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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (44458)	1/1/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571935

Pal, you do not understand few basic things. First is the meaning of words prefixed with "will". Have you ever been taught about "future tense"? Second, the phrase "up to 2MB", when used within salesperson or marketing context, usually means that the exact value is not available, only 512k maybe. If you read on, you may find something like "..processors as they become available in 1999". Judging by pricewatch, Intel is having difficulties producing 1-MB L2 at 450MHz. This is a fact. The message I was trying to send you is that your famous Intel technology is having a ceiling at 450 MHz for their proprietary L2 "full-speed" cache. You just can't go to a "full speed" L2 cache for 1-GHz processors. Also note: "At the same time, Compaq is readying for a January announcement its Alpha DS20 server, as well as a long-awaited XP 1000 workstation."