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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (114443)	6/5/2000 6:32:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1572673

Re: "I frequency jumps will come when they are needed. The lower voltage and lower power consumption suggest there is room for them in the new iteration of the core." You're just acting as AMD's apologist. There were many reasons posted here why AMD should come out with a 1.1GHz TBird and now that they didn't you guys are working just as hard explaining why there aren't any. So Cu offers no frequency boost and the minor performance boost gained by on-die L2 is not nearly as great as everyone had already taken for granted. They weren't enough to offer a clear lead over that old 1995 P6 core with less cache. In short, the claims of superior design and superior Cu process just don't stand up now that the facts come out. They sure were superior before the announcement when you guys could let your imaginations run wild. Re: "You still can't buy a 1 GHz Piii" You can post this as many times as you want but it won't make it true. Intel is shipping GHz PIIIs in volumes very similar to AMDs GHz Athlons. The fact that you only see Athlons available in retail stores just tells you all GHz PIIIs go to business or direct sales. I don't see any GHz Athlons in the business world, does that mean AMD isn't shipping any or does it just mean you're looking in the wrong place? EP