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Will Opteron Help Dispel The Megahertz Myth?
News 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 performance ratings. The company calls the computer industry's obsession with clock speed the...
[March 13, 2003, 15:24]
Tony Smith: Macs Marred By Megahertz
News Back in January, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple iCEO Steve Jobs happily told the keynote crowd how the colour of a computer was way more important to consumers than the machine's megahertz rating.
[October 13, 1999, 15:17]
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]
Macs Are Not About Megahertz, Says Jobs
News At the same time, he noted that Apple's speed increases for the Power Mac are among the largest ever in terms of the number of megahertz. But as the gulf continues to widen, Apple is once again trying to convince consumers not to judge its...
[July 20, 2001, 9:22]
IDF: Banias Ends The Megahertz Madness For Intel
News We need to be moving beyond megahertz. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, executive vice president Paul Otellini detailed new technologies, including Banias, a chip designed specifically for mobile computing, and improvements to the McKinley...
[August 29, 2001, 10:59]
Intel Preparing Megahertz Megablitz
News By the end of October, Intel will have introduced more than 13 new Pentium III chips for desktop and mobile PCs as well as workstations and servers, sources said. Industry watchers could not recall any company releasing as many chips in such a...
[August 31, 1999, 9:28]
AMD Quits The Megahertz Race
News Hoping to counter a perception that its processors are slower than those from rival Intel, AMD is moving away from branding its chips based on megahertz. Starting next month, the chipmaker will introduce a new Athlon naming plan that reflects the...
[August 31, 2001, 8:41]
Intel Facing Celeron Speed Dilemma
News Intel is facing a mobile megahertz quandary. Still, companies with the 433MHz and 466MHz Celeron chips in their notebook lineups may notice an increase in Celeron sales from consumers and small businesses that are making purchase decisions based on...
[August 10, 1999, 16:02]
Intel's Banias: Not Built For Speed
News Banias, Intel's energy-efficient processor designed primarily for notebooks, will debut at three speeds when it arrives next year, sources say -- but megahertz won't be its selling point. AMD's profits and prices have also been hurt by megahertz...
[August 8, 2002, 7:35]
AMD Unveils New Strategy For Chip Speed
News Although AMD's new Athlon XP processors will hit the stage on Tuesday, the real showstopper will be if the company can get the public to forget about megahertz at the same time. To combat megahertz dependency, the company has come up with the new...
[October 9, 2001, 9:55]
AMD Sets High Expectations For K7
News Dirk Meyer, an AMD vice president and architect of the K7, said at an industry dinner on Thursday night that the chip will be faster than an Intel Pentium III chip with an equivalent megahertz rating on key performance measures, including...
[June 14, 1999, 13:57]
Intel Draws Notebook And Desktop Chip Lines Together
News A new chip-numbering plan that de-emphasises megahertz will help Intel get around any thorny marketing issues. The chip giant will adopt a common processor core, code-named Merom, for its notebook and desktop lines of chips in 2007, according to...
[March 30, 2004, 8:30]
Intel Developer Forum: Full Coverage
News Elsewhere, Intel said it is relenting on the megahertz race, but almost in the same breath showed off a 3.5GHz Pentium 4 processor running Quake III and together with several simultaneous video streams.
[August 29, 2001, 15:30]
Intel Vs AMD: Get Ready For Round Three
News The chip, actually running at 1,133MHz, will have a slight megahertz advantage, but will be available only in limited quantities at first. While they've been sparring over megahertz, the chip makers have also been landing heavy punches on the cost...
[July 19, 2000, 13:40]
Intel Banks On 3GHz Chip
News Although some critics say that PCs contain more megahertz than necessary, the company maintains that the average desktop in the world today is beginning to wheeze. AMD's performance figures roughly correspond to the megahertz speeds of Pentium 4...
[November 14, 2002, 8:29]
Intel Plans Aggressive 'Willamette' Intro
News As such, the Willamette chip will be an important product for Intel as it continues the megahertz race with rival Advanced Micro Devices. Willamette's design is tuned to achieve high megahertz ratings, Intel officials have said.
[May 9, 2000, 8:22]
Intel To Boost Celeron Bus
News Though Intel will offer more megahertz to value PC buyers, with 733MHz and 766MHz versions of the Celeron chip slated to ship later this quarter and next quarter, respectively. However, Intel officials maintain that most customers, consumers at...
[August 31, 2000, 15:51]
Jobs Pledges Apple Fixes
News We'll be introducing systems with higher megahertz next year. Some customers feel that Apple has fallen into a megahertz gap in regards to Intel," Jobs said. Jobs said the company will also work with Motorola to close the "megahertz gap" with...
[October 20, 2000, 9:26]
AMD, Intel Trot Out New Chips
News While Athlons don't churn as many computing cycles per second (measured by megahertz) as Pentium 4 chips, they perform more work per cycle. Because of the megahertz mismatch, consumers are "actually better off looking at the model number" for a...
[June 10, 2002, 9:03]
Intel Launches Cheap Chip As Wireless Lure
News Still, the company will have to grapple with the megahertz gap that the M line has created. Consumers tend to focus on the megahertz number when choosing a notebook and whether buyers will wean themselves away from that approach remains to be seen.
[January 6, 2004, 10:00]
