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To: milo_morai who wrote (59703)	10/23/2001 9:56:13 AM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

milo: "AMD is clearly not the company it was a few years ago. They are constantly making steps towards becoming more of an industry leader as opposed to the follower they have been criticized of being for so long; the Hammer architecture is the most vivid depiction of what sort of an industry leader AMD is capable of being." I like the AMD trend: wildly successful Athy over the past two years and Hammer potential that currently has the earmarks of dwarfing in magnitude the wildly successful Athy of the past 2 years...

To: milo_morai who wrote (59703)	10/23/2001 11:34:53 AM
From: crazyoldman	Respond to of 275872

Milo, Re: Hammer I Love this part of the article... When AMD first revealed the K7 architecture at the Microprocessor Forum in 1998 who would have thought that the Athlon would turn out to be this successful? This two-year old micro architecture from AMD has been able to dethrone Intel's Pentium III and make many users think twice before adopting the Pentium 4 platform. Today the Athlon XP boasts the highest desktop performance of any x86 processors and it does so based on the K7 architecture that was originally introduced at MPF. Thanks for your link. anandtech.com Kindest Regards, CrazyMan

To: milo_morai who wrote (59703)	10/23/2001 11:53:54 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

The two Hammer based processors we do know about that are codenamed SledgeHammer and ClawHammer (server and performance desktop respectively) should begin sampling in the second half of 2002. You can equate this sampling to the limited quantities of Athlons that were in the market towards the end of 1999, but hopefully we won't have to endure the same motherboard fiasco with the Hammer line. The real ramp of the Hammer architecture will occur in 2003 where the Athlon will begin to fade out of the picture. Obviously Anand doesn't think the Hammer is as far behind as some here. Should make for some excitement in 2H02.