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Subject: Re: AMD new 2.8 Ghz, but has not yet released the 2.6 Ghz ?

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 15:24:51 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 16:39:56, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>Only if they manage to live that long which increasingly seems unlikely. i
>entirely agree that pound for pound the hammer is a better fighter than the P4
>but by then with 0.09 micron processes, the megahertz gap will be huge enough to
>compensate for that (as is the situation at present!)
>
>rajen
>
>On October 02, 2002 at 09:55:50, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>You're forgetting something. AMD is putting most of it's resources into the
>>Hammer line of CPUs now. This is where the money will be made for AMD.

I've seen a few things run on a Clawhammer system. I can definitely tell you
this. If the P4 is going to compete with it then it's going to have to run
*MUCH* faster than what Intel has planned. If you think AMD will go out of
business before the release of the Hammer cpu line I seriously suggest you stop
smoking whatever it is you're smoking. ;)




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