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To: Joe NYC who wrote (151806)	2/24/2005 9:56:16 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

An interesting roadmap. FX-57 in Q2 would be good. Hopefully it is ready in time for the Smithfield reviews. It will be good to have an even faster single core A64 FX to kick Smithfield Extreme Edition around in the single-thread benchmarks and make up a bit of lost ground on the multi-threaded ones. The dual core Athlon 64 FX CPUs only list 1MB L2. Is that 2x1MB or 2x512KB? The range of 1.6-2.4GHz is odd for the Athlon 64 FX. I wouldn't expect AMD to release at least a few different cores at the same time. The 1.6GHz core would have to be priced quite a bit lower than traditional Athlon 64 FX pricing. A 2.8GHz Winchester would pretty much kill the "D stepping can't ramp and has poor yields" theories. No info on the 4400+ is odd. Is it a 2.8GHz 1MB L2 cache CPU? I would assume it is Venice core. I wonder if Venice would have any clock-for-clock performance increase over Winchester to increase the rating without increasing frequency or cache.