An update on AMD's True Performance Initiative
The effort to create a new PC performance metric is still kicking
BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2001, when AMD launched its first Athlon XP processors with "model number" ratings, the company told us it would be working on an industry-wide initiative to produce a new standard for measuring performance. Since then, we've heard very little out of AMD about the new performance metric coming from its True Performance Initiative. I wasn't about to let 2002 slip by without finding out what became of TPI, so I started poking around asking nosy questions.
The effort to create a new PC performance metric is still kicking
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AMD was kind enough to point me to the fortuitously named Hal Speed, the company's Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives and head TPI honcho. I asked Hal all manner of questions like, "Is TPI still alive?" "When will we see it?" and "Is that really your real name, really?" Read on to see what I learned.
