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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (88036)9/9/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
<I didn't realize that one has to distinguish between "generations" rather than simply look at contemporary products.>

AMD is blaring to the whole world that the Athlon is "seventh-generation technology." Yet if you consider that AMD's "sixth-generation technology" has fallen far behind Intel's own "sixth-generation technology," you can understand how AMD is playing relativism here.

In other words, what could be considered a 7 on AMD's scale of generations could be considered a 6.5 on Intel's scale. That's still good enough to launch AMD out of bottom-feeder status, but not enough to claim a huge lead of innovation over Intel.

Tenchusatsu



To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (88036)9/9/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
Randy - Re: "case maybe AMD has been somewhat effective in their marketing since I thought that their consumer-level chips have spec'ed ahead of those of Intel's for more than a year now"

You thought wrong.

Only in AMD's mind.

Before the AthLATE, every AMD chip has been inferior to Intel CPUs.

Paul


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