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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (75198)	10/12/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573546

speed alone is not the most important thing in chip performance, and other factors, such as floating-point calculations and graphics acceleration I hate to be predictable and disagree, but exactly what does this mean? Is he talking more accurate floating point or graphics deceleration perhaps (we know Intel has had interesting developments in both these areas!). I think Barrett chose particularly bad examples, because floating point and graphics are all about speed. Or did he say clock speed and get misquoted? If so, it is interesting that Intel is now arguing against pure megahertz measurement. When do they introduce the Athlon-equivalent speed rankings?