Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Computer Clock Cycle Jargon

A mention of MegaHertz not being a very accurate measure of the computational power by our Chariman sahab during his class of Computer System Modeling reminded me of this neat article that I dugg some time ago on Digg.com ...

AMD has been gaining lost ground to its arch-rival Intel recently ... and in some areas, it has even taken the lead (atleast thats what my cousin who sells AMD tells me) . Khair, take a look ...

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Dec/bch20051215033811.htm

3 comments:

Whiz Kid said...

No way hozay... it was MIPS he talked about! MIPS and MHz are different measures. Bangggg!

Unknown said...

Before that, he did say a word about MegaHertz too. I believe you weren't listening .. :P

Whiz Kid said...

Guess I was taking a quickie 5 minute nap at that time... my naps in CSM and IT work in time-division fashion ;)

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