AMD To Have New Value CPU Line-- S

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited June 2004 in Hardware
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,

Comments

  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    actually, I think there were two :)
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    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....
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    here's one of 'em

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15203
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Thanks.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    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
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It'll have the on die mem controller and fit into a 754/939 socket.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited June 2004
    They wont have to make separate CPUs. They can take an A64 disable the 64 bit part and have a new line of CPUs.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    shwaip wrote:
    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.
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