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No AthlonXP Recalls

By Steve Gibson, Oct 19, 2001 7:24am PDT

In order to stifle a few rumors we've been getting about AthlonXP recalls, HardOCP got a hold of an AMD rep who stated very clearly that no...

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" it was rumored in Taiwan and reported (as a rumor) on Hardocp 2 days ago and yesterday Hardocp ..."

- .spanky. see all 4 comments

AMD Posts Losses

By Steve Gibson, Oct 17, 2001 3:26pm PDT

Many people attributed the Intel 77% net earnings drop posting yesterday to AMD kicking their butts. Guess that isnt the only contributor though as...

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" I get assraped even when the company I work for does well. What company do you work for ? :D"

- bugaboo2 see all 24 comments

Hammer PDF Presentation

By Maarten Goldstein, Oct 16, 2001 8:02am PDT

If you want to know about that AMD Hammer stuff (story), there is a PDF file of the presentation on the AMD website.

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"Best guess as to when the MC Hammer jokes and references will end..... 2008"

- johnny rotten see all 6 comments

AMD Hammer Announced

By Steve Gibson, Oct 15, 2001 4:52pm PDT

As was expected, AMD has made official the announcement of their new CPU line code named Hammer. The new CPU will be chugging along with that nifty...

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" hehe, okay I was trolling. I also admit *gasp* that linux has a place in the server segment. ..."

- Grigory see all 48 comments

AMD Hammer Today

By Steve Gibson, Oct 15, 2001 3:58am PDT

Woah cool, AMD is going to be announcing the new Hammer CPU technology. Their new next-gen stuff which should hopefully compete with the P4 as it...

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" No way will the .18 make it, maybe "XP" fake mhz but not real 2.4ghz"

- abrasion see all 15 comments

AMD AthlonMP Unveiled

By Steve Gibson, Oct 15, 2001 3:57am PDT

AMD has also put out a multi-processor version of the AthlonXP being called the AthlonMP. You can take a quick look at the Tech-Report , AMDMB ,...

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" yeah, its been running in my kg7-raid pretty nicely at 1.4ghz, 1.5ghz is a little unstable."

- Adrenaline see all 10 comments

AthlonXP Unveiled

By Steve Gibson, Oct 09, 2001 6:43am PDT

AMD has unveiled the new AthlonXP CPU this morning with reviews galore showing up at all the regular hardware websites you'd expect. The AthlonXP...

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" I thought it was like every 33-40 mhz they up the xp rating 100 more?"

- Cheesedog_3:16 see all 293 comments

AMD Revenue Drops

By Steve Gibson, Oct 05, 2001 6:23am PDT

Bum deal for AMD, looks like they've recently had sales that were even worse than expected. They also recently got shafted by a major PC vendor not...

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"I'll still be buying AMD cpu's for my next one..... Could wind up like "super 7" - most ..."

- abrasion see all 82 comments

AMD Happenings

By Maarten Goldstein, Oct 01, 2001 6:30am PDT

The big news sites are finally reporting on the new AMD processor releases that are coming up. CNet reports that AMD will release a 1.1Ghz Duron...

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" "past performance is no indicator of future returns" correct, kind of like how the m16 was ..."

- Turd Ferguson see all 31 comments

AMD XP Driver

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 30, 2001 8:52am PDT

AMD has posted a new IDE driver that adds Windows XP support. Thanks Blues News.

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"wow... i bet that really made your day... in other words.. get friggen life or clue"

- CaptCaveman see all 2 comments

AMD Palominos Shipping Soon

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 28, 2001 10:33am PDT

The Register is reporting that AMD will be shipping the new Athlons on October 9. These are the ones using the new core and have the freaky XP name.

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AMD Job Cuts

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 25, 2001 1:37pm PDT

Everyone is hurting from the economic downturn and so is AMD. They have announced job cuts. Some 2300 people will lose their jobs, partly from...

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Gateway Drops AMD

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 25, 2001 6:56am PDT

ZDNet is reporting that Gateway is dropping AMD as a chip supplier and will go back to Intel as its sole chip supplier. AMD had been supplying...

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" I hate to say it. But I never had a failure with my Gateway either. It still runs to this very ..."

- MarksmanX see all 47 comments

Athlon Naming

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 19, 2001 6:30am PDT

So supposedly AMD is going to be naming their CPUs Athlon XP now. The Register has a list of what each XP number will represent in actual Ghz.

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"That's right, it's all about the marketing. Why would a gamer/power user/whatever CARE what they ..."

- booyaka see all 26 comments

Via 4in1 v4.33 Drivers

By Steve Gibson, Sep 10, 2001 7:14am PDT

ViaHardware has word on the v4.33 final (non-beta) release 4in1 drivers for folks running Via chipset motherboards. Always worth grabbing if you're...

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" Err wrong thread :) It was meant for The new Nvidia drivers :)"

- MarksmanX see all 16 comments