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AnandTech Peeks At The Athlon 4
tupac writes: "AnandTech has posted a story about AMD's new Athlon 4 processor and also included some information about Silicon on Insulator transistors in their article. SOI technology has been used by IBM in recent history and AMD will begin using it in 2002." This is the chip which has been known for a while as Palomino. Reader Diabolus points to the same article, saying "the big news is a 20% reduction in power consumption, and that they'll be using the exact same chip for servers, workstations, desktops and even notebooks. The article details exactly what is new compared with the Tbird."
Ace's Hardware has a nice summary and set of links for the Athlon 4.
Unfortunately Sharkyextreme and HardOCP do not have reviews of the chip up for comparison yet.
Tom's does have a review up.
...was created so that Intel could have an enforcable trademark on their chip name (unlike 386 or 486).
:-) Time to roll out the Sexium.
So now, because marketing got so attached to the name "Pentium," AMD can again match version numbers in their product names.
That's hilarious. Heads are gonna roll.
sig fault
2)Socket A Thunderbird with larger/faster cache.
3)"Athlon C". Thunderbird core with 266 MHz bus.
4) Upcoming Palomino core discussed in the article.
It's not that hard, people
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
The most important part of this article was AMD's statement that the socket-A layout will continue throughout this series and the next two.
Contrast this to Intel, who is so bent on shoving stuff down our throats that they willingly sell products that have a short or no real life span expectancy. (p462 anyone?)
I think this statement from AMD may actually help them among the fence sitting OEMs who still seem glued to AMD. By keeping the same socket it allowd manufacturers to refine the product, instead of trying to figure out a new one.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
All of these changes sound good on paper, but it seems AMD has overlooked one detail. The pentium 4 core was built to allow for an amazing ramp-up of clock speeds. That's why it has a 20 stage pipeline. What Intel definitely understands is that the public thinks Mhz == speed. Yes, the enthusiast crowd knows this is false, but it sells anyway. I wonder how far they can push the improved Athlon core before they hit architectural limits on speed....
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.