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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.80+1.7%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: Petz who wrote (32741)3/22/2001 11:49:01 AM
From: stribe30Read Replies (3) of 275872
 
AMD's 1.3-GHz Athlon Bests Fastest Pentiums

John; More positive feedback from another reviewer, this one is a more mainstream one.
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Advanced Micro Devices launches its 1.3-GHz Athlon processor today, and
tests of the first systems available demonstrate a burst of speed that in
many cases surpasses Intel's 1.5-GHz Pentium 4.

While AMD's flagship chip still trails Intel's 1.5-GHz Pentium 4 in terms of
raw megahertz, exclusive PC World Test Center evaluations show systems
using the AMD processor paired with double data rate memory easily
outperform comparable systems with the P4 and Rambus (RDRAM)
memory in most tests. The first systems running AMD's 1.2-GHz Athlon and
DDR also outperformed P4 systems on most benchmarks, with the major
exception being video encoding tasks where the Pentium 4 tends to shine.

The 1.3-GHz Athlon is the first speed increase for the chip since last
October. Early systems were tested and are available now from several
smaller vendors, including Polywell, Tangent Computer, and MicroExpress.
Systems will also be available from majors such as Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, and Micron as well.

pcworld.com
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