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

To: stribe30 who wrote (126404)	10/18/2000 11:48:06 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579826

Re: "AMD unveiled its multiprocessor plans yesterday, and judged solely on its technical merits, the Athlon-based SMPs that result ought to cause some late nights at Santa Clara. And not just of a tactical nature, but strategic. If we weren't so nasty and cynical, we'd be tempted to describe it as a technical tour de force that bears all the hallmarks of people who know how to build high bandwidth parallel systems. But judge for yourselves... " Judge for yourselves. That's the point. We were told how superior this architecture was way back when AMD first licensed it. Do you see any superior systems out there? Despite AMD's now disproven claim of a public demo, have you or anyone else ever seen one, except for behind locked doors? Who is cleaning up in the SMP market with their inferior architecture? If EV6 is so superior, how come they can't get it to work? If the P6 bus is so inferior how come they are having so much trouble disabling it so people like me can't run SMP Celeron systems? Why are the world record benchmarks posted by the inferior design while the superior one can't even get out of the starting blocks? I think you need to spend less time reading hype and more time asking "why doesn't it work?" EP