AMD Athlon 64 Product Launch

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With all the excitement of the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX launches, I thought AMD might have had a bigger presence at the show than this…

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Overall, I’d have to say I walked away unimpressed with the Athlon 64 launch in Taipei at Computex. The speakers didn’t have much to say and much of it was in Chinese, but I guess that just makes me biased. Oh well.

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Here we see Marty Seyer of AMD giving the news of the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX product launches.

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Here we see the different Athlon 64 lines laid out.

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These two shots include some information about Microsoft’s AMD64 enabled version of Windows XP. The beta is currently available and they are claiming it will be completed inside Q1 of 2004.

Of course to go along with the announcements, AMD had some demonstrations and systems being shown including these laptops.

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AMD SFF boxes are here from Iwill, Biostar and Shuttle.

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And here is a system from Packard Bell, who hasn’t sold PCs in the US for quite some time, with an implemented Athlon 64 system already ready for distribution.

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