Despite former CEO Jerry Sander's pro-Microsoft trial testimony, I still believe in AMD's products. This will only give us consumers more and cheaper computing power due to the fierce competition with Intel.
(Sander's testimony was necessary whoring in order to get Microsoft's support in a 64-bit version of Windows, without which the Hammer architecture will never sell. Hopefully the trial Judge saw the overwhelming obviousness of the bought testimony. And hey, that's okay, Hammer kernels were already largely complete for Linux and BSD platforms a long time ago. We will have a sweet 64-bit Unix platform for a very low price within a year or two.) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-895652.html?tag=fd_top In any event, Sanders said that at least Intel will not be able to tout larger megahertz numbers. With Hammer debuting at speeds of at least 2GHz, the chip will run faster than McKinley. Intel will thus be stuck trying to argue that megahertz is important in the desktop space, where it will likely be ahead, and that megahertz is not important in the server space, where it won't be. "You can't have it both ways," Sanders said. Hammer will be marketed under the Athlon brand for the desktop and notebook market and under the Opteron name for the server market. It will be given a performance rating number (an AMD rating) of 3400. (read more in the article)
