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

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (82840)	12/13/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571704

Jim, <Remember, 5% is an earth shattering improvement these days and definite reason to upgrade!> Yeah, no kidding. I'm still wondering what we'll all be doing with 1 GHz processors on the desktop, whether it be Coppermine, Athlon, or Willamette. Anyway, when I say that Via's chipsets aren't very good in performance, I'm typically talking about small scales of improvement. The 5% improvement that PC133 SDRAM could bring to the Athlon platform might be offset by a 5% performance penalty by the Via chipset. The only benefit of Via's chipset that I see is the fact that AMD can concentrate more manufacturing capacity on Athlon, a higher-margin product than a chipset. Tenchusatsu