Process Boy - <You go first. :-)>
Hmm, That doesn't really seem fair because I have absolutely no visibility on Willamette whereas you can at least get a very good idea of the current state of Athlon and use that as a starting point for your guesses :)
But here it goes... I read about the different Motorola processes, the EV6 bus able to scale to 400MHz, DDR SDRAM, possible use of DRDRAM when it matures, Lightning Data Transport, On die cache, two processors on one die, etc. and I think that AMD finally has some decent cards to play with, for so long they have been playing poker with a bad hand, It is pretty much a given that they were at a significant disadvantage with K5 and K6, but now, with the Athlon, they finally have a decent "hand". I think that if Intel executes well and the Willamette design is as good as some are claiming then it will be a tall order for the Athlon to compete but I think that AMD has a lot of "cards" to play and it just might be possible.
Now your turn, I have given you my opinion in good faith, please share yours.
Thanks,
Epinephrine |
