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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?
So, the marketing strategy is that the new chip name sounds so similar that people will get confused and buy a Sempron when they meant to buy a Celeron?
Well, at least it sounds less like vegetable.
Big numbers on box with little actual performance, for people who want big numbers but don't really need a powerful computer(or have a clue, of course, if you're without a clue you don't really need a powerful computer so..)...
if it's a celeron competitor that is..
hopefully it'll be at least very affordable..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Celeron, Duron, and now Sempron Am I missing something?
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!*
What they're getting at is that its designed for basic functionality like your word-process and your basic video decoding.
What this processor is probably not aimed at is high end video encoding/transcoding - 3D (openGL or DirectX) gaming or high-load server processing.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
That as much as we like to rip on 'choked' CPU's, Joe 6Pack doesn't NEED 1/2 the processing power that most of US use in our routers!
Jesus Christ, my router/firewall alone is a 333PII, which, for the average luser is WAY more than enough.
That said, I'm all for a new low-end CPU from AMD, let's me keep my overhead low and profits high. Good stuff, have some.
Don't park drunk, accidents cause people.
The article says it's a 32-bit replacemnent for Duron to compete with Intel's Celeron at around 2.8GHz.
So why don't they just lower Athlon's price enough to compete with Celeron? Or is this Sempron simply a rebranded Athlon, while Duron is a crippled Ahtlon?
At first I thought AMD is introducing a dumped down 64-bit Athlon, that might be something, as the price of Athlon64 is still too expensive.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
The Athlon XP line is actually very competitively priced against the celeron. For example the XP2500+ is $125.00 Canadian compared to the Celeron 2.6Ghz which is $120.00 Canadian. The only difference between the XP and the Celeron is that the XP is WAY faster in many areas (e.g. gaming). So is this new budget line going to decrease performance in order to "compete" with the celeron?
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....
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... --
I purchased a boxed XP 2500 w/ motherboard from Fry's this weekend for $69.00. The Athlons are already a better deal than the Celerons.
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....
These will probably work fine in thin clients connected to a server running a stable, multitasking, multi-user OS. Actually, they may even be overkill for that.
Imagine a tiny motherboard using one of these with a basic amount of soldered-in RAM, on-board video and NIC, and an on-board boot flash containing LTSP. Voila, a compact, cheap license-free, diskless, plug-and-play, workstation! How's that for putting Linux on the desktop?
An open hardware project, anyone?
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.
\Sim"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Simpered; p. pr. & vb. n. Simpering.] [Cf. Norw. semper fine, smart, dial. Dan. semper, simper, affected, coy, prudish, OSw. semper one who affectedly refrains from eating, Sw. sipp finical, prim, LG. sipp.] 1. To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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.