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[Elmer Phud]

Do you have any thoughts on WHY the 'hammer' is delayed ??


Hammer was delayed because it doesn't live up to AMD's hype. I firmly believe AMD has known this for many months but had no choice but to continue the wild claims. Who would even consider a hammer design if AMD said "Hey we're going to keep slipping and slipping, our performance will only be mediocre and we don't know if we can even manufacture these things".

AMD's manufacturing problems have been obvious to everyone but the most fanatical AMD zealots for a year or more. Their vapor launches, poor frequency scaling, low fab output and 800MHz hammer samples were dead giveaways to industry insiders. Meanwhile Intel's P4 is scaling with remarkable ease. The addition of Hyper Threading with the upcoming 3.06GHz release will be a fatal nail in AMD's cofin.

This company can't survive.

EP