AMD Hammer Date Slips

by Steve Gibson, Sep 13, 2002 8:37am PDT

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By: MarksmanX x Show Full Post

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NOOOOO! Don't fuck up AMD! That's what happened to 3Dfx! Lastthing I want is to pay those insane prices for intel chips when Doom III is released.

Sep 13, 2002 8:48am PDT

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NOOOOO! Don't fuck up AMD! That's what happened to 3Dfx! Lastthing I want is to pay those insane prices f... : MarksmanX
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  Well current cpus' can run doom3, so I cant imagine they will be hiking up the prices for these current c... : Rageaholic
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    AMD not having a viable competing chip = bad for all of us. I don't wanna pay Ã‚Â£250 for a low e... : Toraz Chryx
    - er.. around two-thirds of that even.. Ã‚Â£215 verses Ã‚Â£135 For some reason I had a ment... : Toraz Chryx
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    This is Carmack! Once he sees that we will be going 4GHz within that year, he's going to do some insane t... : MarksmanX
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      He is also very interested in what he can do with 64-bit architecture. Have you forgotten that?? And ho... : valiance
      
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      I thought he was pushing for 64bit graphics cards now cpus : Unleashed
      
      Both :) But he is stressing more on the 64-bit videocard than the 64-processors. But he said if the deman... : MarksmanX
      
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      Actually you would need a 64-bit OS to take advantage of it. Carmack did say he will be working on it but... : MarksmanX
      
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      Here's an idea, ignore IA-64 completely because it sucks unless a major amount of money is thrown at it? ... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      We don't know about their revision II of the IA-64 yet. Maybe they learned something? :) : MarksmanX
      
      Itanium-II does perform fairly well (especially compared with Merced), but it is NOT in any way a commodi... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      link? the only thing i remember him saying about 64bit was this A 64 bit binary is likely to be sligh : Turd Ferguson
      
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      yeah thats the only thing I remember him saying too.. : Unleashed
      
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      Odd that. Carmack says he is not interested in a 64 bit Doom binary, but yet people say that he wants 64 ... : Cless
      
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      Carmack could probably find a use for 64bit precision single-cycle floating point hardware.. :) I thin : Toraz Chryx
      
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      Perhaps. I'm sure there are cases where most people would want to be able to use doubles, but if single p... : Cless
      
      yeah, but this is John Carmack we're talking about, the man who wants 64bit framebuffers so that his ligh... : Toraz Chryx
      
      I like Carmack and all but I don't I don't have every /. link. It was news here also if I recall. : MarksmanX
      
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      Factors you're forgetting: 1) Itanium cores SUCK TOTALLY for x86-32bit code 2) Clawhammer will be price... : Toraz Chryx
      
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      I was under the impression Italian was a pure 64-bit processor not a 32/64 hybrid. So I thought that was ... : MarksmanX
      
      Itanium is a pure 64bit processor with onboard x86-32 emulation hardware... expect an 800Mhz Merced to pe... : Toraz Chryx

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By: kaboomite x Show Full Post

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Has anyone released information on the mobo chipsets that will support Hammer, or will they have to design new ones?

Sep 13, 2002 10:23am PDT

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Has anyone released information on the mobo chipsets that will support Hammer, or will they have to desig... : kaboomite
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- new ones, Nvidia, SiS, Ali, AMD and VIA have all shown them off already though. : Toraz Chryx

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By: valiance x Show Full Post

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This is old news :) As if anyone actually thought we would see the 64/32-bit monster THIS YEAR??? I didn't think of it for even a moment. It clearly will come out in 2003, and I know what they are doing now is putting all their efforts into the ClawHammer. This is why Intel has the edge right now, because they are continuing to progress on their P4 platform, while AMD has to invest significantly less into their current CPU lines to focus on making ClawHammer a success. An investment leads to a reward. Sounds fine to me. AMD is thinking longer-term than the immediate few months.

Sep 13, 2002 10:00am PDT

This is old news :) As if anyone actually thought we would see the 64/32-bit monster THIS YEAR??? I did... : valiance

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