HP to take AMD64 route

That follows our revelation earlier this year that Carly Fiorina had secret meetings with AMD senior executives in the W hotel in New York.

Although HP wasn't present to endorse AMD's processor at that launch, the word on the street was that Carly's firm is interested, and now a PDF on its own web site confirms that breakthrough.

According to the PDF, the Model t182k will use an Athlon 64 3100+, also described as a 1.8GHz/1MB cache chip, using the Via 8KT400M chipset. It will support 1GB of DDR memory, and have an 80GB hard drive.

The full specifications can be found here.

The Athlon 64, previously known as the Clawhammer, is not, of course, released until September this year. Probably late September.

Both AMD Zone and Ace's Hardware pointed us in this direction.

AMD Zone also believes that HP will port OpenVMS to the Opteron, lateron. µ

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