From: George France (francehandhelds.org)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 11:11:25 CDT

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Well Said!

Well Done!

--George

On Monday 26 May 2003 11:40 am, jason.brashearamd.com wrote:
> Well we can sit here a debate this stuff all day, but it is a special day,
> lets all get out of our homes and enjoy it!
> -Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Foley [mailto:mike-spamyelof.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 10:34 AM
> To: axp-listredhat.com
> Subject: The "Samsung 1GHz announced in 1999" fiasco
>
>
>
> I'll start a seperate thread for this one.
>
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> >And Alpha could have done it back in 1997.
> >
> >Furthermore, some people forget that the first air-cooled, production
> >processor to 1GHz was a Samsung 21164A at 1.2GHz.
>
> Ah yes, that fiasco. It ran at 1GHz, not 1.2. It used 250ns cache so
> it was
> no faster than a 750 on anything other than what would fit in L1.
> Faster cache wasn't available and if it was, it would have sent the price
> thru the
> stratosphere. EV68 with cache should have been rammed thru but Compaq
> didn't want it so Samsung didn't make it!
>
> It wasn't even close to production. It was a testing lab special
> that Samsung,
> not API, wanted to trot out. It stole alot of API thunder because
> everyone
> asked after that when they were going to get one. Let me re-enforce the
> point that if Compaq didn't want it, Samsung didn't build it.
>
> Not to mention that the chipset used on the UP2000 had some issues that
> really wouldn't have used the processor efficiently.
>
> The funniest part was a year or two later when a Samsung employee
> had the balls to chastise us for "announcing" the 1GHz and not
> following thru. Even after laying out the fact that we couldn't ship
> anything that Samsung didn't build, he didn't get it. (but he was a dunce
> anyways)
>
> mike
> API
> technical marketing
> Still
> out of work almost 2 years later
>
>
>
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