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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (52896)3/18/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1574618
 
Elmer,

You didn't ask what tricks AMD pulled to do their 600Mhz demo. You didn't ask if AMD cooled theirs down.

K7 will be shipping at 500+ MHz in a few weeks. There is no reason to believe that they had to pull any tricks beyond jacking the voltage up, to hit 600 MHz.

On the other hand, the huge differential between Xeon shipping speeds and their demo (250 Mhz) clearly indicates that Intel was up to mischief.

When you can put your bias aside and think objectively we can discuss it.

I go to great lengths to keep my engineering judgement objective. As an example, earlier today I suggested that K7 integer performance may be slower clock for clock than Xeon. However, every ounce of engineering sense in me says that the Intel 800MHz/1GHz demos were contrived.

Scumbria
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