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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?
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.
All tasks not requiring screaming fast processors. This is not for servers or gamers, it's for the other 75% of the PC market.
I feel sure this will immediately be spelt "sempr0n".
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.
Unfortunately, it seems that consumers are only able to keep track of one or two processor family names per manufacturer. Intel: Pentium/Celeron, Apple/Motorola: G4/G5, AMD: Athlon/Duron. Though the marketing people try hard, the Centrinos and Semperons are destined to become forgotten, no matter what their architectural/price advantages.
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?
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%.
Are you sure they left pr0n out of the semPRON?
The average "luser", as you like to refer to the overwhelming majority of PC users, wants to run an OS that they are familiar with and that's current. I'd like to see you run something more powerful/recent than, say, Windows 98 on a 333MHz Pentium II and see how much time you'd waste just looking at the hourglass.
Oh, and newsflash for you: Joe Sixpack wants to do more on his PC nowadays than just word process and play solitaire.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
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)
No.
"semper" is latin for "always", "everytime", "ever".
"durus" means "enduring", "hard".
So the name suggests this being the successor of the Duron.
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.
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KFG
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.