AMD Delays Hammer

TeJarz writes "C|Net reports that their next processor (Hammer) has been rescheduled from its original Q4 release to Q1 2003. To quote C|Net: 'The delays are occurring to accommodate the release of a new version of Athlon with a 333MHz bus, said Crank. Current Athlons come with a 200MHz bus and 256KB of secondary cache.' Let's hope this doesn't get moved again."

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Current Athlons

[Anonymous Coward]

...have a 266MBz bus

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Re:Comment non-sense

[Paul Komarek]

I, for one, am hoping to replace our Alphas with cpus from the AMD Hammer series. We're about to buy a bunch of P4-based machines despite the problems we've had with certain tight loops in scientific code performing 80 times slower than a similarly clocked Athlon (according to Athlon advertised "speed", not actual clock). No, I'm not exaggerating, and this has been verified independently -- the P4 cpu has some huge weak spots that really suck if you hit them. If Hammer were out and working properly, we probably wouldn't buy the P4 machines to hold us over.

We need 64 bit machines to accomodate massive memory for our research. I'm really hoping the Hammer can provide a relatively inexpensive and *commoditized* 64 bit platform for us to work on, compared to existing 64 bit (workstation/server) platforms. And I want it yesterday. Actually, I want it last year.

I have no idea what the editors or submitter meant, of course.

-Paul Komarek

some people use these for work, you know

[g4dget]

Why should we hope it gets released now instead of later? Do you have anything riding on it?

Hard as that may be to believe, some people use their computers for real work. And some of those people run into that dreaded 4G limit--4G is not a lot of memory anymore these days. And many of these people would love to have the choice of a Hammer over Itanium.

Re:To anyone complaing because they have old syste

[bogie]

I'm glad your happy with your slow Celeron, but don't assume that for the rest of us we don't need the fastest CPU possible. Time is money and the faster myself or someone else can get their work done the better. There are a ton of apps out there right now where that speed CPU is just no longer a viable solution.

I do happen to agree with not freaking out about a processor release date. But do realize that people are excited about this cpu for a reason.

BTW many of us here were using computers and programming before you were born. Your only 20 for Pete's sake.