Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:30:37 01/08/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 16:00:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 07, 2002 at 12:53:17, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>i'm afraid that amd may lose all the goodwill they have earned so far unless >>they get their act together real soon > >Funny, I've been (and still am) thinking the same of Intel >for quite a while. > >The P4 is garbage from a technical point of view, and >their current Itaniums seem to be too, based on the benchmarks >we have seen so far. Their only hope is to keep pushing up >the clockspeed as high as they can, but the design has limits >*somewhere*, as the original P3 at 1.13Ghz showed (totall recall >due to instabily). > >When are they going to come with a _new_ CPU with a design >that is _better_ than that of the Pentium Pro? Uhh, you seem a little confused. You apparently understand that the P3 (PPro) is limited to ~1GHz at 0.18 um, and then imply that the P4 is not better? The P4 runs at 2GHz with the same process and I have yet to see a benchmark where the 2GHz P4 doesn't outperform the 1GHz P3. -Tom
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