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Subject: Re: Which is the next major upcoming AMD proccessor being awaited?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 10:53:13 05/21/03

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On May 21, 2003 at 11:47:40, leonid wrote:

>On May 20, 2003 at 16:52:43, Tim Foden wrote:
>
>>On May 20, 2003 at 16:28:42, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Well? which is the upcoming AMD chip which is being most eagerly awaited now?
>>>What is it called? When is it due? what would be its specifications?
>>>
>>>I havn't been into these things recently, but I remember when the "Sledgehammer"
>>>was to be the greatest product of the generation following Athlon.
>>> Has that come about yet?
>>>
>>>If the "Clawhammer" was to come first, has it?
>>>
>>>I can understand that names might have changed. It's partially for that reason
>>>that I don't understand where we're up to.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any informed anawers!
>>>
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>Probably the last of the 32 bit Athlon line was just released, the Athlon XP
>>3200+ (Barton core w/ 400MHz FSB).
>>
>>The first of the new AMD64 (was x86-64) line, Opteron (was Sledgehammer) is
>>already released (22 April).  This is the server version.
>
>The most strange is the fact that no publication in main computer magazines are
>present about this last AMD's 64 bits chip. I expected that in magazines for
>June something will be published. Already few magazines for June arrived but no
>articles about this chip. Why all this silence? Is this chip already failed
>someway, or will become visible only later?
>
>Leonid.

A didn't read paper publications for years now, everything is on the web :

http://aceshardware.com/forum?read=95026357
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000251
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?page=7
http://web.wanadoo.be/vincentlejeune/matinfo.html

>
>>The consumer AMD64 chip, probably to be called Athlon 64 (was Clawhammer), is
>>scheduled to be released in September (delayed by about 1 year).
>>
>>Hope I got this info correct :)  Cheers, Tim.



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