ExtremeTech has the news that AMD seems to be moving away from the desktop-centric Clawhammer project towards the server-destined Opteron (formerly Sledgehammer) project.

In place of Clawhammer, executives said, AMD's 2003 PC desktop and mobile offerings will largely be driven by Barton, the delayed followon to the Athlon XP. Neither Ruiz nor Rivet said the Clawhammer was going to be delayed, per se, but they gave a strong indication that if the Clawhammer is introduced, it may be only in the limited quantities that have of late accompanied AMD product launches.

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