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Flexible Hammer Knocks On Server Doors
News The chip manufacturer is touting the benefits of its Hammer chips for servers, which will be marketed under the names Opteron and Athlon. The company has won backing from Microsoft for the Hammer chips.
[July 1, 2002, 11:34]
AMD 64-bit Chips Get Windows Support
News Microsoft's endorsement will give a leg up to both desktop and server versions of Hammer, pointing the way to desktop PC vendors and server makers that offering the chips in future Windows-based machines.
[April 25, 2002, 8:47]
AMD Narrows Intel Gap, Boosts Hammer
News Meanwhile, AMD's chairman, Jerry Sanders, told an audience at Merrill Lynch's Hardware Heaven conference in San Francisco that Hammer, the company's forthcoming chip for desktops and servers, will debut at 2GHz or higher.
[May 1, 2002, 8:44]
AMD Touts Linux Support For New Chips
News Although x86-64 has enjoyed support from Linux developers since its introduction, and versions of the operating system have been modified to support Hammer chips, the move by SuSE would provide more of an official stamp by writing support directly...
[February 28, 2002, 17:03]
AMD To Aim For Business Market In 2003
News The push into corporate desktops and servers will also begin in the first half of 2003 with the release of the first Hammer chips. Opteron, a version of Hammer for servers, will debut with about 2GHz and will be marketed with a performance rating...
[November 8, 2002, 7:33]
Intel Rivals Aim To Trump Its Conference
News Hammer is intended as the successor to AMD's Athlon processor, which has proven popular with buyers, but with added features for servers. AMD announced the 8000 series of chipsets for its upcoming "Hammer" processors on Thursday, highlighting a...
[February 22, 2002, 17:20]
Red Hat Unfurls Hammer Plans
News Hammer chips will also communicate through HyperTransport, a high-speed connection developed by AMD that will boost performance. Current Windows software will run on the chips, but developers can get more performance by taking 32-bit applications...
[August 13, 2002, 8:06]
AMD Prepares Chip Onslaught On Intel
News The Hammer family of chips will also utilise a manufacturing process called silicon-on-insulator. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to drop a hammer on chip rival Intel in 2002. ClawHammer will mark an important milestone for AMD, as it will be...
[November 14, 2000, 9:03]
Itanium Failing Compaq Server Tests
News Intel is also facing a potential competitive threat from AMD's Hammer processor for servers, coming out late next year. Hammer is effectively based on Intel's familiar X86 architecture but can also run 64-bit applications.
[November 15, 2001, 8:38]
AMD Rewrites Chip Rules With Hammer
News For AMD's upcoming Hammer chips, it's all about the connections. Although samples of the chip will not come out until next year, Hammer will be able to trounce other server chips on common benchmarks, Weber said.
[October 17, 2001, 9:15]
AMD Hit By Intel's Gains
News AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz will deliver a keynote speech at the Comdex trade show next month, and sources close to the company say it may announce that some computer manufacturers have committed to adopting Hammer chips for servers or desktops.
[October 30, 2002, 16:32]
MandrakeSoft Eyes Up AMD's Opteron
News In addition, the company has not yet established a compelling message around x86-64, which was code-named Hammer, according to analysts. They haven't established that yet for Hammer. The chips, which will debut later this year, are an important...
[June 28, 2002, 17:02]
AMD Faces Tough Fight With Dual Athlons
News Athlon MP is AMD's foot in the door where it comes to workstations and servers, but it is merely paving the way for Hammer, a series of 64-bit processors to arrive late next year. Hammer will have to compete directly with Itanium, but unlike Intel...
[June 6, 2001, 8:52]
Intel Developer Forum: Latest News
News AMD claws Intel with Hammer Weds 27 Feb: The chip maker holds its first demonstration of Hammer, the next-generation chip which is designed to give Intel a run for its money Intel chips lift new Dell servers
[February 25, 2002, 13:05]
AMD Boosts Duron
News The company will then complete the silicon hat trick by revealing the technology behind its "Hammer" processors for servers at the Microprocessor Forum on 15 October in San Jose, California. Hammer, slated to come out commercially next year, will...
[October 1, 2001, 11:26]
Intel Inside E-business
News The Hammer line of chips, including ClawHammer and SledgeHammer, will use the existing x86 instruction set, theoretically allowing for a much easier transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. Intel's smaller rival AMD, which controls about 20...
[December 6, 2000, 9:24]
AMD Hammers Out Plans For The Future
News The first Hammer chips will then appear commercially in the third of 2002. AMD spent most of 2001 increasing its market share in desktops; next year it will concentrate on notebooks and servers -- and gear up for the 2003 push on Hammer, its next...
[November 9, 2001, 13:37]
AMD Breaks Silence On 64-bit Hammer
News Hammer competes with Intel's 64-bit Itanium line of chips, and both are up against entrenched RISC server chips from the likes of IBM and Sun Microsystems. The first Hammer chips are due to sample in the first half of next year.
[October 16, 2001, 17:12]
AMD Delays Hammer For Desktops
News Opteron, a version of Hammer for servers, will keep to its scheduled release in the first half of next year. AMD has pushed out the release of its highly anticipated Hammer chip for desktops by almost a quarter, and plans to delay the release of...
[September 13, 2002, 8:15]
AMD Hammers Together 64-bit Simulator
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took the wraps off a simulator that allows Linux programmers to develop code for its forthcoming "Hammer" family of 64-bit microprocessors, Friday. The Hammer family will also be capable of running in both 32-bit and 64...
[October 9, 2000, 10:26]
