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

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (114461)	6/5/2000 8:24:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

Re: "Why do you suspect AMD didn't use a 256k data path to the cache?" I assume you mean 256 bit data path. I don't know what they used. Maybe it is 256 bits. My point has simply been that many a time the PIII has been referred to as an old tired design that is out dated by the new superior K7x and AMD's new process has been referred to as newer and more state of the art than Intel's Al process. Well here we are after 3 years and 8 months and the new superior design on the new superior process has no clear advantage whatsoever. It wins some benchmarks (using AMD's results) and loses some benchmarks going head to head with CuMine. After all the hype of how great Copper is and how great TBird was going to perform with the added L2 and "other surprises" we end up with no frequency boost and only a slight performance increase. Nothing anywheres near what the hypesters promised. EP