AMD's desktop Hammer won't released until late '03
 

Looks like AMD is pushing back the release date of the Hammer, image that.

A major shift in AMD's marketing strategy in launching its next generation Hammer family of processors came to light in the analysts conference call. Rob Herb, executive vice president of sales and marketing, said the Opteron server version of Hammer to be introduced in mid-2003 will precede the Athlon desktop Hammer chip.

Originally the Athlon desktop Hammer was slated to be introduced in Q4 '02 and then slipped to the first quarter of 2003, and now won't come to market until late next year.

Read the rest at Eeetimes.

hmm

thats sad news...
but i dont think it will be that late
i think it will come Q1 or Q2 of next year
the Sledge Hammer

typo, 'Image' should be 'Imagine' :)