Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Charles R who wrote (82747)	12/13/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572311

Chuckles - Re: "do you have any historical basis to say this or is this what you are hearing?" I base this on 1. Intel's design efforts which are to reach an acceptable trade off between overall speed (MHz) and power dissipation. 2. Intel's SpeedStep technology - undoubtedly to be a standard in all x86 designs - which will allow CPUs to be used in notebook computers right off the bat, running at lower speeds/lower power under straight battery operation and near-full speed/power under AC power conditions. As you will note, AMD has "wakened" up to SpeedStep technology and will be offering a power saving technology of their own for notebook PCs - although it sounds quite inferior to Intel's SpeedStep. Paul