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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (135372)	5/17/2001 1:01:44 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Unless I'm mistaken, the first K8 will be Clawhammer, and that's meant for desktops and workstations. AMD's plans for the high-end revolve around Sledgehammer, which according to the roadmap enables 4-way and 8-way SMP. That is AMD's real answer to McKinley. You've got a good point there, but I thought that they shared essentially the same core. If so, then its either going to be overpowered and impossible to economically manufacture for the desktop market, or ridiculously underpowered when compared with the IA-64 tier. If they are vastly different cores, AMD might be able to make the positioning, but I really think they've bitten off more than they can chew with this one. They seem to be counting on anti-IA-64 backlash. That may have worked if the chips were out today, but by the time they're out IA-64 will be the standard....