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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AB who wrote (26008)	4/18/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: AB	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 33344

After reading Tom's recent CPU benchmarks, I would like to ask the following question; where in the world does NSM get off calling a MII300 the equivalent of a PII300 even based on Winstone numbers alone? It's not even equal to a PII266! And of course, let's not even talk about FPU, MMX, etc. sysdoc.pair.com Based on the numbers, it looks like the PII has made up the performance edge that the MII has over the P54/P55 and a 233 MHz MII is roughly equal to a 233 MHz PII. It looks like NSM is using the MII name, but using the number to compare to a 300 MHz K6 or a theoretical 300 MHz P55; they aren't seriously trying to compare it to a 300 MHz PII, are they? Given the discrepancies in the benchmark results, they might as well call it a MII500! Remember also that in order to sell this chip, some OEM has to go along with this labelling approach as well. Seems to me that calling a 233/66MHz MII the equivalent of a 233 MHz PII is not such a terrible thing. Don't get me wrong; I haven't gone over to the dark side, yet, as I still own 3K shares of NSM, and I have made some decent pocket change by buying and selling INTC puts, but if this is the best NSM can do, ie BS marketing mumbo jumbo, then.... Hoping someone has a good answer, Anthony PS any answer that mentions overclocking or the alignment of the sun and the moon, etc. doesn't count, and yes I do know that there is a lot more to NSM than the CYRX division