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To: Petz who wrote (56801)	10/1/2001 5:42:21 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Maybe Athlon XP is extra fast running XP?" Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will call its upcoming desktop processor the Athlon XP in what seems to be an odd marketing coincidence. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD next month will release a 1.5GHz Athlon desktop processor. Unlike current chips that merely go by the name "Athlon," the new chip and its successors will carry the XP suffix, similar to Windows XP, the name of Microsoft's next operating system. Although the chip's XP designation appears to have been inspired by Microsoft, that's not the case, sources say. Instead, AMD will adopt the new brand as part of a campaign to differentiate its chips from competing products from Intel ... The XP designation, sources say, is an unfortunate coincidence. In AMD's case, the letters XP stand for extra performance. In Windows XP, the XP stands for experience. AMD apparently had been contemplating the branding scheme at the time Microsoft announced the software. news.cnet.com LOL ... would you believe... Gottfried

To: Petz who wrote (56801)	10/1/2001 5:57:21 PM
From: porn_start878	Respond to of 275872

The Athlon MP's seemed to be 200-300 MHz faster than the TBird and I think the disparity widens at higher F's I think quantispeed is nothing more than a conservative P4-based rating. The main reason why PRating left a bad taste in people's mind is cyrix and its unrealistic PRating. XP is hardly the equivalent of a 200-300MHz faster TBird. hardocp.com XP will have great success if AMD achieves to ramp it's clockspeed to what it should be : 20-22% higher than TBird's. It took AMD about 5-6 month to unlock to potential clockspeed of the TBird, A4 is here since mid-May (4.5 months) and XP launch mid-october. I expect it to reach 1.733GHz by the end of the year on .18u. After that I whish for AMD that they convert to .13 as quickly as they did for .18u, or they'll get crushed by Northwoods. They need a 2GHz+ chip to counter it until Barton and Hammer. Max