hmaly, "what percentage of people need a 2 ghz computer"
It does not matter how many. What does matter that the
particular segment holds a performance crown. It makes
people feel like belonging to the elite class even
if they own a crappy-performing P4-1400/SDRAM, and
this fact alone allows for much higher CPU prices
for _ALL SEGMENTS_.
"will have a 40% IPC advantage over P4, which should be enough to get that clear undisputed lead in IPC."
We will need to see this "undisputed lead". I have my
opinion that it will barely maintain a parity in
performance with Intel offerings.
"but doesn't the 20-25% IPC improvement in Hammer disprove that statement."
See above.
"Wouldn't the cpu designers follow big iron in designing more parallelism in, and 2 cores as well as bigger caches"
Two cores would require a bigger die too, would not they?
"Tbird should win in the marketplace, because it can be produced cheaper and has better price/performance."
Maybe it should, but it is not what is happening.
And again, very few here can count well, so the
price/performance ratio gets never properly calculated
in minds of most PC buyers.
"I think AMD small die theory, isn't so much about die size as much as about efficiency"
I found it strange that nobody picked up on my thoughts
about inherent die size limitations and therefore
about limited shrink scalability...
"that when computers become commoditsized.."
This seems to be again a common fallacy. We have not
seen any evidence that the commodization is happening.
Quite to the contrary, former CPU design houses are
going belly up, only two remains standing in the x-86
PC segment, out of 5-6 in the past (correct me please
on this number).
Regards,
- Ali |
