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To: Scumbria who wrote (133434)	4/26/2001 6:17:57 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Nonsense. 2GHz is 33% faster than 1.5GHz. The same frequency margin P4 has had over Athlon all along.> Back when 1.5 GHz P4 was introduced, Athlon was at 1.2 GHz, and Intel had an advantage of only 25%. Then AMD closed the gap to 13% until Intel widened it again to 28%. It's been a long time since Intel last led AMD in clock speeds by 33%. Elmer is right, this does represent a widening of the clock speed lead. (How that translates into actual benchmark numbers is another story, unfortunately.) Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (133434)	4/26/2001 7:54:09 PM
From: herb will	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Subject "Nonsense" An uncle was 20 years old when his nephew was born so he was 20 times older than the baby. Now the uncle is 80 years old and the nephew is 60 and the uncle now is only 33% older than his nephew. According to AMD’s conference call the Athlon will reach 1.5 MHz when the P4 reaches 2.0 and the Athlon at 1.33 falls short of the P4 1.5 by 270 MHz thus Intel will have increased it’s MHz lead by 185%. In any event a 33% lead in my book is significant. Question is what will be the lead in the future. Will AMD continue to fall behind? You have been saying all afternoon that the Palomino is fat and slow. So it looks like AMD will fall further and further behind as Intel moves to .13 in the 4th quarter. Also how will the P4 and the Athlon do with Windows XP. It was stated today in the Intel’s Analyst conference that Windows XP and the P4 enhancements were the in the same vein, digital photos, video, voice, communications, etc. and that Intel and Microsoft would have joint advertisings at the coming out of XP. When Jerry was asked about the Athlon and XP all he could say was that what Microsoft told him was they wanted the best processor at the cheapest price, well the cheapest is the Athlon. So it is starting to look like XP will be a winner for the P4 as well. Herb