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Томас Пабст,  25 октября 1999 Страница:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Introduction

Not long ago the impossible happened. Intel, the largest processor-maker in the world, was pushed from its throne of the provider of the fastest x86-CPU. Small and struggling AMD had provided a product that's not only just about faster than Intel's flagship, but leaving Intel's Pentium III-series, including Xeon, in the dust rather badly. As if this wouldn't be bad enough, AMD had beaten Intel where it really hurt, in Intel's old domain, the floating-point area. While this new AMD Athlon-CPU was ahead of Pentium III in the integer-arena quite considerably, it left all Intel-processors far behind at 'number-crunching', the area that used to be pronounced so overly important by Intel's marketing in the past. It was a nasty slap in the face of the self-confident Intel-management and everyone in this company dealt with it in a different way. Many OEMs and system integrators will remember Intel road shows, where Chipzilla's marketing guys tried to make fun of Athlon or decided that the Earth was flat, water flows uphill and Athlon was an inferior product to the wonderful Intel-processors. Others - God bless them - just kept quiet as you should do when you're defeated, but the majority faced this 'ridiculous' condition with the well-known 'Intel-arrogance' and tried to just ignore the existence of Athlon.

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Introduction Stress Creates Mistakes No i820-Release, but i820-Benchmark Data ... ? Coppermine's New Enhancements What Coppermines will be available? The Benchmark Setup Direct Comparison of preliminary Intel i820 and VIA Apollo Pro 133+-platform Direct Comparison of Katmai and Coppermine Core Overall Processor Comparison Conclusion  Обсуждение в Клубе Экспертов THG