Hardware site PC Velocity has interviewed an AMD spin paramedic who is claiming it will have a 1GHz processor by next year. We exclusively predicted this at the end of last year. (Story: AMD plans 1000MHz copper whopper) And the interview also claims that next year we will see AMD processors using copper technology, as already revealed here. AMD is following a long line of other processor companies which say they will also have GHz processors real soon now. According to the interview, conducted with AMD PR Drew Prairie, AMD remains on track for .18 micron technology this year. And, said Prairie: "Copper is on tap for 2000. Gigahertz in 2000 is the goal." He said that ALi and VIA have announced support for the K7 and AMD also has relationships with 30 other motherboard vendors. But Prairie said that there's still life in the Super Seven motherboard technology and gave little indication it will follow Intel, Rise, Cyrix and IDT by offering Socket 370 solutions. ®