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Athlon64 delayed until Christmas?

http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20030314/cebit2003_2-03.html

AMD: Athlon XP 3200+ With 166 MHz FSB

Our meeting with AMD took place quite close to the world champion Ferrari from Michael Schuhmacher. The stand was very similar to the one from last year, except that the manufacturer's Ferrari sponsorship was put in the limelight. One of the highlights was the announcement of the Athlon 64 for September 2003 in conjunction with the desktop platform. This means that the 64-bit Athlon (Claw Hammer) definitely won't be available until Christmas at the earliest. In addition, there were reference boards with Ali, NVIDIA, AMD, SiS and VIA chipsets for the up-coming K8 platform. The 200 MHz FSB topic has also been set aside for now for the old generation of Athlons. This means that the fastest Athlon XP with the Barton core in the XP 3200+ variant will continue to be equipped wth 166 MHz. The core clock will probably be around 2250 MHz (13.5 x 166 MHz) - depending on how fast the Intel Pentium 4 with 3.2 GHz (16 x 200 MHz), 200 MHz quad-pumped FSB and Dual DDR400 will be. In the somewhat isolated show room, there were some servers based on the Opteron, as well as notebooks with the Mobile Athlon XP. A desktop system was also available, althought it wasn't possible to catch a glimpse of the inside, due to technical reasons.