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To: Dan3 who wrote (52552)	8/27/2001 12:04:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"Why AMD marketing can't figure out that they have to label a chip that performs as well as P4 1.8 with the same performance label as a P4 1.8" Because it is called "Pentium performance rating", and it failed to work in the past. Unfortunately, 20-stage pipeline will always run faster than 10-stage. What was the terrible oversight is pairing a perfect Athlon core with the lame 100-MHz bus and 100-Mhz memory while PC133 was already available, but P-III could not get past 800MHz. This resulted in barely-measurable performance advantages which appeared to be insufficient to claim and secure performance crown, and thus was not compelling enough for tier-1 manufacturers to allocate bigger chunks for AMD-based systems. Athlon was stubbed in the back by ineptness and ignorance of AMD systems platform engineering. - Ali