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Subject: Re: the empire strikes back

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 03:05:42 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 05:45:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.

Limited? I require proof to accept such a statement. Have you seen such proof or
are you guessing?

I know what you are saying has been alleged in many places on the internet, but
I have yet to read an explanation (much less see a proof) of how that can be so.
It's counter-intuitive and therefore requires compelling evidence.

On the other hand, I surely wouldn't understand the proof (one way or the other)
even if I saw it ;-) Besides, the issue may be one of practicality rather than
"proof". A good businessman follows the path that leads to the most money.

>
>--
>GCP



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