THE LATEST DESKTOP ROADMAP shown to us at the Intel party last night [just kidding, Ed] reveals how AMD will stretch out the Barton to fill in the gap left by the absence of the Clawhammer/Athlon 64.
AMD calls this a "planned longevity roadmap", which translated out of marchitecturese, means everything 32-bit will last a bit longer than before, because of the absence of the Microsoft X86-64 operating system that Mr Clawhammer absolutely seems to require.
Looks to us as if the 3200+ Barton won't be out in mid-year, as we were told last week, but will start to ramp, as the semiconductor firms have it, in Q3 of this year, something which makes us think and think again about Mr Clawhammer a bit.
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