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To: kash johal who wrote (70558)9/1/1999 2:14:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574005
 
Re: "Intel was supposed to show off coppermine and camino benchmarks at IDF. Did they, or was it just foils again."

I was unaware that Intel was planning to announce benchmarks. Where did you hear this? In any event, I don't think they released any benchmarks of any kind. In the absence of live Coppermine demos (oops they did do a live 800MHz demo without cooling of any kind didn't they!) nevertheless the Coppermine is not available at this time so if you want to call it a foil (that was demonstrated live before an audience) then I offer no argument. In addition the Merced could also be called a foil at this point. It will not be in production any time soon and todays presentation of working systems was not a product introduction (Does that differ from the Athlon phantom introductions?). It does though show that Merced pre-production silicon is alive and well into the debug cycle. It makes the claims of mid 2000 production much more believable than they were a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn't you agree?

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