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Subject: Re: What is the next of Athlon 1.4?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:23:50 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 21:20:10, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>From some old posts of last week, I have known that Athlon 1.4 still overcomes
>Intel4 2GHz for chess applications. It seems be the best choice for me. I will
>take one soon. In one hand, I feel unhappy because there is not any new breaking
>technology (for chess), but in the other hand, I feel happy because I will save
>more money for buying the best one (Athlon is much cheeper than the lastest
>Intel, I guess we could be safe to ignore Intel for around 6-8 months - the time
>need for releasing new processor and reducing its price into acceptable one).
>
>However, before going out to buy Athlon, I am curious if AMD is planing to
>release any new processor. Does anybody know about it? Is it worth to wait few
>months (1-3 months) for new one? Any suggestion?

The AMD 1.53Ghz should be out in 1-3 months.  I cannot give an exact day, but I
am confident, in 1-3 months.  :)

Is 130mhz worth waiting for?  That's up to you!


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