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To: Yousef who wrote (81463)	6/3/2002 12:55:55 PM
From: Monica Detwiler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yousef: AMD limits Clawhammer to 800MHz I guess AMD should rename it the CrawlHammer. 800 MHz - now how many AMD fan boys would have expected the CrawlHammer to only match up to Intel's original Itanium? Quite a come down for AMD, wouldn't you agree? Monica

To: Yousef who wrote (81463)	6/3/2002 1:01:52 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yousef, interesting link. I found these passages more telling, however. "As mobo makers have axes to grind aplenty against the CPU makers, we weren't surprised to find one or two mainboard makers who felt that AMD was giving people over expectations." ... "He said: "We're trying to tune for performance and not just frequency." When the first Clawhammathlons appear in December, they will be the performance leader and, he claimed, Intel had nothing to match it. "The ball's in our court," he said." ... "What that will mean he said that after we see uniprocessor Clawhammerish systems in December, we'll start to see two way Opterons – he was suggesting that the Chinese and Taiwanese motherboard makers are already working on some such boards." As I suspected, AMD will probably not be early with Hammer. Here are two more mentions of a December release of Hammer with Opteron to follow "later". And, of course, that ever nagging feeling that AMD may have a tough time meeting performance "hype", er... "expectations". wbmw