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

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 20:15:49 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 18:24:51, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>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. ;)

I think if you believe for one second the largest CPU manufacturer in the world
is going to let a company with 2 or 3 fabs take over it's business, you're
smoking something too.  ;)



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