Hammer time in March/April

Yep. Thanks to Tony Fernando for mailing us with this story.

AMD will introduce its Hammer architecture in March/April next year, its chief financial officer said at the Credit Suisse FB Tech Conference today in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Without being unduly cynical, that's what its chipset partners told us when we met them at Computex in June, although AMD had originally boasted it could introduce Hammer chips in time for Christmas.

And AMD is poised to increase our market share in the commercial market. "AMD is working with several partners to capitalise in this new environment."

He claimed that AMD had already made several wins in the corporate sector, but, he added: "Our efforts in the enterprise are only just beginning." Growth will be in the 32-bit and 64-bit X86 sectors. "That's the definition of AMD's Opteron."

He claimed: "The Opteron is a Xeon killer". It will be a good opportunity both for selling units and for good average selling prices. "Opteron has dramatically superior performance in 32-bit mode," he said. SPEC was examining that performance...

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