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Polywell's Opteron server to debut at 1.4GHz

Reader of the Millennium becomes scoop

By Mike Magee: Tuesday 07 January 2003, 10:27


ALTHOUGH AMD partner Polywell pulled the specifications of its Sledgehammer based server from its Web site not that long after we publicised its products for it, an enterprising reader has discovered that the machine will launch using a 1.4GHz Hammer based chip.
See Firm starts selling AMD Opteron servers.

That enterprising reader was, in fact, ex Intel employee Paul Engel, our Reader of the Millennium, who likes to keep us on the straight and narrow on what's up with AMD processors.

Engel told us: "I called Polywell, and they admitted that the Slowpteron Servers will launch only at 1.4GHz. Doing Simple minded scaling, the AMD folks claimed the Slowpteron will do 3400 FunnyHurtz at 2GHz, so this comes out at 2380 FunnyHurtz!!!! AMD wants to compete with Celerons in the Server Space!!!"

In fact, AMD roadmaps we saw towards the end of last year indicate that the Sledgehammer will indeed debut at speeds of 1.4GHz but also at speeds of 1.6GHz.

As we revealed yesterday, the server will include Newisys system management. µ

* MEANWHILE HardOCP claims to have a price for the Polyraxx 1U2C of $9,450, and that they'll ship on February 10th. Seems a little early, and a little pricey, unless it's a fully configured system, but maybe AMD has ramped up its release schedule.