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Subject: Re: When will there be duel athlons ??

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:48:08 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 13:23:33, ERIQ wrote:

>It seem that if amd is going to make a 1.1 ghz cpu then with
>two of them you could have a 2.2 ghz mashine !! And since crafty clearly
>supports multiprocessors then we could have "deepcrafty" :) At that speed
>maybe it could be top 10 in the world any thoughts.

AMD is still the underdog. It doesn't make sense for them to make an SMP chipset
because very few people would buy it. When the Dresden fab gets into full swing
and the Athlon gains more ground vs. Intel, I expect AMD to enter the server
(SMP) market.

-Tom



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