More AMD Hammer roadmaps emerge

IF ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES was a boat, it might be accused, Edward Lear fashion, of going to sea in a sieve.

Because fresh from Barton prices and speeds appearing on the AMD Zone site yesterday, now VR-Zone appears to have got its mitts on Hammer roadmaps, which confirm Sledgehammer maps we've seen and Clawhammer maps published on a German site earlier in the week.

The roadies, here, have a heap of detail about clock speeds and the like.

Including Athens, San Diego, Paris, Victoria and other codenames, particularly on the Mobile Athlon 64 front.

There's some intriguing chat at this thread about a possible other chip AMD is working on...

And more. AMD MB reports that Pricewatcher has slipped the Barton schedule by accident...

A new console in 2004. It's called the Phantom, apparently, and it's predicted here at the Infinium site.

As suspected, there will be Clawhammers with small caches and Clawhammers with large caches.

JC, over at JC News, has started posting more regular news to his site. And it's good to see him back. For example, he's got info on patents, on OpenEXR on Windows 2000 and a lot more.

Hexus.net has reviewed an Asus "Granite Bay" motherboard here.

It says the board is a real winner. The same site also has some coverage of FX - and pictures.

Viper Lair picks up some shielded round IDE cables and examines them most closely, over here.

Sudhian says it has isolated the single most important event in PC history. What is it? The launch of Lotus 1-2-3? The fact that NASA has swapped back to 286 processors for reliability? No. Find out here

Tech Report looks at an 845GE board from Abit, and asks if it can fulfil the needs of home and business users. Well, can it? Go here to find out.

There's a review of an Asus P4G8X board over here. Apparently, not everything is hunky dory.

Dan from Dan's Data reviews a tiny digital camera with a TV output and that can work as a USB storage device, or as a webcam. It's here. It's cheap.

And Lost Circuits reviews the Shuttle Nforce 2 based SN41G2, right over here,

Here's a review of the 15-inch Kiss Widescreen TFT, to close off with... µ