AMD to debut Mobile Hammer in 2003

Has to wait for 0.10 micron process

AMD Roadmap AMD will drive its Hammer family of 64-bit processors into the mobile market in the second half of 2003, a year or so after it makes its debut in servers, the company revealed at its analysts confab yesterday.

The chip maker extended its mobile roadmap into 2003 at the conference, and slides from the presentation - which you can view here - schedule Mobile Hammer's arrival during the second half of 2003. The model numbers, derived from AMD's new 'more than megahertz' nomenclature will be 3800 and 3600. These parts will draw 35W and 25W, respectively.

Mobile Hammers can't ship until AMD shifts to a 0.09 micron (some AMD documentation says "0.10 micron") fabrication process, which it plans to mid to late 2003. The company's current Athlon 4 mobile CPUs are fabbed at 0.18 micron. The 0.13 micron Athlon 4 die-shrink, codenamed Appaloosa, will ship during Q1 2002, AMD's roadmap shows, numbered 1800 and 1500.

Thoroughbred will transition to the 0.13 micron, silicon-on-insulator based Barton in the latter part of 2002. By then, all Athlon 4s will be fabbed at 0.13 micron. ®

AMD's Mobile Roadmap
Power	2002				2003
	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	H1	H2
35W	1800	1900	2200	2400	2800	3800
	1.4GHz
25W	1500	1600	1900	2200	2600	3600
	1.3GHz
16W	1.3GHz	1500	1600	1800	2100	2300

0.18 micron Palomino/Morgan

0.13 micron Appaloosa/Barton

0.09 micron Hammer

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