Following the move to the 333 MHz FSB and the subsequent release of the Barton core, it is clear that AMD has preciously little time to sit back and take a breath. MHz is not everything and neither is QuantiSpeed, the important next steps involve the correction of the sins and mistakes made by mindlessly inflating the multipliers and substituting clock cycles for performance. The next member of AMD's Athlon family has been whispered to be the XP3200+ model and interestingly, the number borrows from the bus interface bandwidth rather than from the actual core speed. We are performing a little time warp into the future to see what this new speed grade may be all about, how much performance increase we may see from production samples and what the odds are that AMD will be facing from the supporting hardware industry.

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