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: Paul Engel who wrote (119443)	11/28/2000 1:58:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

*Another recount - Tom's fourth* article on Pentium 4:** tomshardware.com Seems like Tom is stuck between condemning Pentium 4 for its less-than-stellar performance on current benchmarks, and praising Pentium 4 for its potential on future benchmarks. My guess is that the AMDroids, both the knowledgeable ones and the ones who think they're knowledgeable are working overtime to try and influence Herr Uberclockermeister. By the way, here's a nice quote from the article: I have tested the Athlon-optimized code from Alexander Goodrich last night (November 28, 2000, 12:35 AM) and so far Athlon is not able to surpass Pentium 4 with Athlon-optimized x87 FPU code and the 3DNow!-optimized code is way slower than the Pentium 4 double-precision SSE2-optimized one. This is not the last word yet, because Alexander is still working hard on further optimizations. However, even if Athlon should end up losing this contest it doesn't mean that Pentium 4 is the better processor. As I already said, the FlasK-issue was less of a comparison between Athlon and Pentium 4. It was more of an example to show what is actually possible. The actual software world out there looks a lot different. Sudden optimizations for certain processors simply don't happen in the real world. As long as current applications don't get replaced by new ones, Athlon is still ahead of Pentium 4 in the majority of situations. Tenchusatsu