Wall Street financial analyst Fred Hick predicts that AMD's Hammer will help AMD dominate the processor market. Heres a clip:

"The 5 August edition of the Wall Street financial weekly cites Fred Hick, publisher of the newsletter High-Tech Strategist, as saying AMD's next line of microprocessors, code-named Hammer, can give AMD a multiyear lead on arch-rival Intel.

AMD's edge could lie in the move by Intel to make its Itanium chips work only with advanced software that capitalises on its advanced 64-bit features, the article said. By contrast, AMD's Hammer PC chips are compatible both with hundreds of thousands of existing 32-bit software programs as well as new 64-bit ones. "

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