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

To: vince doran who wrote (74286)	10/6/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1573081

Vince, <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? > Don't have any answers for you on the DDR front but the launch of this product is expected to be in Q1. Whatever it is I think Athlon's lead is pretty solid so OEMs can afford to go with more mainstream platforms such as PC133 and still do very well. <When you say "something even better", what do you have in mind?> Let's see, there are two options here. Either it gotto be larger or it gotto have better access latencies. The rumors are not strong enough for me to put this on this thread but I don't mind chatting in private, if you want to continue. <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? > I don't know. <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).> We are in agreement here. Chuck