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Sledgehammer... er, we'll see
News The latest round of roadmap exchanges between chip-king Intel and challenger AMD reached a head today, following AMD's "Sledgehammer" revelation. The chip-developer says its 64-bit Sledgehammer will compete head-on with Intel's 64-bit architecture.
[October 5, 1999, 12:53]
AMD to unveil plans for new chip 'SledgeHammer'
News The 64-bit "SledgeHammer," is designed to compete with Intel's new "Itanium". Full story to follow.
[October 5, 1999, 11:53]
AMD takes a 'SledgeHammer' to Intel
News Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday will unveil plans for a 64-bit microprocessor, code-named "SledgeHammer," that will compete with "Itanium", a chip Intel named on Monday. Fred Weber, vice president of engineering at AMD, said the SledgeHammer will...
[October 5, 1999, 13:00]
AMD's Sledgehammer is a blow to Intel's Itanium
News Jerry Sanders, chief executive and chairman of Intel rival AMD, said during an interview in Hannover on Monday that his company's 64-bit Sledgehammer processor, due at the end of 2001, will be "the realisation of AMD's dream".
[February 29, 2000, 12:05]
AMD's Sledgehammer is a blow to Intel's Itanium
Talkback Hey Boys.whats up .well i've been really looking forward to buying one of the new amds, i'd like u to give me some updates on the progress of the Clawhammer and the SledgeHammer. Clock Speeds, Cache, Bus Speed.
[October 11, 2003, 3:23]
News Burst: AMD to cash in Intel's 64-bit plans
News Jerry Sanders, CEO and chairman of AMD, said at a press conference in Hanover Monday that its 64-bit Sledgehammer processor, arriving at the end of 2001, will be "the realisation of AMD's dream". Sledgehammer will have the edge over Intel's Itanium...
[February 28, 2000, 11:10]
AMD 64-bit chips get Windows support
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday afternoon that it will offer a version of the Windows operating system that supports AMD's upcoming 64-bit Hammer family of processors: the next-generation desktop Athlon, and the dual-processor SledgeHammer server...
[April 25, 2002, 8:47]
Transmeta to help AMD push into servers
News The computers are designed to run a program that simulates AMD's upcoming server chip, called Sledgehammer, the sources said. In turn, Transmeta has obtained a licence that will allow it to make chips that rely in part on the Sledgehammer design.
[January 3, 2001, 15:20]
Will Hammer get the support it needs?
News Would Sun be likely to drop work on IA-64 in favor of a Solaris Sledgehammer strategy? But, surprisingly, the only company to lend its official backing to Sledgehammer so far is Sun. Advanced Micro Devices Thursday released to developers its...
[August 11, 2000, 9:21]
AMD hammering at 64-bit desktops
News Because it is based on Sledgehammer, the new desktop chip will have the ability to -- code segment by code segment -- recognise and switch between 32-bit and 64-bit code, AMD officials said. That means Sledgehammer users will be able to run 64-bit...
[June 29, 2000, 17:16]
CPU roadmap: Intel and AMD's new chips
News Sledgehammer" won't appear until early next year, and is to compete with Intel's IA-64 64-bit chips, such as "Itanium". Whereas Itanium is not backward-compatible to 32-bit software, for all practical purposes, AMD's Sledgehammer will have 64-bit...
[May 3, 2000, 8:08]
Eye2Eye with AMD's Jerry Sanders, Part III
News We believe we have a solution with Sledgehammer that will better do the customers' job. We can show him a solution with Sledgehammer that gives him better benchmarks and better cross performance trade-offs.
[March 3, 2000, 17:59]
Intel courts Linux developers with Itanium specs
News Partly because of this, Intel says it does not expect IA-64 to take over the server market right away, and this could leave the market open to invasion by AMD, whose Sledgehammer 64-bit chip is on its way next year.
[May 10, 2000, 8:01]
AMD offers Linux simulator for 64-bit chips
News AMD hopes Linux will increase the popularity of its upcoming Sledgehammer chip, prototypes of which are expected late this year, with final versions coming in the first half of 2002. Sledgehammer is a 64-bit chip, which means it can accommodate...
[January 31, 2001, 16:49]
Athlon 64 FX-53: end of the waiting game? review
Reviews The Athlon 64 FX-53 (Sledgehammer core) is 200MHz faster than its predecessor, the FX-51, pushing the clock speed envelope to 2.4GHz. By then, we'll have seen a handful of 64-bit processor choices, ranging from later steppings of Intel Prescotts...
[March 22, 2004, 10:45]
Purdue University Boosts Productivity of Lectures for Both Students and Instructors
White Papers The university's "Sledgehammer suite" includes a polling application that enables the instructor to ask multiple-choice questions and get real-time tabulations of student responses; a question-queue application that allows students to ask...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
AMD puts Dresden plant in spotlight
News In the coming months our customers will see the Thoroughbred (processor) with 0.13-micron, Barton with 0.13-micron and the SOI finishing process, as well as the two members of the Hammer family, Sledgehammer and Clawhammer.
[August 1, 2001, 17:04]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog It's not so much a sledgehammer/nut interface, it's a thumb-sensing sledgehammer with automatic guidance. There's far too much going on to fit into one diary. In swift succession, I learn that the Adult Content area is a pale shadow of previous...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Oracle Special: Inside the pressure cooker
News If the numbers weren't coming in, the sledgehammer came out. It is a sales manager's worst nightmare: a midnight call from Larry Ellison demanding to know why an important deal didn't close. Saturday, Sunday, any day, anytime, a call would come...
[July 2, 2001, 13:41]
AMD Hammer chip nails open source
News The pair will work to port their Linux flavors to AMD's forthcoming 64-bit chip codenamed SledgeHammer. At LinuxWorld in San Jose, California, AMD announced support from vendors Red Hat and SuSE. The chip, otherwise known as Hammer, uses a new...
[August 16, 2000, 16:07]
