This is SURE to be an unpopular post.......but, need to know the news from BOTH sides right?????:Q
Taken from Inquirer:
I'm sorry.....but some were predicting this in May already......just nobody wanted to hear it!
Taken from Inquirer:
- A DOCUMENT JUST PLACED on its Web site by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is not likely to inspire great hope of things to come soon on the processor front.
The PDF provides information about the CPU ID flags for both the mobile Athlon 4 processor and the Athlon MP chip, each of them having ID 6. But while ID 7 is reserved for the Duron microprocessor, there appears to be no other chip that uses the same number.
Nor, it appears, has AMD made a great deal of headway on supporting SSE2, the instructions Intel will make such a great play of during the second half of this year, starting with a Paul Otellini press conference tomorrow. SSE2 will be in the 64-bit Hammer chip, when that arrives.
The revised and lengthy (seventy pages) application note can be found on the AMD site here
While we are on the subject of AMD, Jerry Sanders !!! said at the latest financial analyst's conference call that the firm's 1GHz Duron processor would be released in Q3 (this Q).
While distributors were at first told that it could be released at the beginning of this month, and Web sites such as ocworkbench.com have indeed had pictures of the beasties up on the site, we (rather, the resellers, not the journalists), are now being told that we'll see a 1GHz Duron in September.
Given that La Intella will introduce its mobile copper Tualatin notebook processors tomorrow, and that it is bringing forward some Celeron howitzers in the shape of 1GHz babies and then later 1GHz+ babies on the copper process, shouldn't AMD have something to say about its future chip strategy and now?
We'd remind readers that the AMD documents we revealed exclusively about the MP platform back in May or whenever it was, talked about 1.8GHz Palomino processors. Is there a problem with capacity at the Darkstar HQ, or is there some more serious difficulty afoot.
Intel, we are pretty sure, has few problems supplying .13 micron Tualatins in its mobile and server flavours - we'd have heard from our network by now if there was any real hiccup. The desktop chip, when it arrives, is a 256K beastie that will be culled by La as soon as its bright and new P4 strategy is in place, and meanwhile AMD seems to have dropped back, somewhat exhausted by the struggle during the first half of this year.
August is an important season in the PC industry because resellers, OEMs and others are gearing up for the traditionally strong Q3/Q4 selling period. The recession seems to be militating against things being very bright for the second half of this year, but that won't have meant AMD will have ground to a halt.
Hector Ruiz, AMD's Jerry-Sanders-in-Waiting, told investors at the same conference that it could deliver SOI (silicon on insulation) and .13 micron technology starting in Q4. We'd like to know if this is correct, and upon it will depend the microprocessor battle ground next year.
Because, as it stands, unless AMD gets its skates on and quick, Intel will have had its .13 micron kit out in the field for a full seven months before we see samples from its major competitor. And Via will have had its .13 micron kit out even longer.
The AMD marketing/PR push seems to have slowed right down. Perhaps someone would care to tell us just what is going on in the Deathstar State?
I'm sorry.....but some were predicting this in May already......just nobody wanted to hear it!
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