Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

It's also accurate to say that this year's IPF performs worse than last decade's pentium 2s.

Its not accurate at all. IA-32 EL allows an I2/1.5 to
execute x86 code at greater peformance than a 1.6
GHz Xeon which in turn is faster than any Pentium 2
by a considerable amount.