What is Tom hiding from us about AMD?

[Czar]

<< Hammer (whether you're talking ClawHammer or SledgeHammer) isn't targeted at the same market Itanium is (I assume you mean McKinley when you say "Itanium"). >>


in the end both will compete for the same market, while amd will have been running the 64bit consumer market.. unless intel comes out with its hybrid cpu.. intel will have to compete with big support with little support.

 

[sandorski]

Hmm, perhaps "Thors Hammer", a joint venture between AMD and Nokia!!

 

[Windogg]

A 32,000 2Ghz Sledgehammer Beowulf cluster in 16,000 dual CPU 1U cases on 762 standard racks?

I can only hope

Windogg

 

[MasterHoss]

Hmm, maybe the reason why they trademarked Meteron and Opteron (or whatever the names were) have something to do with the "big thing" happening at the end of this year.

Perhaps AMD is going to bring back Transformers with the 2 trademarked names as new characters? Sorry, had to say it. Honestly, I have no idea... this is the first I've heard about something special happening... you have to wonder if AMD is just pulling everyone's leg.

 

[billyjak]

Here's an interesting reading about 2001 and Monolith Read here

 

[AGodspeed]

What is Tom hiding from us about AMD?

Perhaps it's this?

 

[Sohcan]

<< in the end both will compete for the same market, while amd will have been running the 64bit consumer market.. unless intel comes out with its hybrid cpu.. intel will have to compete with big support with little support. >>

Sledgehammer is targeted for 2- to 8-way workstations and low-end servers (ie, against the Xeon MP) whereas McKinley is targeted towards up to 1400-way systems...those are slightly different markets. The Itanium family is aiming its guns towards Sun's Ultrasparc platform, not Hammer. In this market, enterprise support from IBM, HP, Unisys, SGI, Compaq and others are more important than Microsoft.

 

[Nemesis77]

Maybe he talks about the x86-64 port of Mac OS X?

 

[Diable]

Also if AMD can't get atleast one tier-one box maker to offer a Sledgehammer based workstation or server Intel will have even less to worry about.

 

[Siddhartha]

"Maybe he talks about the x86-64 port of Mac OS X? "

This is the only AMD rumor I have read lately that could be described as a paradign shift.

 

[MrGrim]

It's bound to be something lame. It always is, we get all excited and then we find out that they changed the name of something or that they included "Amazingly Advanced Technology That Does F*ck All" in their latest product. Of course "their" = everybody and not just AMD.

 

[ProviaFan]

<< It's bound to be something lame. It always is, we get all excited and then we find out that they changed the name of something or that they included "Amazingly Advanced Technology That Does F*ck All" in their latest product. Of course "their" = everybody and not just AMD. >>


Yea, I don't think it's good to get one's hopes up based on little announcements like this.