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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Barry A. Watzman who wrote (123325)8/30/2000 10:41:28 PM
From: chic_hearne  Read Replies (2) of 1570572
 
Barry,

I have a few problems with your position.

1). I don't buy those benchmarks one bit. In case you didn't notice, the P4 only performs at 60% of what an equally clocked Athlon does. That is way to low. I'm expecting the P4 to be slower than the Athlon, but 40% slower is just too much for me to believe. For the sake of my AMD investment, I hope you are right and those are real benchmarks. I'm thrilled to see a Celeron 600 beating the P4, but it can't be true.

2). The memory benchmark is irrelevent if the DRAM makers are not willing to make DRDRAM. When Intel called their emergency meeting a few months ago, they must have tried very hard to convince the DRAM makers by using every trick in the book. I believe if this memory benchmark is true, they wouldn't have had a problem convincing the DRAM makers to make DRDRAM. Intel was obviously unsuccessful. There isn't going to be quantity of DRDRAM around next year, so these benchmarks don't make one bit of difference to me even if true.

chic
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