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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (41576)11/16/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (1) of 1572514
 
Scumbria,

>Re: Having multiple execution units is like driving a Porsche during >rush hour. You get home at about the same time you would in a VW >bus, because the maximum speed is mostly irrelevant for normal usage.

Paying extra for an Intel 400/450 is also useless however the market wants high performance CPU's.

When AMD starts shipping 500Mhz plus K7's CPU's that offer better benchmarks than PII's they will sell everyone they can make.

You can argue (correctly) till you are blue in the face that these higher clock speeds don't affect real world performance for most apps.
But consumers want high clock speed CPU's and they want high benchmarks.

Analogy may well be horsepower and top speeds etc. How many of us buy the cheapest/most fuel efficent automobiles even thogh they may be just as effective in getting us from A to B.

The key is that AMD has a very competitive K7 design and has a brand new empty Fab and they have a fairly small die size even in 0.25 micron (same as celery's).

Customers should lap these parts up and the announcement of 2 chip set suppliers is also great news today. With K7's rolling off the assembly lines in Q1 99 you can be sure that AMD's 99 product plans look pretty solid.

Regards,

Kash
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