Intel winds down GHz race

[Mark R]

Here's a great present, AMD -- from your good friend, Intel. The
microprocessor king is forfeiting the mainstream desktop GHz
clock race to its closest competitor for the next nine months --
until Intel fields its own comparable speed-grade desktop
processors in mid-2001.


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[optoman]

I see this as good and bad. Good, because people can finally see that intel isn't all that. Bad, because there will be a slow down of faster speeds from both AMD and Intel. I liked the competition because it brought us faster and cheaper chips.

 

[Vegito]

Actually if they did not push scambus, and looked at DDR sooner, they wouldn't have that much problems... would have not wasted resources on useless stuff..

 

[pdo]

So does that mean that AMD can set whatever prices they want now with their chips without having to worry about Intel?

 

[Adul]

I thnk AMD will keep prices at where they are now. I wonder when the 1.33 athlon will show up

 

[noxipoo]

there won't be a slow down if intel puts out P4. its higher clock speeds will force AMD put something out that similiar else consumers will think intel is fastest.

 

[Topshelf]

Wow, I guess this chanes everything now. I was going to upgrade my cpu after the P4's came out to a higher clocked P3 and go for 1Gig+. But Maybe I should switch to AMD now since they will be putting out faster cpu's over the next 9 months. Yikes!