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AnandTech Peeks At The Athlon 4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marketing-drives-nomenclature dept.

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."

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  1. More coverage... by jeffsenter · · Score: 5

    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.

  2. Socket-A continuance shows AMD more concerned. by Shivetya · · Score: 5

    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.

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