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Hammer at 80-85W and 1.6GHz?

According to Tom's Hardware, AMD will try and launch a 1.6GHz Clawhammer in Q1, and it will have a thermal power dissipation of 80-85W. Intel, on the other hand, has a roadmap of CPUs going to 100W over the next two years. Hothothot.

AMD also can't seem to figure out a name for this new Athlon. Tom's Hardware says "XP 3200+", but the Inquirer says "DT 3000+". (What about "3400+"?)

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5839
http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q4/021017/index.html

Whatever happened to what AMD said at their earnings conference? Are they going to paper launch a Clawhammer in Q1 that shows up in Q3? Or even better, have Tom's Hardware show benchmarks before Christmas (as he claims) for a product that won't be available for 6-9 months later? They seem to have plenty of motherboard and chipset vendors ready and waiting, so I suppose the pressure is on.

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