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John, you and wbmw must be having funky (I don't want to use the other word ) dreams about AMD going out of business. Sure, it's a possibility but I don't think that all the work that went into the Hammer series will vanish like this no matter what. There is x86-64, HT, up to 32-way multiprocessing, on board memory controller ( maybe dual core ), a bunch of partners (motherboard and OS) having the infrastructure ready. All that's missing is the actual CPU. If and when AMD manages to open up the spigot it wouldn't be long before they're making money with Hammer. I am expecting AMD to either cust costs immediately or their board to fire Ruiz for incompetence. In the case of Ruiz getting fired it would mean that chaos has taken over and AMD will go belly up.

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