Philipp 6 Posted July 30, 2001 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... Read more Share this post Link to post
