Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 01:26:08 10/03/02
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On October 02, 2002 at 23:15:49, Slater Wold wrote: >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. ;) Intel is kind enough to help AMD with this when they charge the prises they do for the PIV's :) My impression is that most private buyers don't even consider Intel when they go shopping, they go with bang for the buck and that rules out Intel. The 20% extra you may get in a handful of multi media progs just doesn't make up for the 10% you lose in all the non-SSE optimized programs. -S.
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