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Is AMD going to counter with a new chip when the P4 Comes out?

thats cool. So that will be perfect for building my system Late 200/Early 2001. By that time, they will be available and the price will have dropped a little bit.
 
I think with the allegedly very backward compatible Sledgehammer around the corner (1 year at least, that is), it would be odd for AMD to radically update the actual core. I don't think they can. No time and I guess the Sledgehammer will be the premium product and the K7s like the K6-II Yes, they will just fiddle with the cache and bus I suppose.
 
I don't think the sledgehammer will be geared towards the consumer desktop market anytime soon, probably not until 2002. That's why AMD is enhancing the Athlon core right now.
 
I wish people would stop even considering Itanium and Sledgehammer in arguments relevant to real people. If you aren't a Netadmin, Itanium and Sledgehammer won't affect you for years. AMD has every reason to continue their consumer line of products. The Tbird alone won't be capable of staying with the P4 core forever (Intel is already planning the newer revs of p4). AMD must stay competitive in the consumer space, and try to build some of the brand reconition, respect, and influence of Intel. Besides Intel is now developing a 32bit p8 (p5=pentium, p6=ppro, p7=p4) core, and even if they can't force a change completely on their own (rambus), they're perfectly capable of keeping the average user with a 32 bit CPU.
 
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