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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron Mayer who wrote (34886)	7/20/1998 10:31:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572723

Re: "Sure, but was he talking about PowerPC 604e chips? chips.ibm.com I see them working at 350MHz. :-)" How ironic it seems for those of us who have followed the CPU wars for a number of years. The combined genius of IMB, Motorola, and Apple were going to use the newest most advanced design concepts to make a processor for the future, the PPC. It was going to be so new and so advanced that it would completely destroy the x86. The x86 was an old obsolete braindead piece of sit design that couldn't possible compete with such an advanced processor as the PPC. Well here we are 5 years later and the x86 still beats the PPC. So much for the combined genius of IBM/Moto/Apple. The PPC still trails a piece of sit. IBM's own benchmarks. chips.ibm.com Intel's benchmarks intel.com Why doesn't AMD publish SPEC benchmarks?? <gggg>