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To: Paul Engel who wrote (133936)	5/1/2001 6:21:37 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 186894

Paul, We just discussed that - new drivers - and new software - bring the Pentium 4 ABOVE the AthWiper performance. Whatever those benchmarks were, they were tied to graphics. The current versions of P4 will never run an Excel spreadsheet as fast as Athlon. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (133936)	5/1/2001 6:49:17 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Here is the latest. We are down to 50% and they are OpenGL graphics tests. I used to work with the guy who wrote ViewPerf. You shouldn't trust the Unnatural Inquirer. Earlier we linked to a story at ZDNet claiming that P4s with the new Nvidia 12.0 drivers produced 90% better OpenGL performance, as shown by SpecViewPerf. We’ve tried them out ourselves, and got results closer to 50%: changing from Detonator3 to v12.0 with our 1.4GHz P4 and an old MX card drove the SVP Awadvs-04 score from 40.65 to 60.36, while DX-06 went from 14.39 to 21.76! And ZDNet was wrong to say gaming performance wasn’t affected: Our 3DMark2001 score went from 1785 (on an MX card, remember) to 1978, and the Q3A framerate skyrocketed 30% from 135.5 all the way to 175.2!!! I can’t find these drivers at Nvidia’s website, but you can download them from ZDNet here. (04/30/2001) all-about-pc.de!

To: Paul Engel who wrote (133936)	5/1/2001 8:52:25 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

It's over for AMD? They can't make enough chips to supply demand... UMC to Make Processors for Advanced Micro, Web Site Says By Alan Patterson Taipei, May 2 (Bloomberg) -- United Microelectronics Corp., the second-largest chipmaker on a contract basis, said it will make processors for Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which has more orders than it is able to meet with its own chip factories, the CTech Web site reported, citing UMC President Peter Chang. AMD, the second-largest processor maker after Intel Corp., has increased its share of the market to about 18 percent and has given UMC one of its first contracts to make these high-margin chips that perform most of the computing functions in a personal computer, according to the Web site operated by Taiwan's largest newspaper. UMC has also received a contract from Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. to make digital signal processors, which are used to perform the main functions of mobile phones and other consumer electronic products, the report said. UMC said at its first-quarter earnings announcement on April 30 that it will make processors for Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the largest makers of servers, or computers that manage corporate networks and Web sites. (CTech 05/02) To view the Web site report, see ctech.com.tw