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Originally Published: Monday, 20 March 2000 Author: Heather Stanfield
Published to: enhance_articles_hardware/Hardware News Page: 1/1 - [Printable]

AMD Sledgehammer (64-bit CPU) Preview

In October of 1999 AMD officially threw its hat into the 64-bit processor ring.Flying in the face of Intel and their IA-64 project with HP, AMD has decided to develop their own 64-bit capable processor. The chip is code-named “Sledgehammer,” and hopefully this chip will be the marketing and processing weapon that its name implies



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