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AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-a-good-time-to-buy dept.

nexex writes: "With a new year comes new products, and AMD certainly has some new toys for us to drool over. The first of 2002 will see the release of "Thoroughbred," a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the more advanced 130-nanometer manufacturing process. The chip will cover 80 square millimeters in area, or 65 percent of the space of the "Northwood" Pentium 4 coming from Intel in early January. That chip measures 116 square millimeters, according to AMD estimates. For more, including info on Clawhammer, Sledgehammer, and all the Intel bashing you can handle, see here." I hope they don't really mean that "these new chips will also consume less heat than current AMD notebooks chips."

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  1. AMD Customer Support XPerience by vandan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Irongate Chipset (AMD 751 / 761) has a serious hardware flaw that causes the motherboard to stop responding about 75% of the time the AGPGart is activated.
    About 13 months ago, AMD confirmed this flaw affected all Irongate chipsets. 1 month later, all Windows drivers for Irongate chipsets had work-arounds implemented. 3 months after this, nVidia had incorporated similar work-arounds into their binary-only NVDriver.
    And that just leaves the kernel agpgart.o.
    AMD have been repeatedly emailed by me and apparently everyone else with Linux + Irongate + non-nVidia card, and sometimes receive a carbon-copy of AMD's standard response:
    "AMD are aware of this issue, and are currently hashing out a solution with various distributions of Linux".
    Until this issue is fixed (which it never will be), AMD can suck me off while enjoying the negative publicity their non-existant customer support gains them.