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

To: Maxwell who wrote (37458)	9/25/1998 6:48:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572209

Time to Upgrade AMD? With the upcoming K6-2-380 and K6-2-400 by end of October AMD has achieved a milestone in catching up with Intel. It was Yousef and Kumar who have said that yield on 350MHz was no good and AMD will never be able to introduce the 400MHz before Christmas. Well these amateurs are wrong. AMD K6-2-400MHz with 3DNOW will be the best selling Christmas gift. Last month the best selling PC was HP K6-2-300. AMD is going for the KILL on KNI. No one will want to buy a Katmai-450MHz for $500+ in Q1 when the K6-2-450MHz with 3DNOW is sitting next to it selling for half the price. Maxwell

To: Maxwell who wrote (37458)	9/25/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572209

Re: "You sound like a desperate woman or man. You don't think before you talk. Perhaps you should wait till October 15 to reply to me." Desperate? If I were desperate I would be making up hype. Just like you. Regarding your phoney claim that AMD once held the title of "Worlds Fastest CPU": As a historic point, the only time an x86 processor held that title was for a couple of weeks when Intel intro'd the Pentium Pro. The PPro held higher Specint95(not FPU) marks then the available Alpha, but only for about 2-3 weeks when DEC brought out a higher speed grade. AMD has never been in the game. Currently the Xeon is near the top of shipping processors, within a couple of percent. The 21264 certainly posts much higher benchmarks, at a huge price premium ($+50,000?), but it still isn't available. To my knowledge, AMD has never been willing to post Spec numbers. Wonder why? EP