Replies to post #26957 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mas]

I would prefer if you were more accurate than nice. AMD have just ensured that they maintain the x86 status quo going forward having already produced and selling hardware on this future x86 direction. Intel have been forced to produce a crude duplicating transistor copy (Prescott) which has
doubled register/cache latencies and 50% greater pipeline length to achieve this and which often results in as much as 20% performance degradation vis a vis its predecessor even though cache is doubled. Sure Prescott/Nocana has iAMD64 but at what price ? Will it ever catch up in all-round performance ?

I thought the above would be 'obvious' to you too, ah well back to my own thread. :-)))

[Not a Short]

fwiw Semi, I thought your message made sense and had an OK tone.

I doubt AMD is in as bad a shape as Apple but I enjoyed the post anyway.

[dougSF30]

Back to my own thread.

Oh, the loss!

Doug