Farewell to the Athlon XP, Hello to Sempron

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
The Athlon XP processor line was one of AMD's greatest success stories. It's been available to us in many different forms over the years, and the line certainly ended on a note that strongly indicated AMD's intentions for future processor promotion and design. As you all know the chips are still readily available, but not for much longer. The Athlon XP officially dies Q2 next year. But who will look after the famous Socket A platform while it slowly winds down from its long and blissful career? The AMD Sempron of course.
Now onto the dirty details about the processor: Sempron won't have 64-bit capabilities. Sempron won't support No eXecute instructions. Sempron only has 256K of L2 cache, and Sempron runs at 62W. The processor will be primarily targeted at Socket A platforms, but will also show up on Socket 754 at launch. It appears some OEM channels will have Semprons for Socket 939 by this time next year as well. Obviously the memory controller will be integrated on the Socket 754 and Socket 939 versions of the processor. Although the Sempron will have twice the cache of a Duron, judging by the naming of the new processors the clock speed appears moderately low (particularly with such high power consumption requirements).
Source: AnandTech

Comments

  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    And it will run in socket A, Looks like one more upgrade cycle for my machines yet.
    Now, where is the new BIOS that I need....
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited June 2004
    Y bother... socket A... Just keeps some athlons flowing... I mean come on 256k l2 cache.. that thing is going to be a dog... Hell a barton 2500 is below 80 dollars us...

    How much are they going to sell these things for... 20 30 bucks?


    Gobbles
  • luisraul35
    edited October 2004
    I don't know what kind of processor sempron is. It will be better than Athlon XP, I had and athlon xp 2800 with Asus a7n8x-e deluxe and work great.

    It's worthy buy an AMD sempron instead AMD Athlon XP?

    =(
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    I have built two Sempron systems now, and I will say that they perform just fine.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited October 2004
    luisraul35 (Guest) wrote:
    I don't know what kind of processor sempron is. It will be better than Athlon XP, I had and athlon xp 2800 with Asus a7n8x-e deluxe and work great.

    It's worthy buy an AMD sempron instead AMD Athlon XP? =(

    Semprons <3100+ are just 256K Cache, Athlon XP's with a base clock of 166mhz
    Semprons 3100+ & up are 256K Cache - Socket 754 - Athlon 64- Base clock 200mhz
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