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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (26342)12/2/1997 2:26:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (2) of 1572753
 
Re: "The fact is, any semi company can design an FET with any Idsat they like, if they can come up with a thermal scheme to keep the chip from self-destructing. Intel chose the quick and dirty approach of max-ing out Idsat at the expense of requiring the expensive SLOT 1 packaging. Then they called SLOT 1 a feature rather than a kluge, and the majority of techno-lemmings believed them."

If the argument that you and Ali are making is correct (that the K6 is effectively working harder/more effectively at a given clock speed than the chip inside a Pentium II cartridge) then it stands to reason (since PII remains faster at a given clock than K6) that the PII derives *all* of its performance advantage from the Slot 1 architecture (L2, dual independent bus, thermal performance, etc.). If this is in fact the case, then the cartridge is probably well worth the extra cost.

In any case, it seems that the cartridge makes adequate comparisons of process technology between the PII and K6 almost impossible. To be honest , I'm beginning to think that at a high level of process technology (which both AMD and Intel possess) the difference between a good process and a great process is not measured in clock speed, but in the ability to get good yields of high end (high clock) chips.

Things will get interesting when AMD rolls out K7 and both companies are using the thermal brick.

Kevin
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