Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Statux wrote:
>
> > Well AMD's, etc will only ever be clones.. people need to face the music
>
> You might think so, but AMD is doing their thing fairly well. Athlons are
> cheaper than PIII's, and usually perform better. Notice that Athlons are
> available at higher clock speeds, and Intel is having major problems both
> with it's current processor line and it's 64 bit processors. (AFAIK, AMD
> is still on track for it's Hammer 64 bit processors).
>
> Just because you're a clone doesn't mean you can't have a superior
> product.
Tom's hardware did a good job explaining the differeces in the archectures.
There are significant differences. To back up Gordon's comment I think it is
interesting that AMD is getting the highspeeds and hav not even begun
shipping the .18 micron versions yet and the pentium is having trouble even
at that trace width. Tom's said that this would occur six months ago. What
I remember most is the multiple pipes into the memory subsystem from each of
the processor cores on the chip and the fact that the pentium has to share
the same bus.
Most was over my head but AMD is in good shape to continue with newer faster
revisions with the architecture and the peintium is about maxed out.
Bret
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