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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12664)	10/10/2000 7:03:12 PM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

Jim, surely it wouldn't be the fact that Hammer won't be released until 6 months after Whistler ships, would it? <g> -Doug ...particularly for the benefit of those (sadly, numerous) readers who hit the send button before they get to the end of the sentence. August is a plausible target ship date for Whistler, given that it's aimed at mid-2001, and if you're fairly relaxed about launch, first shipments and volume production (which, particularly these days, Intel is) then you could figure August as coming just after widespread Itanium availability. AMD meanwhile says it will announce the "Hammer" family of processors at the end of 2001, so our questioner was possibly somewhat premature.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12664)	10/10/2000 7:15:05 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 275872

Jim, <Anyone seen this? I guess Microsoft has to spend the money fighting the government. theregister.co.uk From the register... "MS drags feet on AMD Sledgehammer support> The guy who wrote this has no understanding of what he is writing about. Whistler is mid-2001 and Sledgehammer is 2002. Also, unless I am mistaken, Whistler is targetted toward desktops and not servers. (someone correct me if I am wrong). I have not heard of anyone talking about 64-bit support for Whistler. Given how poorly things are going with Merced I am sure there are a lot of people in Microsoft who favor x86-64. It will help AMD's case a lot if AMD can deliver working silicon early next year. Chuck