Mustang Dead?

[Mark R]

There was a worrying lacuna in AMD's investor conference call this afternoon - Mustang! Where has it gone? Is it dead, or merely resting?

Here's some commentary from Ace's.

The missing element to all of this is Mustang itself, or perhaps Athlon Ultra. Lately, rumors have been flying that the server-variant of Mustang has been canceled in favor of the company's Sledgehammer processor, implementing x86-64. Indeed, there was no information on the future of this chip, and with its expected introduction originally planned for November, there may be some truth to the rumors.

 

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Heard something about this recently too.
Sounds like AMD might just go with Palmino/Morgan and the AMD 760.
Delay the 760MP/770 until summer? 2001 and move up the release date of the hammer series to coincide.

Sucks for all those dreaming of a SMP Athlon.

But not for me since I'm just building a current sys based on KT133 and cheap PC133.

Hammer in summer sounds good to me.