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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (115394)6/11/2000 12:57:00 AM
From: crazyoldman  Read Replies (1) of 1576960
 
Hello Elmer,

Re: Athlon was supposed to be a 7th generation processor and it lost most benchmarks to Intel's old antiquated 6th generation processors.

You really don't understand the "benchmarking game" and how it's played? How long have you been around this stuff?

Will willy have to rely on the "benchmarking game" also? Time may be running out for that strategy, lots of respect starting to gather around AMD, now that OEMs are finding it's a reliable supplier of processors.

BTW, I checked Best Buy the other day, the salesman said he'd personally sold several 1 GHz Athlons...most customers were buying in one of two segments: (1) 750-900 MHz machines or (2) bargin basement machines. They had Athlon systems from 750 MHz, 800 MHz, 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 950 MHz, and 1 GHz for sale. He said they were selling a lot of Athlon systems. Highest PIII was a 750 MHz but it was the only one.

He also said he never seen a 1 GHz PIII yet. Why is that? Haven't those been released already?

He also said one other thing I found interesting, that is that the public is more frequency oriented when purchasing than processor brand oriented, looks like that "Intel Inside" stuff didn't stick in consumer's heads too long.

CrazyMan
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