AMD’s new child has been released. The AMD Opteron 64-bit server processor.
While the opteron now is beeing used now for server systems, the desktop version
with codename Clawhammer is scheduled for September 2003. Opteron and
Clawhammer are basicly the same processor but the clawhammer cpu has one
half of Opteron’s 1 M cache, and will have only one HyperTransport bus.


Read more here.


Read also the benchmark article
between Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron cpu’s