Influential German magazine c't is reporting that AMD will unveil protypes of a copper-interconnect Athlon, which will support multi-processing. According to the report, written by Andreas Stiller, and which can be found here (http://www.heise.de/ct/00/04/028/), AMD will also show a chip which clocks at over 1GHz and has integrated level two Thunderbird cache at massive German trade show CeBIT (http://www.cebit.de) next week. Intel, on the other hand, will use the occasion to further develop its plans for the Itanium-Merced microprocessor, which it is expected to disclose further details on at this week's Developer Forum. According to Stiller, Intel is also expected to disclose further details of StrongARM in a 64-bit recension at CeBIT. The Tsunami chipset which will support multiprocessing was originally designed for Compaq's Alpha microprocessor. ®