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Manufacturer ClawHammer pointed to the CeBIT 2002 behind closed doors
To the CeBIT 2002 AMD shows its coming processor hammer with finished 1er-Stepping off the public of the press. About clock rates the manufacturer did not want to talk yet, stressed however that the ClawHammer the Athlon XP appearing toward end of the yearly became with same clock rate around 20 to 40 per cent over wings.
With 32-Bit-Applikationen the ClawHammer thought for fastidious final users is to be faster about 20 to 25 per cent than the Athlon XP. If 64-Bit-Software (x86-64) is used, the projection/lead would rise around further 15 per cent to 35 to 40 per cent, since then the extended instruction sets can be used fully.

In contrast to the Athlon XP the ClawHammer integrates the store management directly not in the chip record, but on the processor and uses a hyperfeed pipeline for communication with the Southbridge. Since the ClawHammer executes still more instructions per clock cycle than the Athlon XP, AMD wants to be Quantispeed Rating maintained. The clock frequency according to AMD speaker January Guetter ever more insignificantly and gives the clock rate king Intel thereby a side blow.

The heat development of the processor is not thereby " more badly ", but rather smaller its than those of the Athlon XP. in particular by the manufacturing in 0,13-Mikron and silicone on Insulator building method heat development is to hold itself within limits - it will not give temperature-lowering current savings mechanisms also in the ClawHammer, but however at least one thermometric bulb in the chip, which is to pull the emergency brake with fatal hot flushes and to protect so the hammer against harm.

While the ClawHammer for Desktop computers with a processor is meant, its in the first half-year 2003 appearing brothers ClawHammer DP and SledgeHammer MP in server/workstations with two respectively eight processors their work will perform. The SledgeHammer MP offers a clearly higher bandwidth, there it in contrast to the ClawHammer/ClawHammer DP not over one, but equivalent three hyperfeed interfaces to other components orders. Beyond that it addresses the memory via a 128-Bit instead of a 64-Bit-Schnittstelle. Nevertheless still another hammer processor with current savings technique will then follow somewhat later, since it is meant for the application in Notebooks.

Concerning the price ClawHammer is to be situated at the beginning of noticeably over the Athlon XP, become in the long term the prices however sink and hammer architecture the predecessor to replace. The Athlon XP did not out-play however still for a long time, because the advantages of the x86-64-Bit-Code remain refused for hammer architecture under the 32-Bit-Betriebssystem Windows XP; only under a 64-Bit-Betriebssystem like the special x86-64-Bit-Version of the SuSE Linux distribution AMDs hammer can execute 32 and 64-Bit-Code in separate programs at the same time. One may be strained whether Microsoft will offer a special Windows version for hammer, in order not to drop back behind Linux.

Comment: Intel might prepare for AMDs roaring hammer blows some concerns, the percussion instrument both for the Consumer and the professional market are nevertheless forged. Up to the end of the yearly it is however still another one while, so that one may be strained whether Intel does not have for his part something in the rear spar and. With AMD one sees that left, because if Intel likewise came now with a 64-Bit-Prozessor on the market, which is compatible to the x86-PC-Plattform, would see itself acknowledged one in the selected strategy. On the CeBIT 2002 AMD could already win the chip CeBIT Oskar in the category hardware for the hammer due to the innovative concept.