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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (53321)	8/30/2001 9:07:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Gopher, <The number is simply a product number that gives the consumer a reasonable idea of what the processor can do.> AMD wants the consumer to compare a model number to a clock speed number. Hence the "ModelHertz" moniker. <I have a bigger issue with Intel selling the P4 without a warning on the box that the MHz does not equate to the "industry standard" of the Pentium. That is more bogus that anything AMD is trying to do here.> The "industry standard" of MHz is millions of clock cycles per second. Intel is using the same standard that has been used ever since the days of the 8086. There is nothing bogus about that. Nor is there anything bogus about Intel deliberately architecting the Pentium 4 for high clock speeds. It's perfectly legitimate to increase actual performance by favoring high clock speeds over IPC. The real problem is the consumer's tendency to equate clock speeds with performance. But AMD's strategy of ModelHertz isn't going to solve the problem; instead, it will only confuse the consumer even more. Tenchusatsu