RSSAMD's Clawhammer - Its Got Teeth!
By Aaron Dobbins | Published November 14, 2000, 5:30 PM
At COMDEX yesterday AMD once again turned up the heat on rival Intel by announcing in 2002 its new processor, the ClawHammer, will slam into the market at 2GHz...and that's just for starters. The ClawHammer is just the first in the new Hammer processor family which brings a newer, faster architecture and 64-bit processing to the table.
John Spooner over at ZDNet reports "the chip will include extensions to the X86 processor instruction set that will take it from 32-bit addressing to 64-bit addressing."
The new processor will come in small, medium, and large as it will be found in high-end desktops, mobile computers, servers, and workstations. Its followup, the still heavier-hitting SledgeHammer will be used in four- and eight-way servers.
On top of the new family of high power processors AMD also announced that over the course of the next 8 months or so it plans to release a whopping 8 new processors, including new Durons. These will be based on the Mustang core.
Consumers will also see the Palomino, offspring of the Mustang core, reving up to 1.2 and 1.33GHz the first quarter of next year. By the second half of 2001 the Palomino is expected to reach 1.7GHz according to Spooner's report.
To read the rest of the lengthy Spooner report on AMD and the future of its processors, visit ZDNet. It is packed with excellent information if you are interested.
Sure that's ****ing fast, but do we need that much speed these days? I dunno about you guys but it's the GPU and ram that are slowing my computer, not the processor.
We need to start up a speed war in those two areas! :-)
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|That's what they said with the 100 MHz, 200 MHz, 400 MHz and so on. :)
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|Real men use Alpha CPUs :)
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|if you can handle the amount of power required and the amount of heat that they produce when running.
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|good good good faster = better
i would like some info on the CPUs tho anyone know anywhere?
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|Isn't this contrary to most reports that the Mustang core had been abandoned by AMD? Maybe I'm just tripping, but I'm pretty sure that's whats been more widely reported...
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|Not quite.
You see, Mustang was supposed to be a SERVER processor, with a few improvements (better BPU, lower power consumption, better speed grades) as well as a big server-like L2 cache. They killed the Mustang PROCESSOR, but the core (with the improvements, minus the cache) lives on as Palomino
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|Will it plug into Socket A or are they going to have a new interface called "Socket Wrench"?
Sounds very nice though.
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|*DROOL*
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|OH MAN.... now i have to change my boxers..... =)
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|I hear ya...
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