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After reading the front article it seems like AMD is repeating the past.
For those of you that were in to computers when AMD released the K6-2. AMD was in a simlar situation at the time, they were about to risk it all on the Athlon. Take the Current AthlonXP it's the K6 and the new socket 754 AXP with SSE2 would be the K6-2, the "Paris" is going to be a K6-3. The real fine tuned 64 Bit chip will be like the Athlon with all the bugs worked out and all weak points removed. It seems like AMD is buying time while trying to keep customers and allow upgradablity by using the current athlon with the 754. AMD is going to be using existing designs with slight improvements to test it's scalablity and get the bugs out.
I hope AMD can pull another "Athlon" and soon.
For those of you that were in to computers when AMD released the K6-2. AMD was in a simlar situation at the time, they were about to risk it all on the Athlon. Take the Current AthlonXP it's the K6 and the new socket 754 AXP with SSE2 would be the K6-2, the "Paris" is going to be a K6-3. The real fine tuned 64 Bit chip will be like the Athlon with all the bugs worked out and all weak points removed. It seems like AMD is buying time while trying to keep customers and allow upgradablity by using the current athlon with the 754. AMD is going to be using existing designs with slight improvements to test it's scalablity and get the bugs out.
I hope AMD can pull another "Athlon" and soon.