Talk about 8th generation AMD CPUs

[Trigor]

Does anyone has an idea when we can expect Atholon Hammer. We know it will bee at the end of the year but can anyone be more specific. And wich name you think will AMD assaign to it.

 

[microAmp]

I think the release date range was beginning of 4th quarter 2002 to end of 1st quarter 2003, one site did a bit of investigation on a new word that AMD said, 'Rolling Thunder' and they think maybe by the end of the year, December.

IIRC the names are Athlon 64 and Operton.

 

[paralazarguer]

You already posted this question here.
I will answer this post the same way. Opteron is the name of the commercial chip sort of like Xeon vs pentium
It will carry the name Athlon. The official story is that it will be availabe at the end of this year only to major OEMs but it will not be availbe to consumers until 2003. Hoever, every major AMD processor release has always been late by about 2-3months. Thouroughbred was supposed to come out in March and many tech sites even confirmed a launch date. Three months later....With AMD there's no way to tell. I'm rather pessimistic and I say march of next year if they rework the memory controller which they will have to do to stay competitive (they would have to mass produce now to release at end of year) but the official line is that it will be available to consumers in 2003.