Hammer' :: My Take. No doubt all of you have read the 'The First Hammer Board Hits the THG Lab' article on the front page of THG. I would just like to put my 'money where my mouth is' and say that I have full faith in AMD producing a Clawhammer system, on...

itanium, you are sorely mistaken. There are strong signs there ALREADY IS a windows for the hammer, so why dont you take the fud and fff elsewhere :-). :wink: The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark :wink: Windows xp 64 for itanium fits...

link but at least 5 companies (including IBM) have already made compilers for the Hammer 64-bit extensions. Secondly, Microsoft has already stated its making a 64-bit OS for Hammer. Go listen to AMDs conference call made around Jamuary. They even stated the...

technology, is the increased pin count you'd need in order to maintain a dedicated link to each of the other components. Notice how many pins are on the Hammers. This takes a lot to manufacturer and test and a lot to maintain. A second side-effect is that...

But thats only the registers (or rather, some registers I presume). On a more general note, I agree with IIB that Hammer and Itanium are not really direct competitors. Hammer will take P4 Xeons head to head instead, using the 64 bit extentions as a free...

things, what's on paper is hardly ever translated into reality. I'm an underdog fan myself, so AMD get's my vote. What will happen(no degree of error) as long as the current time tables are followed: 1)Hammer will take market share form intel in mid/high...

and don't overclock. In many of those cases they could be getting a similar priced CPU and get more out of them. I have not spread BS about how Hammer is gonna crush everything, instead I think that Hammer will have a tough time against Prescott. Hammer...

since AMD is certain that they won't be able to supply many at release, and that it might take until Q1 '03 to get enough into the retail market. Also, by devoting parts of the fab to Hammer only, they take away lines from the profitable AXP lines, unless...

mind you Socket A has lasted a long time compaired to other formats, so thats quite a good thing why do sockets need changing? is there a theoretical maximum amount of power that for instance socket A can take?? there must be a reason that Hammer will take...