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(Post a comment) » AMD Crosses 1GHz Finish LineAs we mentioned last week, both AMD
and Intel
are shoveling coal into the furnace in the race to 1GHz. Coming as no surprise,
AMD today reached a computer industry milestone, announcing commencement of
shipments of 1GHz Athlon processors.
The first commercially available systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon
processor will be available from Compaq
and Gateway.
AMD is currently shipping its 1GHz Athlon processors priced at $1,299 in
1,000 unit quantities. AMD is also announcing the availability of 950MHz and
900MHz AMD Athlon processors. The 950MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $999
in 1,000 unit quantities. The 900MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $899 in
1,000 unit quantities.
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DeedlitCryogeni at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Intel doesn't brag? What makes you say that?
Of coarse intel brags, bragging is good marketting. Look at the
hubbub Intel did when it released the 733mhz coppermines. They had a
feild day with "Fastest processor in the world" Ditto
when they released the 800mhz.
Intel's supprise announcement of the "gigahertz in March"
was an attempt to brag. AMD beat them to the punch.
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Bozzie at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Man, don't screw with my words Nurotek. All I was saying is that
1300 is a little too much for even 1ghz. I think most people will
agree with me on that. As for intel, they'll probably anounce it and
not produce it for another 3 months like they did with the 800.
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Anonymous at 02:54pm 03/7/2000
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I think it is Great that AMD put out a 1 GHz CPU, but it really
upsets me that they can't scale their technology. Since the 700 MHz
came out every chip after that has reduced their L2 cache speed.
Even more so with their new 1 GHz.
It seems to me that they can't really get their Athlons to run as
fast as they intended (1/2 L2 cache) so they just pull a marketing
fast one on us to make us believe that they are keeping up with the
technology race. If Intel rips out their onchip cache (whic AMD
still can't get straight) would they be able to ramp up MHz to say
they are faster?
I want to cheer for the underdog, but I just don't trust AMD
anymore:(
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Why would AMD lower the 512K L2 they have for the Thunderbolt? From
the roadmaps I have seen it is supposed to stay the same amount with
L2 up to 8 megs for sever chips.
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Anonymous at 12:42am 03/7/2000
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I did read that but AMD will not be shipping to more than Compaq and
Gateway till later next month and I don't like to bet on full volume
from either manufacture. I will admit that if pair with full speed
L2 the Athlon will beat a P3.
To stop these rumors. AMD WILL NOT be running 512K on-chip with the
thunderbird. They will be releasing server chips that will have
that much but the Thunderbird will not at first.
Consider me a reliable source
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Your right in some places. I think that Intel will have the fastest
1Ghz chip out but the Athlon will be the fastest chip to market and
that is what counts. Intel has said that it plans to only sell the
1Ghz chip in new HP or IBM computers. Here is a clip if you missed
it from the P3 this month news post:
Volume production and sales of 1-GHz Pentium III systems is expected
by the third quarter, according to Howard High, an Intel spokesman.
That was the last full sentince of what Marcus put up. The Athlon
1Ghz will be out in the OEM market in a couple of weeks compaired to
months for the Intel chip.
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Anonymous at 10:06pm 03/6/2000
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Iceman, OK foating point. Do you even have a monitor that will
support 180KHz, which is needed to support the flotaing point ratio
to properly display the graphics in Q3, come on man nobody stands
still that long to notice. Plus Q3 is $!!! compeared to the
requirements of HALO,PIII or higher Voodoo 5 64MB, (which is still
in development, and why HALO isn't out yet.) If you dog Intel, your
followers, before Intel had comp. you liked them, until now!
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Anonymous at 09:58pm 03/6/2000
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First off, Intel never dominated the industry, forget AS400? how
about motorola? Sun? PowerPC (IBM)? huh...AMD is a great processor,
but when you bought that first pentium you were happy, right?
Because there wasn't much better. Why dog Intel? Think of this, AMD
says that their FSB is 200Mhz, lay mans terms, the speed of the
cache and processor with the memory. Right? Well the rest of the
motherboard is 100 MHz. Well, this summer without copper, which by
the way cost more to use than silicon, Intel is done with 1.5 GHz.
PLUS 400 MHZ FSB, 8MB L2 Cache. AMD doen't have the Sledgehammer
finished yet, just a prototype. Intel is done with 1.5, they're
movin on already. It pays to have 10 times the money than AMD. Which
by the way does have more heat problems than Intel. Consumer
Reports, March 06, 2000. 512 L2 Cache = 266MHz Intel 256 L2 advanced
transfer cache = processor clock speed! Only half but still three to
four times faste than AMD. From, those who work on the inside.
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Anonymous at 09:43pm 03/6/2000
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So AMD has 1 GHz out, two days from now Intel will have 1GHz. AMD
won the race. This is fact,cool...I can deal with this, so can you.
DO you know why Intel didn't bring out 1 GHz today? I doubt it.
Intel doesn't brag. PERIOD. AMD does. But in two months do you know
for sure, with factual info that AMD will have a processor 500MHz
facter than the GHz? NO you don't , however Intel isn't racing, in
this industry there isn't a winner, tomorrow he's second, then
third, then first. So big deal about GHz, Intel has a 1.5GHz
finished. And since it takes 13 weeks to make a processor, I think
that they are working on faster than 1 GHz. Be happy that you beat
the comp. to the floor but what if your comp. waits 1 month and then
kills you with 500Mhz faster than last month? Intel said Wednesday
because they wanted AMD to release the chip first. IN quantity! This
way they cannot produce a faster processor in time to beat 1.5GHz
"Williamette", it was announced weeks ago. Don't you tink
that this processor is in full development for sale? Why else would
Intel be short on shipping 800MHz? Sounds like a smoke screen to me.
You decide, I just work for them.
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Iceman at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Hey Man,
you are probably right in that but when AMD does release the chip
with on die cache it is suppose to be 512k worth and running at
1ghz.
With the floating point power of the Athlon,I think it will be
faster on Q3. Twice as much cache running the same speed.
well see you guys later
Iceman
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