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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 203.14-0.8%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: stak who wrote (50583)8/9/2001 9:00:49 PM
From: Dan3Read Replies (1) of 275872
 
Re: The highest Gigahertz hasn't prompted any meaningful demand.

That was when P4 was relatively new, rare, and expensive - buyers for systems like that are usually not ignorant of what's really going on inside their computers.

But as P4 moves into the $800 price points, it is being considered by buyers who barely know that MHZ has something to do with one of the thingies inside. Explaining per-clock performance to this group is impossible.

Labeling the chips to reflect performance will have to be done, unless 50% of AMD's wafer starts are SOI by Q1, and the SOI parts all run at 3GHZ or higher.

And I don't think either of those is about to happen.
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