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| | Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Megahertz myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | As the vice-president for customer advocacy - silly title, serious task - at AMD, the silicon chip maker, Moorhead wants to persuade the PC-buying public that clock frequency, the measure of a computer processor's pulse-rate and the prime gauge of chip performance over the past 20-30 years, is no more relevant today than MS-DOS. |
 | | Apple began to popularise the phrase "the megahertz myth" last summer after being stung by criticism that a member of its PowerPC processor family was much, much slower than Intel's rival Pentium line. |
 | | Fully aware of the megahertz myth, Intel believes higher clock frequencies matter most, which is why the Pentium 4 now runs at 2.2GHz but needs a 20-stage pipeline to get there. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,658968,00.html (1025 words) |
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