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Athlon 64 Pushed Back to September

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. So? by Salden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The server market needs the 64bit cpus before consumers do anyway. I am looking forward to the barton cores with their better cache performance. It's still impressive to see what their doing with a look less cycles than Intel. I hope they get a good share in the server market with the Opteron as it will build confidence in AMD across the board.

  2. Tactically wise by l33t-gu3lph1t3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AMD's decision to delay it's Athlon64 CPU series release date until September (possibly timed to the release of a 64bit version of Windows) is pretty smart, actually. By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems. Why release a fast, inexpensive processor for the desktop market when you can release a slightly slower one, for a different market, for much, much more? By concentrating on the big iron of Opteron, AMD might be able to halt their financial bloodletting, and get back in the black in time for Athlon64...

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  3. Re:Another... by Dastardly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also that AMD will not release until M$ is ready. The should release for Linux, but want to keep us hanging on as Intel's grip on the market tightens.

    Did you even read the article?? Opteron is still scheduled for April 22. It is the release for Linux.

  4. AMD is waiting for Microsoft by dtjohnson · · Score: 5, Insightful


    A story in the inquirer
    says AMD is "waiting for the introduction of a suitable 64-bit operating
    system. This, The INQUIRER believes, is the Windows 64 bit version specifically
    for the Athlon64."

    How many companies have died while waiting for Microsoft
    to do something? (Note to AMD: Microsoft is *not* your friend.)

  5. Re:Why rush for a 64 bit processor? by SWPadnos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, there are several applications, albeit specialized ones:

    1) Databases - a lot of databases are too big for a pointer offset to fit into 32 bits. Ever notice that the 120Gig hard drive you just bought has more than 2^32 bytes on it? (yes - I know that the hard drive is split into 512-byte sectors, and that you won't overflow 32 bits until you get drives larger than 2 TB, but how long will that take :)

    2) Video (editing, encoding, etc) - a single layer of a single side of a DVD is more than can be addressed by a 32-bit pointer. The amount of source data used to create the highly compressed DVD data is mind-boggling. (A high quality transfer from film is about 100M per frame. A 2-hour film has 172800 frames [assuming it's not IMax - that's higer resolution and more frames per second] - that's 17 terabytes of raw data!)

    3) High dynamic range images (including photographs and extrme high color video games) - the data types being used by the GeForce FX (similar to the EXR format released by ILM) have 16 bits of data per channel - this totals 64 bits for each RGBA pixel.

    I'm sure there are more - these few just jumped into mind quickly.

    Of course, for those who use Windows, you'll need 64-bit CPU's to be able to load those Word XP-2004.Net documents :)

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