Dputiger
11-15-2000, 08:45 AM
This is just my opinion, but I like to think about this sort of thing. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
I think AMD is under-estimating their own market performance purposefully. Looking around on this forum I've seen a lot of 1 Ghz T-birds at 1100-1200, Duron 600's at 950, and at their last analyst meeting, Jerry Sanders said that 80% of the chips they've fabbed since July were 1 Ghz....or above.
But wait a minute--that's not true from a sales standpoint--1Ghz chips only dropped within truly affordable range for the mass-market a few months ago. Which means that AMD must be back to its old trick of getting great yields and underclocking cores.
Furthermore, with the increased bus speeds and DDR-RAM, AMD HAS effectively increased the speed of their processors without needing to roll out a new Mhz upgrade. The upcoming Palomino and Morgan chips will feature enhanced cache and branch prediction units, once again, yielding speed increases without forcing a Mhz increase.
But, I'll be honest--I think AMD is fabbing 1.5 Ghz chips right now. The cancellation of the Mustang gives them more room to pound the Palomino home.
Just my opinion--but AMD's known for months that the Pentium IV was coming and would ramp to very high clock speeds very quickly. The Thunderbird was released at 1 Ghz last JUNE and we KNOW the Athlon core goes higher without much trouble. It's hard to believe that AMD has only figured out how to get 200 more Mhz out of that core in the last five months.
Their up to something. I'd bet on it.
I think AMD is under-estimating their own market performance purposefully. Looking around on this forum I've seen a lot of 1 Ghz T-birds at 1100-1200, Duron 600's at 950, and at their last analyst meeting, Jerry Sanders said that 80% of the chips they've fabbed since July were 1 Ghz....or above.
But wait a minute--that's not true from a sales standpoint--1Ghz chips only dropped within truly affordable range for the mass-market a few months ago. Which means that AMD must be back to its old trick of getting great yields and underclocking cores.
Furthermore, with the increased bus speeds and DDR-RAM, AMD HAS effectively increased the speed of their processors without needing to roll out a new Mhz upgrade. The upcoming Palomino and Morgan chips will feature enhanced cache and branch prediction units, once again, yielding speed increases without forcing a Mhz increase.
But, I'll be honest--I think AMD is fabbing 1.5 Ghz chips right now. The cancellation of the Mustang gives them more room to pound the Palomino home.
Just my opinion--but AMD's known for months that the Pentium IV was coming and would ramp to very high clock speeds very quickly. The Thunderbird was released at 1 Ghz last JUNE and we KNOW the Athlon core goes higher without much trouble. It's hard to believe that AMD has only figured out how to get 200 more Mhz out of that core in the last five months.
Their up to something. I'd bet on it.