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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (123418)9/1/2000 12:14:00 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1579917
 
I think most on the Intel thread are still in shell shock over the recall. I think there is an awareness that some of the usual anti-Intel suspects are claiming that P4 could be less than everyone hoped for. The usual response would be to take that lightly, but with the recent Intel performance, folks are a little more cautious. I don't like to speak for other people, and there are certainly those whose confidence is 100% intact.

John,

Since I posted, I came across an article in IBD re Intel and the P4....IBD is not linkable but I want to show you a paragraph from the article:

"So powerful is the (P4) chip that by just touching the screen, an Intel executive at the unveiling (at IDF) sent realistic ripples through a 3-D pond on giant video screens."

Sounds very impressive, huh? There has been a lot of discussion on the AMD threads that the P4 will not be able to pile on the speed because the long pipeline does not work well with the cache as currently designed.

However I wonder with the focus so much on speed, that we are missing or underplaying the significance of other uses for the chip. It well could be that the chip will work best with applications that need more than speed, but rather a lot of power....like video streaming. I mean if push came to shove; other than gamers and computer techies, how is anyone going to know or gauge whether their pc is going at 1GHz or 1.5 GHz? Maybe at those high speeds speed will no longer matter.

ted
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