Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 17:37:08 11/12/01
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On November 12, 2001 at 17:16:55, Dan Andersson wrote: >Yes I did read that article and those that largely discredited it (there is a >grain of thuth in it, but nothing to do with the actual CPU), go to vans >hardware for example. But I must point to the main misunderstanding. I should >have made that clear from the start. The Athlon chips are designed to run at a >higher temperature than the P4 and they have a much higher tolerance for heat. >The fact that a chip runs hotter is a design decision not a design flaw. The >Athlon runs hotter and faster (in IPC) than the P4 does. It has fewer known bugs >than the P4 and AFAIK fewer incompatability problems that the P4, since it is an >older and IMO a more well balanced design. The next iteration of both the P4 and >Athlon are the subject of another discussion alltogether. > >MvH Dan Andersson Thanks Dan for your answer, and yes I think the next steps taken with the P4 and the Athlon will make for an interesting discussion when that time comes. Terry
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