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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (56822)4/30/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (3) of 1574483
 
Re: "Considering that Intel's 1 GHz PIII demo was done on .25u material, are you acknowledging then that AMD's process is inherantly inferior to intel's?"

Are you so sure? Wasn't it you who was speculating that it was an early run of an .18u part?

Seems to me a few things here are of note:

1) The AMD demo was clearly using the FPU. We don't know if the Intel demo was or not.

2) The AMD demo was cooled using soon-to-be commercially available technology. We have no info on the Intel demo--all we know is that Intel hid their box behind a curtain. AMD's box was in plain sight.

3) The AMD demo was on .25u. It is unclear what process the Intel part came from.

4) Intel did their demo one month before AMD.

Overall, I have to give AMD the leg up in terms of impressiveness.

That being said, I wonder what speed they were running the L2 at?

Kevin
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