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Subject: Re: the empire strikes back

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:45:23 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 05:37:00, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On January 10, 2002 at 03:07:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2002 at 02:59:03, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>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).
>>>
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23593.html
>>
>>Please read what I wrote. I said the _original_ P3.
>
>Please read what you wrote. You said, "..., but the design has limits
>*somewhere*, as the original P3 at 1.13Ghz showed..."

Right. So with smaller process technology, it can go a bit higher,
but it's still limited.

--
GCP



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