| [News] 1GHz Athlon released | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Mar-2000 21:57 GMT by Christian Kemp | 32 comments
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Sauro quotes BoingWorld: According to the AMD website the Athlon 1GHz chip has been released, and the first boxes that will be available will come from Compaq & Gateway. You can read a review of the new Athlon chip here. See AMD's web site too.
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| Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | It's sad to see so many people posting without taking the time to check their facts.
First of all, G4's @650 Mhz are ready for mass-production. But that's not the really important part.
Fact is that there was a serious flaw in the G4 design by Motorola that kept it from going beyond 500 Mhz.
Now that this flaw has been corrected, do you really think 650 MHz is the end? Expect to see a 1 gig G4 by Q3 at the very latest.
Plus IBM and Motorola have a lot up their sleeves: they will implement on-die L2 cache and Silicon on Insulator technology which will give the G4 a 60% performance boost at the same clock-speed.
And let's turn to 64bit: the G5 will be able to run 32 bit at native speeds. The Merced/Itanium chip fails miserably in this respect.
No, my money is still on the G4.
BTW: a 500 Mhz G4 is roughly equivalent to a 750 Mhz Athlon in every day use. |
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