AMD announced today that manufacturers and system builders should have inmediate access to Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processors for desktop and notebook computers. Official pricing goes like this: Desktop 3200+, $417 and 3200+ and 3000+ for notebooks, priced at $417 and $278, respectively (all 1k quantities). The AMD Athlon 64 FX processor is available in the FX-51 series, and is priced at $733.

The Athlon 64 3200+ (http://techspot.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1247981) seems to be the first to make it into our pricewatch (http://www.techspot.com/prices.shtml) section, several retailers already have it in stock.

In other related notes, Microsoft has confirmed their support for the Athlon 64, the beta version of the 64-bit Windows XP (http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5080522.html) is available now to Microsoft's testers, the production version of the OS won't come out in the first half of 2004. Also, The Register quotes AMD chairman, Jerry Sanders: "Multi-core Athlons inevitable" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/32986.html).