On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 22:41 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 6:35 PM -0600 12/13/05, Jeff Vian wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:04 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > ... > No, AMD wanted to sell their current customers the new chip, but it ran at > a lower clock rate than the old chip, so it looked slower. AMD had trained > them to look only at clock rate. AMD had to fix that in order to sell the > chip at all. Intel created the MHz myth, not AMD. AMD, being the underdog had to fight /against/ this myth during the bad days of the K5 and K6, got a leading start in the K7/Thunderbird days, and managed, after a long struggle to even the fight when the P4 was got clock-rate stone-walled, forcing Intel to use their own PR rating. > It took extra PR (Public Relations) after AMD spent a few years convincing > people that clock speed was king. Huh? Please post links to prove the above. How can AMD set anything, when Intel still sets the pace for the CPU market? Gilboa
