Will Opteron Help Dispel The Megahertz Myth?
News The company calls the computer industry's obsession with clock speed the "megahertz myth. AMD on Thursday announced a new matrix of model numbers for its forthcoming 64-bit chips for workstations and servers that does away with megahertz-based...
[March 13, 2003, 15:24]
AMD Takes On Myth Of Megahertz
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will start prodding consumers to jump over the megahertz gap next month. We've got a market that's conditioned to using megahertz as a proxy for performance," McCarron said.
[August 9, 2001, 9:33]
AMD Working On New PC Rating Method
News Chipmaker AMD is continuing its fight against the most common way of rating computer performance -- a method that relies on what AMD calls the "megahertz myth". Last summer, the Sunnyvale, California-based company launched its True Performance...
[August 22, 2002, 7:22]
Intel Gives Up The Gigahertz
Talkback Welcome to the megahertz myth! What goes around, comes around - It's about time Intel suffered at the hands of it's own marketing after all the years of mis-information it has propogated against other chip fabs whose processors were "obviously...
[March 15, 2004, 9:09]
AMD Launches New Desktop Athlon 64s
Talkback However, Intel made some bad design decisions with the Prescott and they fell into their own trap of the megahertz myth. For the first time in history, AMD is leading the PC processor design, and Intel is following.
[June 1, 2004, 16:21]
