Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 17:39:18 03/06/00
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On March 06, 2000 at 11:46:05, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. Having worked at Intel for a while last year, I would guess that someone did a two-year study and wrote a white paper to the effect that it is less confusing that way, and no matter how hard you laugh at it, they will stick with it. >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. The more the merrier. The 800 Mhz processor will get considerably cheaper now, and maybe I won't have to settle for a 650. Much as I'd like to have a 1GHz with the someday-to-be-released 8 MB of on-chip cache, my wallet will be happier with a slightly slower chess program. kp
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