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AMD Announces New Low-End Processor Line
beaverbrother points out these articles at CoolTechZone
and PC Magazine, writing "AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is slated to launch a new Sempron line of processors this summer, to compete with Intel's Celeron line. The processors are designed to perform basic tasks, such as word processing, and more advanced tasks, like playing video, with ease."
Will they overhead and melt down like the Celeron processors? Without this feature I doubt they will be able to effectively compete with the Celeron.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
So it's like a Duron, but with an even sillier name?
I feel sure this will immediately be spelt "sempr0n".
I mean Sempron? Opteron, Xeon, maybe I would by a new processor when they come out with the Orgasmatron!
*narf!*
From PC Magazine's article
Yes !! Finally, they've created a processor optimized to downloading music. With Sempron, you can download MP3s 10x faster than using Celeron!
Intel, eat my pants.
Now I remember why I cancelled my subscription to PC Magazine years ago....
Hidden performance problems that surface later - like Enron?, or is it just that when the heavy calculations need to be done, the high end chips will say "see you later on" while these low end ones stagger on.
AMD annnounced today the new line of Semprini proc...
(sounds of announcer being taken away...)
Those responsible for this announcement have been sacked.
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
my router/firewall alone is a 333PII, which, for the average luser is WAY more than enough.
Well, a 333 P2 would choke on just half of the spyware that's installed on Joe 6 Pack's computer, so I doubt he'd be happy with the performance.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
And for the energy and utility markets, they're making a new line of processors called the Enron. But I hear their beta version had problems with the floating-point unit... it kept inflating numbers by 20% to 50%.
They wanted to emphasize that this was "more" than just a celeron, and of course, they had to keep the -on suffix.
Introducing the AMD Moron....
The first thing the name "Sempron" reminded of was the fact that Semper is a Swedish brand of baby formula.
Maybe I should RTFA...
NOOOO! Don't do it! Just imagine the chaos if EVERYBODY clicked that link at the same time. We might even crash the server!
*shudders at the thought*
Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
AMD Spermon?
AMD Sempr0n?
I'd like to applaud the marketing people at AMD for showing that even though you are severely retarded, you can still come up with a name for a a discount CPU.
And cheers to AMD for having such enlightened hiring practices! Most companies reserve the mentally deficient for IT jobs.
New from K-Tel! The Dadooron cpu.
Brought it home on Monday and my heart stood still.
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron.
Loaded up this OS from a guy named Bill.
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron.
Whoa, my heart stood still.
Yeah, an OS from Bill.
And then I booted up my,
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron.
They knew what they were doin' when they caught my eye.
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron.
A really nifty box and lots of pie in the sky.
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron
Yeah, they caught my eye,
With all that pie in the sky.
And when I booted up my,
Dadooron ron ron, Dadooron ron.
But wait! Don't order yet. Call before midnight tonight and get a Moron XML4000 Ultra Plus with bluing for extra whiteness at no extra cost!
KFG
Well, if you translated Athlon from English to Japanese to English, you might get Athron...
AMD announces the Simpleton processor line. Designed to be a replacment for the older Moron line, the Simpleton features 4 more letters in its name. The new line is designed to compete with the current Intel Cheaparon line.