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Subject: the hammer is a non starter

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 10:58:46 06/06/02

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the hammer is basixcally a non-starter. AMD had its brief moment in the sun in
2001 and it is still basking in its warmth. One reasson why intel is so dominant
iss because they learn from mistakes while AMD tries to revel in its past glory.
The AND hammer is probably just vaporware and i doubt that it will ever be able
to beat intels pentium4. they are still struggling to release an XP 2200

http://www.theinquirer.net/06060203.htm

chessbase knows this well and thats why almost 98% of the time they have stucjk
to intel.

rajen

On June 06, 2002 at 12:15:53, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>I'm contacting Chessbase reguarding the system they are using. Xeons are
>definitely not the best setup for a match such as this. I'm seeing at the moment
>about having AMD sponsor a multi-cpu Sledgehammer machine for the event. If
>Chessbase accepts Frans should be able to get his hands on a dual Sledgehammer
>rather soon to start his work on porting over a full blown 64bit version. It can
>run the current Fritz 7 (32bit) without problems if need be though. Really
>looking forward to this. Hopefully Chessbase accepts. AMD should agree as long
>as there are mature/stable dual/quad boards available at the time of the match.
>The publicity should be quite good for both AMD and Chessbase as well as provide
>Kramnik with a tougher opponent. Will keep anyone interested on this matter
>posted on the situation.



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