If I understand your arguement correclty I'm gonna give my point of view.
The Mhz race as I racall it was who will release a faster CPU first.
A race ceases to be a race when:
- One opponent gave up on the goal of releasing faster CPU than it's competitor.
- The opponent fails by default if he can't keep up with it's competitor no matter how much he wants to.
It's like you can't enter the Olympics by just saying "I can run very fast, trust me", you gonna have to prove it.
Now I think darko is confusing between giving up on the race and still releasing faster Mhz processors with time.
As I see it, AMD realized they can't keep up with Intel faster Mhz so they gave up on trying to release faster Mhz than Intel, instead they started the 1800+ marketing to make people aware that even though their processors are lower on mhz, they perform very well like P4 1800Mhz.
But, that did not mean that AMD will get stuck with Mhz, they kept on making them clock faster with time, but it was out of the Mhz race, it was part of going forward not in a race.
It's like you can run everyday and workout and get stronger and stronger, but that doesn't mean you can beat the guy who's genetics are currently better than yours therefore he has many sponsers and compete in the olympic games. No matter what you will do you can't say your in a race with him when you are not in his level in running.
But you may very well be stronger than him in other areas like lifting heavy objects or being more talented in art.
Either way, it is like natural selection, whichever company that will have the solutions for the needs of it's customers, that will be the company that will strive longer.
That is the reason Intel hurried and signed that deal with Nvidia, they didn't want to let AMD to have the only solution of SLI based graphics, same is valid with the Intel EMT64.
Intel is on the guard and it doesn't underestimate AMD one bit.
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