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Constantine, Re: the support is there for Hammer, it's AMD that's holding everything up.

This is to be expected. Without the memory controller, Hammer chipsets should be far less complex than previous Athlon chipsets, so 3rd parties should be able to finish their designs more quickly. At least this applies to uniprocessor systems; I think multiprocessor chipsets are going to be very difficult to design, given AMD's implementation. This concept probably sounded like a great idea from AMD's perspective, since they must have figured that taking complexity out of the hands of 3rd parties would enable quicker infrastructure. Instead, AMD underestimated their own difficulties in creating a product with an integrated memory controller. Now the pressure is on AMD to deliver products, while their 3rd party partners are patiently waiting.

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