Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 08:46:05 03/06/00
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On March 06, 2000 at 10:12:58, Albert Silver wrote: >On March 05, 2000 at 22:31:01, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>Of course it is only a handful, to claim bragging rights, but it won't be long >>before they will be available in quantity. See the article (if you're >>interested), here: >> >>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000305/bs/intel_amd_2.html >> >>kp > >Bragging rights or not, it is still quite something to see them out on the >market independently of the quantity. There's a significant difference between >demonstrating a chip and putting themselves on the limb to sell it. > >I disagree with the comment though that we will refer to older slower chips in >terms fractions of gigahertz. It is possible that some sellers will do so in >order to explain differences in speed more clearly to less knowledgeable users >(i.e. it might be easier to understand that one unit is 1.2 Ghz and the other is >0.5 Ghz as opposed to 1.2 Ghz and 500 Mhz), but I haven't seen this happen in >terms of memory so don't expect it to happen here either. My eyes will really >pop if I ever hear someone talk about my antiquated Apple II as having 0.064 Mb >of memory... :-) Intel wants us to refer to its 1.5GHz part as something absolutely absurd like "1GHz/500" (I can't remember exactly). This is somehow supposed to avoid confusion. Whatever. The rumor has been that AMD can make as many GHz Athlons as it wants. They've just been waiting a few months for Intel to catch up. Looks like this is true... notice that they started shipping their part only a few days before Intel was rumored to announce the GHz CuMine. -Tom
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