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Article #2102Re: AMD K5 vs. Intel i586 (a.k.a. "Genuine Pentium")
From: Darren L. Morgan
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:00
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The one named Yousuf Khan <ykhan@achilles.net> wrote
>AMD is not making CPUs that are as fast as the Intels, MHz-wise. The
>highest speed K5 is equivalent to a Pentium 133 nowadays. AMD is behind in
>this field, but likely it'll be able to catch up in a few months.
>
> Yousuf Khan
This is partly because they don't want to make the faster chips.
For them the cheaper mass market stuff is where they are hitting the
other manufactures, and making them the profits.
Darren
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