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To: survivin who wrote (2433)	7/26/2000 10:08:29 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 275872

Acer Labs launch DDR chipset for Athlon in Notebook Acer Laboratories resets launch of DDR chip set for Athlon in notebook PCs By Jack Robertson Semiconductor Business News (07/19/00, 02:47:04 PM EDT) SAN JOSE--The off-again, on-again double data rate (DDR) chip set from Acer Laboratories Inc. is back on schedule to be introduced next week for computers, based on Athlon processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Recently, Taiwan's Acer Laboratories canceled plans to introduce the DDR chip set at the Platform 2000 Conference here this week. ALI officials decided to hold back on the launch because the ICs had not finished testing. But now that the testing is completed, ALI plans to introduce the chip set on July 26 (next Wednesday). The DDR chip set is supposed to be the first for notebook computers, based on AMD's Athlon. A bevy of other chip set suppliers have announced desktop DDR chips supporting the Athlon central processor, including AMD itself, Via Technologies, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), and Micron Technologies.

To: survivin who wrote (2433)	7/27/2000 1:24:30 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

survivin, reconciling the Magee rumor and AMD denial. From the interview at AMD Zone: SledgeHammer... don't expect to see systems this year. What we have said is that SledgeHammer will feature 2 processor die on a singe chip, and that it will feature the x86-64 instruction set. X86-64 is an extension to the current x86 instruction set to enable support for 64 bit operations. Its my opinion that Mustang may basically be a single CPU Sledgehammer, i.e., it may support the X86-64 instruction set. If Compaq has their hands on Mustangs at this point, it would not surprise me and they might be able to get a good handle on Sledgehammer performance via an SMP Mustang system. Petz