Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 11:52:06 02/09/04
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On February 09, 2004 at 14:47:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 09, 2004 at 14:23:55, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>... by releasing their processors at the same speed in GHz ? > >Intel has the best fab in the world. How is AMD going to match that? The speed >is largely a function of the process and trace size. Intel's fascilities are >better. > that is only half of the truth (at best). AMD decided to concentrate on performance rather than on GHz. So AMD proc perform more instructions per cycle. I think it would be technically possible to release today a 5 GHz proc which performs only one instruction per cycle. The performance would be terrible, but one could claim it runs on 5 GHz. >>As a consumer I can`t understand that. It seems to me that AMD`s problem is the >>heat issue... so the important thing to do when buying an AMD processor is to >>liquid-cool it or get some sort of special (refrigerated) case to build the >>system, if you want to push it to the limit by overclocking ? >> >>I was also looking for a good notebook as I have 2 medical offices now, and >>buying another desktop was not my idea... but I began to search for an AMD >>notebook, and... guess what?! It`s really difficult to find one here (Brazil)... >>there are Toshibas everywhere, from Celeron to Pentium 4, and of course there >>are the new Centrinos with Wi-FI (from Acer too), but they`re extremelly >>expensive here... so the AMD processors rocks for chess, but their marketing >>sucks; I could only find a HP XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz) with DVD/CD-RW and 512 MB RAM. >>Only one model. No other models or options to compare... >> >>Maybe it`s time for AMD to look for an smarter CEO or at least someone to put >>some fire on the market, like Steve Jobs (Apple) or Lee Iacoca (Chrysler) did >>some years ago... > >Intel has already been smoked by AMD with the 64 bit chips. The Itanium is >known as "the Itanic" for a very good reason. It's going to sink. The AMD idea >to keep the same progression of instruction sets and preserve trillions of >dollars worth of software should have been a no-brainer for Intel too. > >However, Intel will come to their senses soon, I think, and make an offering >similar to AMD. If not, AMD could eventually brush away Intel like Microsoft's >devastation of CP/M. S100 board anyone?
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