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ClawHammer to Launch on October 28th?

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AGodspeed

Diamond Member
***CONFIRMED*** 😉

SOURCES CLOSE TO AMD's plans continue to tell us that the 28th of October date we're currently projecting appears so far to be spot on.
And we also have projected prices of both processors and motherboards, with CPUs costing $400 and mobos hovering around the high $200 mark, as an initial thrust into the marketplace.

The reference boards and CPUs are already with the partners, it appears, with Clawhammers running at full, rather than half speed.

When ? and it now seems to be a when ? Barton is released, the Thoroughbred will replace the Duron until demand for the Athlon weakens, we understand.

Then ? following ineluctable laws of X86 processors ? the Barton will be the "Duron" and the "Clawhammer" is the XP branded chip.

We believe that our source is also spot on with this observation ? that AMD will produce two mobos with a Gigabyte branding, because there still is a perception in the corporate marketplace that the firm is all too ready to dump high quality and stable chipsets.

As for SIS, Nvidia and Via, the same source reckons that these might be ready for action in the first quarter of next year, but perhaps as early as January 2003. µ
 


<< Maybe they should release it Dec 25 & call it the Santa Claushammer.😀 >>



:Q😀
 


<< Kind of took the wind out of Van's Summer release huh?????😉 LOL!🙂 >>

Well kinda. Van said it would start shipping in June, not a release date. Although Van and The Inq should always be taken with some type of salt. 😉
 


<< hmm, I wouldn't use a ***confirmed*** when the source is the inquirer.

To me, comdex seems more likely. >>

Actually, it's implicity understood by most that ***CONFIRMED*** really means unconfirmed when you talking about The Inq. But I'll edit the post a little. 🙂
 


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<< Kind of took the wind out of Van's Summer release huh?????😉 LOL!🙂 >>

Well kinda. Van said it would start shipping in June, not a release date. Although Van and The Inq should always be taken with some type of salt. 😉 >>



LOL! Van should be "taken" with a tandem load of Rock Salt.................

The Inquirer with at least a shovel full over the left shoulder..................

😉🙂😉🙂😉🙂
 


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<< Kind of took the wind out of Van's Summer release huh?????😉 LOL!🙂 >>

Well kinda. Van said it would start shipping in June, not a release date. Although Van and The Inq should always be taken with some type of salt. 😉 >>



LOL! Van should be "taken" with a tandem load of Rock Salt.................

The Inquirer with at least a shovel full over the left shoulder..................

😉🙂😉🙂😉🙂 >>


LMAO!!! 😀
 


<< I still have my doubts that we will see wide availability this year. >>

AMD has said that debugged (i.e. final) ClawHammer's would be shipped by Q2. Guessing that this means late June, that would give a lot of weight to a October 28th release date (i.e. availability) assuming that:

1. UMC can ship ample supplies of Bartons/Tbreds for availability by October 28th.
2. Chipset and mainboard makers ship their final ClawHammer products on time.
3. OEM's want to market ClawHammer as much or more than the Athlon XP.

But yeah, I'm skeptical as well. But every indication I've seen says that ClawHammer will very likely ship by Q4, meaning January/February availability.
 
We believe that our source is also spot on with this observation ? that AMD will produce two mobos with a Gigabyte branding, because there still is a perception in the corporate marketplace that the firm is all too ready to dump high quality and stable chipsets.


What does this mean. Will there be AMD branded mobos made by gigabyte?
 


<< We believe that our source is also spot on with this observation ? that AMD will produce two mobos with a Gigabyte branding, because there still is a perception in the corporate marketplace that the firm is all too ready to dump high quality and stable chipsets.


What does this mean. Will there be AMD branded mobos made by gigabyte? >>


yeah i'm confused on that too, will AMD manufacture them, and just slap a gigabyte label on them? or the other way around? or will AMD just endorse them or what....
 

I'm really looking forward to the release of the Clawhammer. Seems to get a highly interesting year (Clawhammer, G5 (?), UT 2003, Doom 3 etc.). I wonder about Intel's answer ?
 


<< BTW : i'm new to this forum, a big hello to all. I hope we will have a good time together at this place 😉 >>


nice to meetcha 😀

warning: stay out of off topic!!!!!!!!!!!

(i am NOT being sarcastic, i dont let myself go there anymore....its a massive waste of time and too many dumb/immature/wierd/fake people, etc etc)

use AT forums for what they're meant for: computer stuff 🙂
 
Hmmmm 6 months til Hammer... do I stay with what I have now and wait...or upgrade now and make it a 6 month rotation? 😀

Decisions, decisions.
 


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<< BTW : i'm new to this forum, a big hello to all. I hope we will have a good time together at this place 😉 >>


nice to meetcha 😀

warning: stay out of off topic!!!!!!!!!!!

(i am NOT being sarcastic, i dont let myself go there anymore....its a massive waste of time and too many dumb/immature/wierd/fake people, etc etc) >>



Watch it buddy, Off-topic is Anandtech at it's finest!

As to the MoBo's... The reference MoBo was made by Gigabyte, that does not mean that there will be AMD-branded boards being made by Gigabyte. There were Athlon reference MoBo's made back in the day. They are just that, reference-platforms. Since AMD is not in the MoBo-business, they outsourced the making of those MoBo's to someone else, in this case to Gigabyte.
 


<< 'm really looking forward to the release of the Clawhammer. Seems to get a highly interesting year (Clawhammer, G5 (?), UT 2003, Doom 3 etc.). I wonder about Intel's answer >>

Prescott. Mid 03. Until then, the Northwood to about 3Ghz, end of this year? or was it 2.8-9?
 
The speculation around here is that Barton = ClawHAMMER. The HAMMER family was supposed to be a whole new socket while Barton is supposed to be pin-compatible with the Thoroughbred. If Barton = ClawHAMMER then the latter statement is false. Well, I guess they could make Barton work in both socket designs but what is the point?
 
No, they could never make Barton work in a CH socket. Why? On a CH socket, the traces for the memory controller to memory are not Chipset to Memory slots like it would need to be on Barton, you see what I am saying? not to mention the traces nedded for HT as well would not be compatible with Barton. Barton will be a Socket 462 part, and will likely turn out to be AMD's "value" CPU while the Athlon "Hammer" will be the high end.

<< I wonder about Intel's answer ? >>

People say Prescott, but to be quite honest, I don't think Prescott should even be a factor because it is going to be a year after Hammer is out before Prescott launches, so to be quite honest, Intel doesn't have an answer, other than MHz, and with current roadmaps, I think Intel is going to have big time trouble on their hands. Right now, Intel's roadmaps have a 2.86GHz NW-B (533fsb part) being out in Q4 (about the time of the Hammer launch), and really, the thing is, forget Hammer, a Barton 2GHz would be able to compete with that, and I think we can agree that a 2GHz CH will simply rip apart a NW-B at 2.86GHz, so to be honest, I'm a tad worried if I'm Intel. AMD clearly will have the performance lead, but I honestly sense that there is going to be huge OEM support this time, and AMD's main issue with the Athlon will be solved as well. We'll see, but its definately not looking terribly bright for Intella.
 


<< ClawHammer to Launch on October 28th? >>

what does this REALLY mean? does it mean it'll be available in october?

or will this be yet another paper release from AMD, like the t-bred is?

i for one, am not going to anticipate being able to buy a hammer until at least march. they've been late on their last couple chips, why would they not be late on this one too.
 
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