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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joey Smith who wrote (44508)1/1/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (2) of 1572099
 
Joey, With a 66 Mhz bus the celeron moves to the bottom of the pack and AMD products with 100 Mhz bus will find a price point at or above them? One fine day the celerons will get a 100 Mhz bus, maybe?, maybe not as that will parasitise P-II sales, but Intel may decide that if they are going to lose those sales to AMD chips then they might as well lose them to their own chips and bring a 100 Mhz celeron out for sale?, hard to say as the crowd hits the barrier of diminishing returns where even large CPU speed increments yield only 3-6% increase in overall performance and as a result the difference between all the 400 Mhz and up processors could well be a max of around 20% and that is no reason to mortgage the house when a $200 AMD/Celeron will work 80-90% as fast.
perhaps one fine day AMD will match Intel at speed? and then what will Intel have to keep the barbarians at bay? The flash signature chip? Possibly, as the software people will love it and if they write it into their software that each box needs to have that then AMD and Cyrix etc will be cut off at the pass. All the dongle makers will go broke too.
Or maybe people will not buy it at al?, remember how Lotus shot itself to death with copy protection?

Bill
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