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To: milo_morai who wrote (160397)	2/27/2002 2:26:32 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Fine, Milo, I'll dignify the second half of your response (though, really, you should have proof-read before submitting something so easily disputable). "I agree it's time to finish forging and to harden the sword, but I for one wasn't expecting to see Sledge this soon and I think you weren't either." AMD demoed the Clawhammer processor, of which I have already admitted was both surprising and pleasing to me as an AMD investor. Sledgehammer, as I have already stated, is trivial, now that Clawhammer has finished A0 tapeout, and is booting 64-bit operating systems, and running cross-compiled code. The platform, however, will not be trivial, Milo, and AMD has yet to announce anything along the lines of 4-way or 8-way systems. Either they are saving the best for last, or they are still in the design phases. With your limited experience in working with multiprocessor systems, I'll assume that you have trouble believing that adding more than two CPUs is any harder than adding the first two. Let me assure you, however, that it is, and that AMD will certainly have problems along the way. They may get through these issues, but it's not likely that we'll see Sledgehammer CPUs at the same time as Clawhammer, and as AMD's own roadmap suggests, they may lag by a quarter or more. wbmw