AMD touts Athlon and Opteron, pointing out that Hammer-based servers don’t require different chipsets for systems with one, two, four or eight processors–unlike Intel-based machines. Via will release its first Hammer chipsets in late 2002, the same time the chip will begin to ship to manufacturers. MandrakeSoft will adapt its distribution of Linux to Advanced Micro Devices’ next-generation chip platform, the companies said on Thursday.
Flexible Hammer Knocks on Server Doors
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Hmm .. I haven’t bought a new desktop in three years. Hammer will change that
Go AMD, go!
… if the price and performance are ok.
Anyway, AMD prices have always been more than acceptable, the problem is their CPU’s heat and power supply consumption (for me).
Looks like SuSE would be getting some competition. No no wait, SuSE is much better than Mandrake so it doesn’t matter 🙂
Anyway, AMD prices have always been more than acceptable, the problem is their CPU’s heat and power supply consumption (for me).
For the past few product releases, AMD had been reducing the operating heat and power supply consumption. Clawhammer would most likely do that. Well, it would be cooler than the current processors because it has a smaller die, it uses 0.13micron (0.09micron coming middle next year) and SOI… 🙂
Power consumption doesn’t differ too much between P4 Northwood and Athlon Thoroughbred. Have a look here:
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000368
Northwood 2.2 GHz numbers are mentioned in the text below the table. AMD’s bigger problem is, that Thoroughbred’s die size is much smaller than Northwood’s, so they have their heat dissipation concentrated on a smaller area.
rajan r:
I think it’s unlikely that AMD will migrate to 90nm next year already. Gotta have some ROI for the current 130nm equipment…
Chris
>> Via will release its first Hammer chipsets in late 2002<<
God help us all…
…I thought AMD wanted this to be a success in the server field…
AMD docs says 70W, it will go down later but I don’t see that happening until a yr later. The current Hammer is slooow right now 800MHz so there is still tweaking to be done.
>>high-speed, chip-to-chip interconnection protocol invented >>by AMD. To obtain data, processors
That should have said API, which was part of Compaq & before that Digital but it is now part of AMD since Alpha went away.
I just hope that EMBASSY chip doesn’t get on the board as well.
Corrections:
1) A0 silicon is 800MHz. Most chips don’t even work in A0 silicon!
2) AMD invented hypertransport. They’re not talking EV6.
My friend,
2) AMD invented hypertransport. They’re not talking EV6.
I do believe that API a former div of Digital, then partner of Compaq invented Lightning Data Transport (now called HyperTransport or HT) as part of the Alpha server project. An old coworker of mine GT led the team at API for the last few years, and is now a Fellow of AMD. API was gutted by the Compaq scuttling, & 200 API people became 30 AMD employees just down the street from here. It’s all on the web.
AMD did organise the HyperTransport org and is the chief champion of HT today & may have been working with API for quite a while. I am hoping to visit them soon about something else.
I think it’s unlikely that AMD will migrate to 90nm next year already. Gotta have some ROI for the current 130nm equipment…
Well, I was just quoting out of their roadmap… which anyway was wrong because Thoroughbred came out around 2 months late
God help us all…
…I thought AMD wanted this to be a success in the server field…
AMD docs says 70W, it will go down later but I don’t see that happening until a yr later. The current Hammer is slooow right now 800MHz so there is still tweaking to be done.
The prototype is 800mhz. AMD probably wouldn’t release the 800mhz version but a faster version. And like all prototypes, it meant to have flaws.
I really don’t know what’s the problem with VIA chipset. I have been using them since…. I dunno, when I was 5? (LOL) But I never had a problem.