by Anton Shilov
02/19/2003 | 03:02 PM
AMD does not hold its own semi-annual developer forum at this time, but it does not mean that the company has nothing interesting to show us during IDF. Even despite of the fact that Athlon 64 processors are not currently something unbelievable these days compared to what we felt towards them a year ago, any showcase of AMD’s future x86-64 chips attracts attention of the masses as everybody is curious about performance and other important attributes of AMD’s next-generation chips.
Our colleague Mike Magee from The Inquirer has been to AMD’s suite in the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, and found some pretty interesting devices being demonstrated there. <%BANNER[article]%>
Apparently, AMD already has mobile Athlon 64 reference design that seems to be fully functional. It is reported that the notebook is equipped with VIA K8T400 core-logic, 256MB of DDR SDRAM memory and ATI’s Mobility RADEON 9000 graphics adapter. Unfortunately, any additional details concerning the computer are absent, but the fact that AMD already can boast with 64-bit mobile chip is really promising. We will try to find out more about the matter later.
In addition, AMD exposes the Athlon 64 3000+ powered computer with NVIDIA’s chipset inside and also the 4-way Opteron system running SuSE Linux and equipped with 12GB of DDR SDRAM.