AMD To Saddle Up Sempron On Wednesday

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
AMD will detail on Wednesday its plans to go after the low-price PC market again, when it unveils its first Sempron-brand processors.
The chipmaker, which created the Sempron brand earlier this summer with the low-price PC market in mind, will begin offering a dozen Semprons, including eight processor models for desktops and four models for notebooks, on Wednesday. The chips which will sell for as little as $39 in 1,000 unit lots and will begin showing up in systems from brand-name PC makers in time for the holiday season, an AMD executive said.
Source: C|Net

Comments

  • Unregistered
    edited July 2004
    Desktop Semprons will use the same basic underpinnings as desktop Athlon XP processors, while notebook Semprons will be based on mobile Athlon 64 processors but lack certain features, such as 64-bit addressing.

    I would almost be willing to bet within a month of the release of that Mobile chip we will be eiher connecting or blowing bridges and turning them into full blown 64's at a fraction of the cost.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited July 2004
    I would have to agree with you on that one.

    KF
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Depends on how they're locked. They could be locked in a similar fashion to how the P4's multipliers are locked (on the silicon, IIRC) which will not be undo-able, most likely.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    turns up that the s754 3100+ Sempron is faster than the full blown 2800+ A64. And it's only like $130.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2004
    I know who has one!!!
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