Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:35:34 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 16:44:37, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On October 03, 2002 at 13:11:50, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>you probably do know that intel has a hammer equivalent in the form of "YAMHILL" >>which they could produce whenever they felt like, if they find the P4 is lagging >>behind. And this will be produced on a 0.09 micron process which agin will put >>AMD between the proverbial Scylla and Charybdes or as the yanks would say >>between a rock and a hard place >> >>in any case AMD is in a "lose lose" situation. Go to the <www.businessweek.com> >>to read about AMD's financial problems if you dont believe me. >> >>rajen > >How do you know they could produce it "whenever they like"? Intel's Prescott >will have x86-64 support built into the chip but it will be disabled. Plus it's >just now getting into the silicon stage. No way it'll be mass produced any time >real soon. > >Also take a look at this... >http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2002/06/020620_Intel_To_Dump_Yamhill/020620_Intel_To_Dump_Yamhill.htm > >Also let me remind you. There are *MANY* single/dual/quad opteron/clawhammer >systems out there now that AMD is sending to developers and various companies >(like Dell) to evaluate. This is actually incorrect. I have the e-mail @ work, but when I e-mailed AMD to ask them for a sample benchmark on the Hammer systems, they told me they were delaying shipment to vendors for no less than 3 months. That was about a month ago. I used my work e-mail to try to coax them into thinking we wanted one. ;)
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