Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:32:51 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 05:21:18, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On April 11, 2003 at 02:56:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On April 11, 2003 at 00:12:10, Aaron Gordon wrote: >> >>>On April 10, 2003 at 20:37:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On April 10, 2003 at 12:57:10, Aaron Gordon wrote: >>>> >>>>>It's possible because Intel engineered their chips to have high MHz, low >>>>>instructions per cycle. Why? Great for marketing. Most people don't know MHz >>>> >>>>I don't think so. >>>> >>>>It can't be a coincidence that this design principle that's "great for >>>>marketing" also yielded a processor that's faster than the competition on most >>>>benchmarks. >>>> >>>>-Tom >>> >>>I've been over this before, a LOT of pages are corrupt. Tomshardware for one >>>fakes reviews, there's already proof of that. Anandtech still runs the biased >> >>It seems plausible to me that many hardware sites are biased/corrupt. >> >>That said, recent processor reviews have been roughly in line with SPEC CPU >>scores, which are certainly not corrupt. >> >>It just irks me when people suggest that Intel wasted _millions_ of man hours >>and their engineers' integrity "jacking up" their flagchip processor's clock >>speed for marketing reasons instead of performance reasons. >> >>-Tom > >If it makes them X many billion more dollars, who cares? Intel sure doesn't.. as >long as the cash is rolling in. :) Intel has done some underhanded things in its day (e.g., tried to strongarm motherboard vendors to not support the Athlon), made some crap products (Caminogate), pursued some crap ideas (Itanic), but ever since the original Pentium, Intel's x86 chips have been marvels of forward-thinking engineering. I'm not a fan of Intel's but I refuse to believe that the x86 engineers would take their orders from some marketing clowns. Intel may be afraid of releasing relatively low-clocked chips but not afraid enough to prevent them from selling the Pentium M... -Tom
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