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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42431)11/30/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (3) of 1573249
 
Tench, <By the way, Herr Uberclockermeister also predicted before the release of the Pentium II that AMD's K6 will be faster clock-for-clock. That was back in the spring of 1997. This prediction has yet to be fulfilled.>
And he was damn right. The K6-200 beat the crap out of
Pentium-Pro-200 at that time in any business benchmarks.
Check your facts.

<(But hey, AMD sure has a great price/performance ratio, no?)>
Sure AMD has. No wander. And will have.

<7) A proven record for reliability and availability>
Here we are again, you never learn.
Sure, the FDIV-bug was reliably reproduceable.
The FIST flag error (or whatever) was also readily
avalable. The F00F deadlock is still available
in many P5 computers, MMX included...
The Xeon ECC contention was more obscure,
I am ready to agree here.

<1) Getting to 0.18 micron process first>
Who cares if all the FET advantages will be
eaten up by sloppy obsolete interconnects.
Instead of gaining the theoretical 2X,
you must be lucky to get 40% speed increase.

<2) Possessing KNI which will be superior to 3D-Now>
Will it be? Or "make it so"?

<5) Willamette (and maybe Deerfield>...
Are we supposed to cream out pants right now?
"Slow train is coming!" Remember that motto
of Intelfelons? It is coming, and still coming,
and market share are coming out, and out of
Intel...


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