AMD said yesterday that it won't launch the Athlon 64 (Clawhammer) until September this year.
The firm also will confirm the release of a Barton XP at 3000+ on the 10th of February ? another Barton at 3200+ will appear in the middle of the year.
But AMD will introduce its Opteron (Sledgehammer) chips at speeds of 1.4GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz in New York on April 22nd.
AMD, officially, will say that the Athlon 64 is not out until September because it is waiting for the introduction of a suitable 64-bit operating system. This, The INQUIRER believes, is the Windows 64 bit version specifically for the Athlon64.
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