Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (118672)	11/20/2000 10:41:57 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "What is this obsession you have with SPEC? Intel has devoted massive resources into optimizing SPEC on their compilers and hardware. Everyone knows that, and it is making SPEC into a useless benchmark. Why don't you discuss some real world benchmarks?" This excuse is as lame as Al Gore's patriotism. The fact is that SPEC is the only benchmark accepted by the entire industry and you know it. Everybody publishes their SPEC scores. Intel, Alpha, HP, IBM, SPARC and MIPS. Even AMD posts the FP score but is too ashamed to post their Integer score. You don't like it simply because it shows what Intel processors can do when the code is optimized. You trot out that old worn out story that Intel's compilers are only designed for producing good SPEC scores because it's the only possible excuse you can come up with. You have no proof whatsoever but you're desperate because you blew it so bad in your bashing of the P4, so what do you have to lose? EP