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

To: eplace who wrote (87505)	1/16/2000 3:52:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572452

Re: "I questioned Elmer on his statement that Intel had the momentum now, and I pointed out that they had neither in stock movement or processor speed, then he changes the subject. " I disagree with your accusation but I will satisfy you anyway. #1 Undoubtedly you will carefully pick a time frame where AMD shows greater momentum. I could do the same with Intel so why bother to play that game? #2. I believe the actual question was regarding performance but I don't have it in front of me at the moment. Either way Intel trailed AMD upon Athlon's introduction. At this point in time AMD has now caught CuMine from behind and both offer equal speeds. As for performance, it is quite clear that Athlon lead Intel's top of the line processors in all benchmarks upon Athlon's introduction. Now, at the very least Intel has the lead in many of those exact same benchmarks. Some argue they lead in most, some argue Athlon leads in most but nobody claims Athlon leads in ALL as they did upon introduction. Going from none to many, if not most, is a clear sign of momentum on Intel's part. Going from behind in frequency to parity is a clear sign of momentum on Intel's part. Therefore I say your claim that Athlon has the momentum in performance is wrong. You may disagree with me but I have not evaded your questions. Now let me ask you a question or two. Can you explain how Intel could ship a record number of processors if they had a yield problem? I am not accusing you of making this claim, I'm just asking you to comment on the theory presented by others. Can you comment on the theory that Intel rewards those companies that remain faithful to Intel and punishes those who stray from the fold, in light of Gateway's complaints of insufficient supply from Intel, yet no such complaints from Compaq, HP or IBM? EP