According to Vanshardware:
In addition to NVIDIA's nForce recently picking up Compaq as an OEM win, our sources say that Compaq is also qualifying an NVIDIA Clawhammer chipset. Technical details of this chipset are not clear, but Compaq systems utilizing NVIDIA core logic are expected to appear in January, 2003.
Meanwhile, more AMD scuttlebutt has it that the chipmaker is to begin wide shipments of Clawhammer samples to component vendors in June, when the first third party core logic is also expected to be ready. According to our sources, while the broadly rumored October Clawhammer release appears to be technically achievable, the actual date has not yet been committed to by marketing.
In addition to NVIDIA's nForce recently picking up Compaq as an OEM win, our sources say that Compaq is also qualifying an NVIDIA Clawhammer chipset. Technical details of this chipset are not clear, but Compaq systems utilizing NVIDIA core logic are expected to appear in January, 2003.
Meanwhile, more AMD scuttlebutt has it that the chipmaker is to begin wide shipments of Clawhammer samples to component vendors in June, when the first third party core logic is also expected to be ready. According to our sources, while the broadly rumored October Clawhammer release appears to be technically achievable, the actual date has not yet been committed to by marketing.
