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To: Dan3 who wrote (139926)	7/22/2001 8:25:09 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Dan Fly's Over The Cuckoo's Nest !!! "So the desktop Athlon 4 2.1GHZ (1.5 * 1.4GHZ) will go on sale in September, and the Athlon 4 2.25GHZ (1.5 * 1.5GHZ) will be released in October. A number of industry benchmarks could be presented to confirm the accuracy of that rating. It would be reiterated that a 1.6GHZ P4 decodes instructions at a rate of 800MHZ. It could further be pointed out that some of the execution units in Athlon 4 cascade 3 or 4 flip-flops per cycle (you'll have to find out the exact number!) - meaning they are running at 3 or 4 times nominal clock speed and double the new speed rating. It could then be pointed out that parts of the new 2.1GHZ Athlon 4 run at 4.2GHZ internally (or 5.6GHZ or whatever the actual speed is). I hope it will also be announced that a 2.6GHZ chip will be marketed (1.5 * 1.73) in early Q1 of next year."

To: Dan3 who wrote (139926)	7/22/2001 11:48:39 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Look's like you've lost it Dan. Watch out for people in white coats carrying white jackets that have real long arms on them. Maybe those thousands of our own posts have convinced you that AMD is truly invincible. Maybe they are. Dedodedodedodedo.

To: Dan3 who wrote (139926)	7/23/2001 12:29:27 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>So the desktop Athlon 4 2.1GHZ (1.5 * 1.4GHZ) will go on sale in September, and the Athlon 4 2.25GHZ (1.5 * 1.5GHZ) will be released in October. A number of industry benchmarks could be presented to confirm the accuracy of that rating.< Why bother with a confusing PR style system. Wouldn't it be simpler for AMD to call a 1.667 GHz Athlon a 15 GOS (Giga Operations per Second) processor because with 9 execution units it can execute up to nine operations per cycle or 15 billion operations per second at 1.667 GHz, and leave it up to Intel to call their 2.5 GHz P4 a 15 GOS processor because with 6 execution units it can execute up to six operations per cycle or 15 billion operations per second?