Word: amd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look back and be glad to have done what I did. And I am. And I can only hope my grand plans for the future fail so well. Because as much fun as I trust you've had reading FM this past year, I can assure you that ARC, AMD, JSP, AMSM and I have had that much more planning...
...been sampling the latest, fastest chip off the block: a 650-MHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later this month on selected Compaq Presario and IBM Aptiva 865 machines. For the first time in ages, beleaguered AMD has a speed edge over rival Intel, whose Pentium III chips chug away at (yawn...
...Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though it has cut Pentium prices as much...
...AMD's Athlon or Intel's Pentium III: that is the question. All things being equal--components, software and peripherals in the package deal--if you feel you must have the latest, fastest, I'd shop this one strictly by price. Don't worry about brand names. If you can get a better deal on an Athlon, do it. One thing to keep in mind, though, is this: 99% of you who read this column won't see much difference. Chips have become so fast, they outpace most software's requirements. Then again, if speed really matters to you, maybe...
...Advance Micro Devices plugged an April fair in Austin in radio ads for weeks in advance, then set up a big tent to supply job information for those who wandered in while local disk jockeys played music to amuse those waiting in line. The fair was "wildly successful," and AMD hired 30 people. IBM set up recruiting tables in March in Panama City, Fla., where thousands of college students were partying on spring break. David Hofrichter, a managing director of Hay Group, a global management-consulting firm, notes that companies no longer tell recruiters dispatched to job fairs...