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To: TechieGuy-alt who wrote (80842)	5/28/2002 3:15:11 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

That's quite a clever statement Elmer as it does not define the reference scales of "hype". You can always point to it regardless of what the actual performance of Hammer is. I'm not playing games with words. The hype is that the Hammer will be the highest performance processor on the planet. That's what AMD has been claiming and that's what I'm referring to. What you accuse me of is actually exactly what AMD has been doing. They have never defined what they mean by hammer performance. They claim 3400+ but they won't say how that is defined. It appears that it is relative to a 3.4GHz TBird and that won't be a world beater. At ship time, my expectation is that it should also beat (by any margin) the fastest available P4 (any core in its class) on at least 75% of the above "common" benches. That is consistent with the hype pumped out by AMD and I think Hammer won't live up to the hype. EP