READ: AMD kills Athlon XP

[TechZ]

The AMD Athlon XP brand is dead in the water, according to AMD's new processor roadmap, as the company migrates all of its CPU production to 90nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processes in early 2005, says DigiTimes. The report is based on its sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.

According to the report, AMD is all geared up to release its next-generation processors in the first half of next year. They'll be based on the 90nm Palermo core and code-named Sempron - both desktop and mobile versions will be produced.

The chip company will also boost output of its Athlon 64 processors to 65 per cent of its total CPU production in the second quarter of 2005, with the proportion of 939-pin chips higher than the 754-pin parts, the sources said, citing the AMD roadmap.

Full story: TechWorld

[GrandDad]

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According to the report, AMD is all geared up to release its next-generation processors in the first half of next year. They'll be based on the 90nm Palermo core and code-named Sempron - both desktop and mobile versions will be produced.

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The 'Sempron' has been out for some time already and its a cheaper ver. of Athlon XP's .

Maybe the price of a XP-3200 will get down in my price range before its time to replace my MB