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chr p

09/27/03 6:46 PM

#14307 RE: wbmw #14305

wbmv,
It's been a prototype shown at Computex that's why I take it more seriously. As to what lies behind it is just a wild guess.
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kpf

09/27/03 7:34 PM

#14309 RE: wbmw #14305

wbmw

Lot's of silly ideas out there.

Totally agree. The net is so ful of it these days. K.


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DDB

09/28/03 4:38 PM

#14324 RE: wbmw #14305

The recent wave of rumours coming from the inquirer looks like FUD, hopes and missing expert knowledge lead to signs for an AMD64 compatible desktop chip coming from Intel in a few months.

It surely won't happen. And even if it would be true - it won't hit AMD that hard since the performance differences of Opteron/AFX/A64 and P4/P4EE will become even better for AMD thanks to the fact that simple things like 64bit address calculations or 64bit integer arithmetic will just need a longer latency at 3.x GHz than at 2.x GHz.

And AMD will still have other advantages thanks to HT and the integrated memory controller.

DB