Chip News To Crunch On

kupolu writes: "According to this article at Techweb, AMD announced last Friday that it is dropping its plans for the Mustang processor in favor of the new AMD-760 DDR-Enabled chipset. The Mustang was going to be AMD's entry into the server market, with it's amazing up-to 2MB L2 Cache." (Actually, from this article it's hard to tell if even AMD knows what's going on; tweezing apart the code names from the capabilities of particular products to be offered is complicated.) But on the coming-out instead of dropping-off front, proxima writes: "This story on Yahoo describes that Intel is releasing two new Celeron chips on Monday. One, a 733 Mhz model, will cost $112 per chip in bulk. A 766 Mhz model will cost $170 per chip."

Comments

Where do these Names Come From?

[vergil]

I'm hardly a hardware expert ... actually, I was an English major. So pardon my ignorance.

As I read over the aforementioned article, one question lodged in my brain:
Where do the names for these chips come from?

The following monikers were mentioned in the article:

Morgan
Mustang
Athlon
Palomino
Clawhammer

I suppose the typical focus groups were convened, and chose names that connote speed, agility, and -- in the case of "Clawhammer" -- driving, forceful impact.

'Else someone at AMD has a severe horse fetish.

Sincerely,
Vergil

What is Intel Thinking?

[dgb2n]

$170 for a 766 Celeron in bulk? Even if they plan to release the chip on a 100 MHz bus, the price is way out of bounds. Take a look at the current lowest pricewatch numbers on processors:

AMD Duron - 750 $74, 800 $97
AMD Thunderbird 850 $142, 900 $165, 950 $222
Intel Celeron 700 $76
Intel - Pentium III 667 $149, 733 $173,750 $181, 800 $181

I'm not trying to start an AMD vs. Intel war but Intel's current release and price point doesn't even fit into their own chip lines let alone compete with AMD. Get real. You can get a 900 MHz Thunderbird for less money.