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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 214.90-0.1%Dec 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: Scumbria who wrote (5723)8/19/2000 1:44:14 PM
From: minnow68Read Replies (2) of 275872
 
Scumbria,

You wrote "AMD seems to have opened up quite a bit of headroom with their massive drops in 1GHz pricing. I wonder if they will do a 60C 1.5GHz processor for $1000, now that Intel has set the bad engineering precedent"

I believe even the new 1.1 Ghz Athlon is within spec at 90 degress C. Dropping to 60 C could very well get a significant number of chips running at 1.5 Ghz.

Did you notice that early this year Intel dropped the guarantee on most of their processors from 1-3 years to 30 days? You have described Intel as reaching into the bag of tricks to increase processor speed. And I agree with this. One of the side effects of many of the tricks is to reduce processor life. Therefore, Intel reduced guaranteed life of the processor. But is it so bad that Intel needed to only guarantee their product for only 30 days!?!? Well, just look at the 1.13 Ghz Pentium IIIs. Several of them being reviewed reached the end of their lives at rated speed when they were within the first 100 hours of operation.

I believe the fastest Pentium III specified to run at 80 degrees C is the 866. Anything faster than that appears to have reached pretty deeply into the bag of tricks, and, IMVHO, is a potentially short life processor. Of course, this is nothing more than taking Intel at their word that Intel processors only work for 30 days<G>.

Mike
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