AMD To Market Discount Sempron

7 Jun, 2004 at 3:45pm ET Article published in Tech

Advanced Micro Devices will come out with a chip in the second half of the year called Sempron that is geared toward notebooks that cost less than $999 and desktops that sell for under $549.

Sempron will be sold worldwide. AMD did not provide any technical details or specify whether the chip would derive from the older Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP line or the Athlon 64 line.

Source: ZDNet

Comments

7 Jun 2004 ~ 3:49pm muddocktor What a stupid name! Sempron sounds too much like simpleton, which implies stupidity.
7 Jun 2004 ~ 3:51pm KingFish According to the article, it's a derivative meant to appeal to latin america as that's where the budget chip market is hot right now.

KF
7 Jun 2004 ~ 4:18pm Thrax I dunno, I kind of like the Sempron name.. Though it sounds like a feminine hygiene product, a race car sponsor, or a trace element.
7 Jun 2004 ~ 4:43pm qparadox I want a sempy! :P.
7 Jun 2004 ~ 6:45pm mmonnin The Duron line for LapTops? Wonder if it will be 64-bit or not. Or rather like socket 754 will become, the 32bit chip with 64-bit disabled.
7 Jun 2004 ~ 6:52pm kanezfan first thing that came to my mind was Sempr0n
7 Jun 2004 ~ 7:00pm Thrax It's 754 pin, low-L2 cache, 32 bit.
7 Jun 2004 ~ 8:18pm Leonardo

What a stupid name!

Well, two years ago we thought the name "Opteron" was goofy too. No one laughs now!