AMD Kills Athlon XP

27 Nov, 2004 at 8:24pm ET Article published in Tech

The AMD Athlon XP brand is dead in the water, according to AMD’s new processor roadmap, as the company migrates all of its CPU production to 90nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processes in early 2005.

According to the report, AMD is all geared up to release its next-generation processors in the first half of next year. They’ll be based on the 90nm Palermo core and code-named Sempron – both desktop and mobile versions will be produced.

The chip company will also boost output of its Athlon 64 processors to 65 per cent of its total CPU production in the second quarter of 2005, with the proportion of 939-pin chips higher than the 754-pin parts, the sources said, citing the AMD roadmap.

AMD will also unveil its dual-core server chips, codenamed Egypt, Italy and Denmark, in the second half of 2005 as planned, matching Intel’s roadmap for dual-core CPUs. A desktop dual-core chip, codenamed Toledo, will launch at the same time. Meanwhile, OEMs of mobile hardware will benefit from Albany and Roma – the latter to be a low-voltage processor.

I’ll surely miss the athlon xp. -KF

Source: TechWorld

Comments

27 Nov 2004 ~ 8:30pm primesuspect What a great line of processors....
27 Nov 2004 ~ 8:54pm Crusty We can always use them to run BSD!
27 Nov 2004 ~ 9:15pm Enverex

Crusty (Guest) wrote:

We can always use them to run BSD!

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27 Nov 2004 ~ 11:47pm Komete I'm sticking with my xp for another year
28 Nov 2004 ~ 12:51am Thrax I'll be using it until spring myself.
28 Nov 2004 ~ 1:09am TBonZ I'll still probably be using mine at this time next year.
28 Nov 2004 ~ 1:13am Camman I will not be saying farewell to my XP for a while, just upgraded to a 2800 in June! Long live the bestest processor evar
28 Nov 2004 ~ 1:42pm Garg Don't have much of a reason to upgrade yet. Still waiting for the perfect 754 or 939 board. In no big hurry
28 Nov 2004 ~ 2:50pm Mt_Goat

Gargoyle wrote:

Don't have much of a reason to upgrade yet. Still waiting for the perfect 754 or 939 board. In no big hurry

Same here but 939 only! I don't intend to get rid of any of my XP's when I move up to A64 but keep them as folders till they die.
28 Nov 2004 ~ 4:29pm Spinner My next upgrade isn't planned till September 2005, so my good old XP 3200+ has got plenty of time left to hold onto the position of being in my primary rig.

The Athlon XP's were simply great chips, right back to the Palomino core, and they just got better and better, ending up with the Barton line which really couldn't have been a more fitting swan song.
29 Nov 2004 ~ 11:26am Justin Xp 4 Evar!!!!!
29 Nov 2004 ~ 1:55pm a2jfreak 2500+ XP-M running @ 2.5GHz. Does everything I've asked it to do thus far without seeming slow. That will probably change if I start doing video on it but that'll only happen if I get the time. I don't see myself upgrading for at least a year, possibly more unless I'm forced to via hardware failure.