Athlon 64 Pushed Back to September

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 31, 2003 @05:30AM from the hold-your-breath dept.

Orion writes "AMD confirmed today that their new Athlon 64 will indeed be pushed back to September. Originally planned to be released in April or May, AMD has decided to put all of its brainpower into the launch of the 64-bit Opteron, which is still scheduled to be released on April 22. This article explains that AMD is still going to try to get a few more Athlon XP processors out before the Athlon 64 hits stores. The 3000+ has a planned February 10 release date, and the 3200+ should be out by the middle of the year according to the article."

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Re:Oh who fucking cares. by dentar · 2003-01-31 06:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hey.. I like the AMD processors. They're cheap and fast. Why would I want to spend $100 more for an intel and $500 more for a Mac when Linux is going to either work around or ignore the palladium and drm? Do you think AMD and Intel are going to be stupid enough to put out processors that refuse to boot if windows is not the OS? There'll be a bigger backlash than the F00F or FDIV bugs.

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