Thoroughbred out on the 20th of March

Thoroughbred to launch mid-May, Hammer sooner ?

Hey gang,

Caught this over at the Inquirer.

Thoroughbred to launch mid-May
By Mike Magee, 12/04/2002 10:18:54 BST

Full story here T-Bred in May, Hammer comming sooner

Nice info, hopfully Hammer will be sooner than later.

Just read that article as well. Not sure how authentic their "confidential" source is. Anyway, how do we know whether our mobo supports the 2.0GHz CPUs?

Here's what they have to say:

Yeah I like how they dropped that in there, but at least now we can try to research it and see if our personnal boards support it. If they aren't thru the roof when they come out, I may just hold off and get a Hammer at the end of the year. My 1900+ should make it until then. But mabee it will be a 2100 by then....who knows

They can be amazingly subtle sometimes Heheeh... I'm quite certain that my mobo (Epox 8KHA+) will support the 2GHz chip since pple have been oc-ing using this mobo like mad

Any idea on how high the Thoroughbreds can go up to?

If memeroy serves me, I believe I saw something like 2.6ish. Then Hammer takes over. Let me do some digging and see if I can find out on paper somewhere !

QUOTE: above link

That's rather low IMO I would expect those guys to push the 0.13 process up to perhaps 3.5-4Ghz

Thanks for the effort BTW!

Hey Lokum, I did some cruizin and found this roadmap that talks of T-bred up to 2800+. Here is the link.

Roadmap

If I find any more I will let you know. It is my opinion that AMD is going to "milk" the Athlon line until late this year or early next year and dump it when Hammer takes off.

I agree boeing. This is where we're going to see if AMD is for real and up to the challenge with Intel. The Hammer, IMO, will determine if AMD is a real competitor or if Intel can just come out with a similar chip and keep their dominant share of the market. Expectations are high for the Hammer from the critics, as are mine, and I just have to hope it will spank anything Intel can offer. Until then, I'll be on the edge of my seat......

We can all hope. I also read another good article somewhere, don't remember, anyway, AMD really has no choice as they have VERY limited FAB space. They cannot compete by making Duron, Athlon, and two types of Hammers, they simply don't have the manufacturing capabilities. But as with you Super, I am awaiting hammer too. Hopfully it will be Intel's day of reconning !

Just noticed this post over at www.xbitlabs.com:

Am I right by saying that the Throughbred's will be compatable with the current mobos on the market? I'm asking this because my Abit KG7-RAID board just got new bios that allow for 0.13 AMD XP processors, but it didn't say anything about the Throughbreds.

If I remember correctly, the mobo must support lower voltages which is required for the Thoroughbreds. And this is also one of the requirements in the article posted :

Not sure how to check that for mobos though.

Also found this today on a Tiwainese site. Pics of T-bred and side by side of the 3 different Athie's, T-bird, XP, & T-Bred. Also if you notice the two charts, AMD has and is sticking to Socket A while Intel has an over abundance of Socket combo's.

Here is the link to the pic's

Overclocker.Com.TW

Enjoy !!

Well I commented on it yesturday, here it is from Chris Tom of AMDZone.com

This makes perfect sense to me and sounds like AMD is gearing up to make Hammer the main line and Athlon the "budget" line !!