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'Hammer' Chips Away At Processor Limits
News The largest version of Hammer, for instance, will have 1MB of secondary cache, as well as an integrated memory controller for connecting the processor to a PC's memory, according to the company. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of...
[November 27, 2002, 14:50]
AMD Delays Hammer For Desktops
News 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 another Athlon chip. The desktop version of Hammer, which is code-named Clawhammer and will be marketed under...
[September 13, 2002, 8:15]
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]
Visible Breakthrough: Big Hammer Achieves Agility And Performance For Data Pools
White Papers Edgenet's Wisconsin-based Big Hammer Data division is certified as both a source data pool for suppliers and a recipient data pool for retailers-and is the exclusive Enterprise Private Data Pool and preferred GDSN and Marketing Pool for The Home...
[June 2, 2007, 0:00]
Via Readies Hammer Chipsets
News Via Technologies has a full line of chipsets waiting in the wings for AMD's upcoming 64-bit "Hammer" processors, according to the company. Motherboards based on Hammer chipsets from Via and rivals Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) and Acer Labs (ALI...
[May 21, 2002, 14:19]
AMD Launches 64-bit Hammer Tools
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and software firm Virtutech announced Tuesday they created a software tool that will enable developers to produce applications for AMD's next generation of processors codenamed "Hammer".
[January 16, 2001, 15:39]
AMD Hammer Chip Nails Open Source
News The chip, otherwise known as Hammer, uses a new instruction set -- a modified version of the x86 instruction set used in AMD's Athlon processor. Hammer's extra instructions, as well as some hardware enhancements, allow it to run in 64-bit or 32-bit...
[August 16, 2000, 16:07]
Flexible Hammer Knocks On Server Doors
News Opteron, for two- to eight-processor servers, and Hammer-based Athlons, for one- and two-chip servers and workstations, will ship to manufacturers in the first quarter of 2003 and appear commercially in the first half of that year -- one year...
[July 1, 2002, 11:34]
AMD Rewrites Chip Rules With Hammer
News For AMD's upcoming Hammer chips, it's all about the connections. One of the major performance enhancements of Hammer, the code name for a family of microprocessors coming from AMD next year, will derive from how the chip connects to other...
[October 17, 2001, 9:15]
Will Hammer Get The Support It Needs?
News Advanced Micro Devices Thursday released to developers its initial software design guide for its 64-bit processor, x86-64, known by the interchangeable code names of "Sledgehammer" and "Hammer". In the 64-bit space, Intel may have been plagued with...
[August 11, 2000, 9:21]
AMD Issues 64-bit Hammer Spec
News Rejuvenated microprocessor manufacturer AMD continued its drive towards 64-bit computing with the release of specifications for it forthcoming 64-bit "Hammer" family of microprocessors Wednesday. AMD's Hammer microprocessors are also, by contrast...
[August 10, 2000, 10:51]
AMD Breaks Silence On 64-bit Hammer
News Chip maker AMD has unveiled details of the microarchitecture for its Hammer line of 64-bit processors at the Microprocessor Forum. Hammer competes with Intel's 64-bit Itanium line of chips, and both are up against entrenched RISC server chips from...
[October 16, 2001, 17:12]
IDF: AMD Claws Intel With Hammer
News AMD provided the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Hammer chip on Tuesday. At meetings in San Francisco, the Sunnyvale, California-based company showed off Hammer-based computers running a 64-bit version of Linux as well as Microsoft...
[February 27, 2002, 9:03]
IT Initiatives At Bhartia Cutler-Hammer
White Papers Bhartia Cutler-Hammer (BCH), a business unit of Bhartia Industries Ltd.is a leading manufacturer of Low Voltage Switchgear & Control gear. With the rise of new technologies altering the competitive landscape, BCH was on the lookout for ways to use...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
SuSE Linux Picks Up Hammer
News Linux development groups have long supported the Hammer architecture, but SuSE hopes to get some additional marketing mileage from its AMD relationship. SuSE is pushing to have its server software ready in November, in time for the launch of Hammer...
[March 14, 2002, 15:09]
AMD Could Hammer Intel - Analyst
News Advanced Micro Devices' next-generation Hammer microprocessors, which aim to extend the life of current PC software and operating systems, could be an attractive bet for computer manufacturers, according to a leading chip analyst.
[September 8, 2000, 15:44]
Red Hat Unfurls Hammer Plans
News Red Hat Software will bring out a version of its server software for the Hammer processor family from AMD, as momentum for the chip builds. Red Hat, the dominant seller of the Linux operating system, said that it would bring out a copy of Red Hat...
[August 13, 2002, 8:06]
EBay Brings Down The Hammer On Microsoft Passport
Talkback With Ebay gone, thats about 20% of their client base. The rest of the sites are mostly Microsoft sites. In June 2003, this is the members they had: http://web.archive.org/web/20030605133606/www.passport.net/Directory/Default.asp?
[January 1, 2005, 8:45]
Linux Companies Go For AMD's Hammer
News AMD released initial specification details of its 64-bit "Hammer" range of 64-bit processors to software developers last week. AMD will today also announce a technology simulator that will enable BIOS vendors and applications providers develop code...
[August 15, 2000, 11:26]
TechXNY: Zeus Forges 64-bit Web Server For AMD's Hammer
News The announcement is the latest mark of industry support for AMD's Opteron processor, the server variant of the company's next-generation chip code-named "Hammer". AMD is also planning a desktop version of Hammer, which will carry the Athlon brand.
[June 26, 2002, 15:31]
