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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 210.80-4.8%3:59 PM EST

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To: Elmer who wrote (70999)2/8/2002 12:41:52 AM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Elmer,

Back during the Rambus debates, my opinion was that Timna had a potential of taking the best advantage of Rambus memory, because of the integrated memory controller. The combination of serial interface 16 bit, feeding a more of a parallel 64bit FSB in the traditional implementation is basically the worst of both worlds. I believe that Timna had a potential of good memory performance (assuming it was not intentionally crippled).

I don't know about clock speeds, but somehow I have serious doubt that Timna matched or exceeded Coppermine. It seems that a big chunk of the company (Intel) was force-marched to get Coppermine to 1 GHz and to believe that the team in Israel did it with ease, while carrying additional baggage on CPU die, is hard to believe.

Joe
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