Hardware Mania has posted an AMD SledgeHammer preview

The first article that i wrote about the processor architecture was approximately five years ago in order to estimate the present situation for the 64 bit processor market. At those days, the name “Willamette” was implicitly whispered on the sites, which were close to the chip giant, Intel. Intel had bought the production sites of Digital Corp. which was a firm with its product lines beyond its time. On the same period, we were discussing the upcoming announcement of the exciting chip K6-2. And the dream of a 64 bit desktop was even existent on the minds of IT market. I just wrote my first processor article on a 486 DX-2. At that time I was discussing the nonexistent and superior processors when measured with the glorious benchmark criteria of those days, Spec95 than my computer; lots of our crew, were just asking “… why do we need that much processing power on a desktop” scornfully. Now, I can barely put up hauling myself back from laughing, when I looked back to those swirling and blazingly fast years for processor market.

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