AMD To Have New Value CPU Line-- S

[Straight_Man]

AMD, in second half of this year, will be replacing the Duron with the Sempron series, in both Mobile and desktop versions. Not enough know about these yet to give details, AMD is saying details in second half 2004 and this family is not even on teh processor roadmap yet. They are not even saying if this will be a backward-compatible 64 bit or just a 32 bit capable chip yet....

So, obligatory link, this one to the virtual pressroom,

[mmonnin]

Uhh, John, I dont know how much you read here now, but to let you know, there has been a news post about this already.:) Just in case you missed it.

[shwaip]

actually, I think there were two :)

[Straight_Man]

Uhh, John, I dont know how much you read here now, but to let you know, there has been a news post about this already.:) Just in case you missed it.

That will teach me to go to MI and clean up a dialup box (brother Steve's box) that's on AOL and cannot even paint Short-Media threads for 9 days (2nd through 11th of June, so I got the announcement when I got home yesterday night).... Cool you folks already are on top of it, now where are the earlier posts????.... :D :D You can dump this whole thread if you want.... :D Will not bother me, but I did not get a thread from Sempron in searcher here....

[shwaip]

here's one of 'em

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15203

[Straight_Man]

Thanks.

[jared]

to me, whats the point of dropping the XP's and then replacing them with the semprons when essentially they appear to be the same thing. Why not just keep the XP series since it is already established?

who knows :P

[shwaip]

It'll have the on die mem controller and fit into a 754/939 socket.

[mmonnin]

They wont have to make separate CPUs. They can take an A64 disable the 64 bit part and have a new line of CPUs.

[muddocktor]

It'll have the on die mem controller and fit into a 754/939 socket.

From what I've read so far on them, they will be in socket 754 and socket A initially and will follow later in socket 939. They will all be 32 bit only with 256k of L2 cache and be based on .13 micron technology. As for the socket A version, it will be based on present socket A cores and not hammer cores, which makes it to be a Tbred in my opinion. The only reason I see for them to call the socket A version Sempron is to separate the Athlon XP moniker away from socket A as it doesn't seem (so far at least) to be any different from a Tbred.