Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:10:50 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 19:01:14, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 14, 2000 at 17:51:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>Bob, please. I know there are things that are not worth the trouble to them. >>>Does Cray only make computers with GaAs processors? >>No. Wrong company. Seymour left cray to make the cray-3 using gallium. Cray >>research has stuck with traditional silicon. Cray computers (Seymour's old >>company) went belly-up a year or so before he was killed in a car crash. He >>delivered 1/4 of one machine to NCAR. > >Oh. Hmmm. I dunno. Maybe GaAs reacts differently to temperature. > >>Anything is possible. However, if it were stable at 1ghz I suspect they would >>be selling it at 1ghz (AMD) rather than 750?? > >No, it's all marketing right now. AMD can make as many processors as they want >at whatever clock speed they want. It's no coincidence that the Athlon is >running at 850MHz and the Pentium III is at 800MHz. =) > >-Tom It does seem that every time Intel's best released product goes up 50 MHz to match AMD, AMD raises theirs by another 50 MHz to retake a lead. This has happened a few times in a row now. Dave
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