Intel Vs AMD

October 5, 2000 4:06 PM

There's a good overview of the Intel - AMD battle of the past year on CNN. They look at the various decisions by Intel that made AMD get a larger chunk of the desktop market, but also the decisions by AMD that made Athlon a far superior product compared to their previous efforts. Of course Intel is still a much larger company but there have been quite some problems lately.

The P4 is a more sophisticated processor than the Athlon, Krewell says. But he notes the new P4 design may actually run some of today's applications more slowly than an equivalent PIII. It is designed to excel at tasks such as streaming media, he says.
Although a new P4 may not outrun an equivalent PIII, its architecture is designed to scale to much higher speeds, which should help make up the difference, McCarron says. Whereas the PIII is running out of steam at 1 GHz, the first-generation P4 should go beyond 2 GHz easily, he says.

Maarten Goldstein

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Saeger

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October 5, 2000 4:18 PM

This is going to get ugly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
  
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  October 5, 2000 4:18 PM
  
  he Great Seer is dead.
  - The Great Seer
    
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    October 5, 2000 4:52 PM
    
    On the contrary, my rotting existentialist friend!
    
    The Great Seer is alive and well and must report that it is in fact VIA that will dominate the chip sector in a few short Earth years. Cyrix, once laughed at, is hailed as the grandfather of a great lineage of bitcrunchers to come! For it was VIA who pissed off the US Government by releasing the potential of the quanta before its time!
    
    Shocking, but true! :)