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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (53401)	11/17/2000 2:00:14 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

PMS, re the P4, there will be a flood of benchmarks comparing it to the PIII and Athlon starting Monday. Stuff like floating point, integer, games like Quake, etc., etc. Couple of new things about the P4: it has a very long pipeline, which makes it easier to get to higher clock speeds, hence the 1.4 and 1.5 GHz out of the chute. 2.0 GHz is expected as early as mid next year. The negative of this is that the number of instructions per clock cycle may be lower. It is "stuck" with Rambus RDRAM memory right now, which is great for bandwidth, but expensive and not in mass production like SDRAM. SDRAM and DDRSDRAM will be available with P4 next year. The P4 computers will be more expensive to start with (nothing new there for a new processor). What specifically did you want to know? Tony