Sup guys. Okay, got some questions and some speculation. As many of us know, sometime soon (anyone got any ideas), AMD will be releasing it's new Thouroughbred processor, which begs the big question, will it still be a K-7 and be supported by SocketA? Also, if it's a new "K-8", what kind of chipset will we be looking forward to? As for later on this year (I think about late Q3), AMD plan's on releasing the so called K-8 Hammer. Now, according to rumors, it's gonna smash anything Intel has, namely the well known PentiumIV northwood. What can we expect of Hammer? Will it have more cache, a faster FSB, perhaps SSE2 or other extensions? I mene, if AMD plans on beating out Intel really badly, they need to take a step beyond the Athlon XP and really lay it on Intel.
Now, I invested a little bit of $$$ into AMD in stocks, and i'm assuming the release of the Thouroughbred and the Hammer will send AMD skyrocketing in the stock market IF they advertise enough. I'd be willing to bet that commecials and graphs would persuade people to move away form Intel. Does anyone think I should ditch or keep my AMD stock. Right now, i'm geared towards holding to it until Thouroughbred, and perhaps even Hammer. Now, i'm not biased against Intel, but seriously, if they really boast to have the fastest X86 processor anywhere, you'd think they could really run away with 2.2Ghz and a 400mhz QDR FSB. They are barely beating AMD, and only under some circumstances. Heck, thats like a 500 Mhz lead, and AMD can beat Intel in some benchmarks (AXP1.67 vs PentiumIV2.2). Well, if anyone has any insight, i'm all ears.
"When there's a will, there's a way."
Now, I invested a little bit of $$$ into AMD in stocks, and i'm assuming the release of the Thouroughbred and the Hammer will send AMD skyrocketing in the stock market IF they advertise enough. I'd be willing to bet that commecials and graphs would persuade people to move away form Intel. Does anyone think I should ditch or keep my AMD stock. Right now, i'm geared towards holding to it until Thouroughbred, and perhaps even Hammer. Now, i'm not biased against Intel, but seriously, if they really boast to have the fastest X86 processor anywhere, you'd think they could really run away with 2.2Ghz and a 400mhz QDR FSB. They are barely beating AMD, and only under some circumstances. Heck, thats like a 500 Mhz lead, and AMD can beat Intel in some benchmarks (AXP1.67 vs PentiumIV2.2). Well, if anyone has any insight, i'm all ears.
"When there's a will, there's a way."