Month: August 2002

The revised AMD datasheets for Thoroughbred are now available, covering both TB and T2B. (From now on, we’ll use “TB” to indicate Thoroughbred, Revision 1 and T2B to indicate Thoroughbred, Revision 2. Yes, we know “TB” also means tuberculosis. We

AMD provided a reasonably satisfactory technical answer to its problems yesterday. Will that be enough? While it certainly helps, the Sony Betamax provides mute testimony that being technically better isn’t always good enough. Here are some of the challenges AMD

Bottom Lines AMD stopped neglecting the Neglected Nag, and you can’t call revision B a Neglected Nag anymore. It looks like 2.4GHz (real) is reasonably doable. A processor capable of 2.4 GHz indicates a fairly level playing field for the

We wrote an article yesterday in which we said that if an XBit Labs article were correct, that it wouldn’t be a good idea to buy 2400+ and 2600+ immediately but rather wait until the October date purported to be