AMD To Market Discount Sempron

KingFishKingFish
edited June 2004 in Science & 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

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    What a stupid name! Sempron sounds too much like simpleton, which implies stupidity. ;D
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited June 2004
    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
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    I want a sempy! :P.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    first thing that came to my mind was Sempr0n :D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It's 754 pin, low-L2 cache, 32 bit.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    What a stupid name!
    Well, two years ago we thought the name "Opteron" was goofy too. No one laughs now!
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