Hammer slipping into
2003?
Typo or misinterpretation
By Mike Magee, 21/03/2002 16:26:11 BST
Update: 18.31 GMT AMD Europe has not got back
to us and it's close of play this side of the pond. So
maybe Hammer has, indeed, slipped to next year,
because there's certainly no denial yet.
It's down to the US to get back to us now, we reckon
- those boys in Satan Clara have our number.
Meanwhile, the outfit has published an annual report
in PDF format which you can find here, and where
the word Hammer occurs so many times we haven't
been able to count it yet.
As for the Upside interview, it probably was
conducted at the end of last year, and things may
have changed since then, but Sanders uses the 2003
number specifically.
PERHAPS AMD CEO JERRY SANDERS memory is
slipping, or maybe he's talking about Sledgehammer
rather than Clawhammer, but there's a little snippet
from that Upside interview that seems to suggest we
won't see Hammer chips until 2003.
There are other possibilities.
In his interview with Upside, which we covered earlier
in the day, Sanders said: "…When we start shipping
[Hammer] in 2003… my life's work will have come to
fruition."
All previous assessments by the chip company, as
recently as last week at CeBIT, was that members
of the Hammer family would ship this year.
We're assuming that when he says Hammer he
means Sledgehammer, but we've placed a call to
AMD to clarify exactly what Jerry Sanders meant,
and will update this story accordingly.
It could also be a slip on Upside's behalf – heavens
to Betsy, we've been known to make typos ourselves
– witness our first article on this Hammer speech
today… µ
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