Pricewatch now has PC3200 DDR on the front page 256M=$86, 512M=$195.
<<Dual channels would also require some incrase in latency.>>
<Why is that?>
For the same reason that CAS 2 usually won't work with 2 DIMM's instead of 1. Imagine with 4, 6 or 8 DIMM's installed.
< Now, with all the benchmarks rigged this way, and AMD fully aware of the fact how the benchmarks have been rigged, AMD knows where the trap is, but they are walking right into this trap.>
Would it have been wise to count on Sledgehammer beating it's schedule, like it apparently did? Even having working silicon now, it would take a lot longer to qualify motherboard designs with 2 64-bit channels compared to one. It's pretty obvious to me that if Clawhammer arrives in October, it won't take 6 more months -- more like 3 -- to get to Sledgehammer. What would it give AMD to drop Clawhammer? If they could speed up SLedgehammer intro by one month, they'd be lucky, so they'd still be hammer-less for two months.
EDIT - And with the 0.13u process apparently requiring several iterations to get good yields, it behooves AMD to start with the smaller-die-size Clawhammer before the larger Sledgehammer.
Don't forget that dual core Clawhammer systems WILL have two channels of 64 bits.
Finally, with PC3200 already available, I have no doubt that Via and SiS will support PC3200 for Clawhammer before 2003.
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