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

To: Scumbria who wrote (37700)	9/29/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572786

Re: "Well said. I guess we will find out the value of information disseminated on this thread, come October 15. " I suspect that AMD will find a way to interpret K7 benchmarks to confirm their claim of the "fastest x86 processor". However just what does that mean? AMD has never said so how can anyone pin them down. If it is faster on ANY x86 benchmark, mutant alien blaster included, than a currently shipping x86 Intel offering then AMD could boast that their claim was valid. My position is this, regardless of AMD's claims, the K7 will not be the fastest x86 processor at the time it actually ships to vendors in production volumes, as measured by industry standard benchmarks for workstation/server class machines. EP