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Athlon 64 Pushed Back to September
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."
they Opteron to delay-IT-orn...
At least this will give me more time to save more money...
(must have new CPU.... drool =P~)
cheers
will work for Karma
Man i can't wait to play Duke Nukem Forever on my new Opteron system. I'm saving a penny a day and by the time i have enough money, i should be able to buy all i need.
WOOT!@#
Der Tod ist der einzige Weg hier raus!
Looks like somebody pissed off the AMD fan boy moderator =)
The current MS desktop is XP, the current AMD desktop ship series is the XP. The next big MS release keeps getting put back. The next big AMD release just got put back. There is, however, no link between these facts and you'd be a fool and a communist to think so ;)
At least now Apple has a better chance of releasing the first 64 consumer desktops.
Should be out just in time for World Of Warcraft. This must be why Blizzard is dragging their feet, they're gonna wow us with a 64 bit MMORPG!
*pats his Athlon 2200+*
:-)
I hope that was the system and not the CPU itself!
Otherwise, you just burned your hand and static-fried the chip!
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Shouldn't this be....
1. Profit!
2. ???
3. Beowulf cluster build you
4. Go to Soviet Russia
Gee, I wonder why AMD's executive testified in favour of Microsoft? Could it be because Microsoft made illegal use of its monopoly to extract that testemony, with the threat of not supporting AMD's 64-bit efforts? Nah, couldn't be!
When we need that extra little processing kick, we just turn it up to 64.
Why don't you just get a faster 32 bit processor?
Uhh...but ours goes to 64.
MHO. YMMV. Any resemblance between this post and real persons, or reality in general, was accidental.
This will be a marketing disaster for various sectors of the Desktop PC component business.
Namely, heat sink and cooling fan vendors are bound to see a substantial revenue drop.
Blue LED vendors and tricked-out-case-part vendors will likewise see a slump in the market.
Let's hope they can make it through to the Fall on continued sales of 'Yay! It's overcloxored!' stickers and decals. Word on the street is that the sticky adhesive on the present install base of stickers doesn't hold up to the humidity in a 'dank mom's-basement' environment so second and third sales will probably continue to roll in.
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 include new technology to succeed their acclaimed 3DNOW! Instruction Set which at this time is being termed only as "NUKE'EMNOW!". Dirk Meyer, senior vice president of computational products at AMD stated that "upon consulting with 3DRealms we feel this move will ensure that the next generation of AMD processors will be able to run Duke Nukem Forever with far superior performance to any other product currently on the drawing boards". A spokesman for the Acme Toothpick company commented "Gee.... that's too bad"
I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
"At least now Apple has a better chance of releasing the first 64 consumer desktops."
Really? What color? I just got a new pair of shoes.
"hat's they're and a lot less, pardon my sucky typing"
/. community.
I originally read that as 'sticky typing'. I assumed that you had the same reaction to the Operton as the rest of the