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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (74278)	10/6/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: vince doran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572871

Hi Chuck: What AMD put up yesterday were estimated scores for Athlon 700 running with 266 DDR mem. How soon do you think that setup will be available? The foremost DDR booster I know of is Micron, and their people say early 2000 for 266 DDR. Do you think it will be sooner? Also, where do you think the supporting chipset/mobos will come from? When you say "something even better", what do you have in mind? Doesn't it seem likely that those spec scores from Japan were on an 820 mobo, which the available benchmarks show yeilding improvements which if combinable with the CUmine imps might get to that specINT #? For the specFP, could SIMD optimizations in the benchmark account for that jump, and if so, can AMD do the same? Thanks for your analysis; although I stepped aside to wait out the forum and conference call, I still love the upside with AMD, as long as they can retain at least a small average edge in most benchmarks (and juggle all the other business balls). Vince