Thoroughbred out in end of May!

[SSXeon5]

WELL, LOOKS LIKE your old INQUIRER, and yours truly, has to eat a slice of good old online humble pie.
We won't see a Thoroughbred being released on the 20th of March, although we will see an XP2100+ at CeBIT next week.

In our original story - AMD Thoroughbred on the 20th of March, we suggested that the next breed of chips might be out very soon but what we did was add one and one, make three, and got our knickers in a good old twist.

In fact, on the 20th of March, many motherboard manufacturers will receive fully working samples of the Thoroughbred - as usual these people are the first to get them so they can make boards that will run properly at release.

Sources a cigarette paper's width away from AMD confirm that's what's happening round about the 20th, and that we won't see fully fledged machines running the Thoroughbred until about eight weeks afterwards.

That chimes with the roadmaps we published in January, and which you can find in AMD roadmaps: fast horses ahead".

We jumped the gun, even though we hedged our bets a bit in the original piece. Sniff. We're sorry.

In other news on the Thoroughbred front, German site Tweak PC claims that AMD might show a 2800+ (2.2GHz) behind the scenes at CeBIT next week. That link is here. c't magazine has also posted some information about Sledgehammer on its site here, and says that when AMD was showing Hammer at the Palomar last week, it had a fully working server reference platform running Sledgehammer.

Highly respected journalist Andreas Stiller also seems to have won his bet with Pat Kicking Gelsinger about the number of patents AMD and Intel registered last year, and has won some Napa Valley wine from Pat, for his prescience.

There's also some supplementary information on Silicon Investor about the c't story, confirming that Clawhammer will only have a single memory bus. µ

From the inquirer ... by that time the B's will be out (2.53Ghz, 2.4Ghz 533Mhz fsb) .....

SSXeon