The Marketing of Megahertz
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Transmeta Zone has put up an article "The Marketing of Megahertz"
There is a battle being fought at this very moment over the mighty megahertz measuring stick used by both Transmeta and Intel. Each company uses this one aspect of measuring a systems performance to help convey the performance of their products to the end consumers.
At face value this would seem to be an infallible method of comparison. Megahertz is a number (or more correctly a unit of measurement) so it either is, or isn´t accurate. There is no need, nor is there room for interpretation - a processor either operates at a specific value of MHz or it does not. Right? Well not always...
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There is a battle being fought at this very moment over the mighty megahertz measuring stick used by both Transmeta and Intel. Each company uses this one aspect of measuring a systems performance to help convey the performance of their products to the end consumers.
At face value this would seem to be an infallible method of comparison. Megahertz is a number (or more correctly a unit of measurement) so it either is, or isn´t accurate. There is no need, nor is there room for interpretation - a processor either operates at a specific value of MHz or it does not. Right? Well not always...
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