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SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. provided a glimpse of its upcoming 64-bit Hammer family of microprocessors, charged with battling Intel Corp.'s Itanium processors at the high end of the server market, at the Microprocessor Forum here last week.
AMD hopes the architecture will expand its presence in the four-way and eight-way enterprise market while serving as a platform for personal-computing markets. AMD's approach to 64-bit computing looks to make the migration awayfrom 32 bits as painless as possible, with the Hammer running both 32-bit and 64-bit software.
"This is more than just a new microprocessor," said Fred Weber, vice president and chief technical officer of the Computation Products Group at AMD (Sunnyvale, Calif.). "We're building a next-generation system architecture...