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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (64371)	7/11/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, hardly much faster. More like the same integer performance at equivalent MHZ, and supposedly incrementally faster for floating point. But this remains to be seen. Or course, Cyrix and AMD (and Rise and IDT) have cloned the instruction set. But none to date have been able to match (or even come close to) FPU performance, or MHZ performance (yes, those lame process engineers again<ggg>). But it has taken basically 18 years for any company to even come close to matching the overall specs of INTCs leading edge CPU, and it still remains to be seen if AMD can really come through with the K7. The K5 and K6 have fallen short. But, knowing Dirk Meyer and crew, I'd say this is AMDs best shot yet. Of course, having nowhere near the fab capacity to sate the demand for a truly successful product leaves AMD in a somewhat difficult position, but thats another discussion.