20050624

64 Bit Semprons Coming


Well, it looks like the battle for the low end of the market is going to get interesting. 64 bit Semprons are coming. whoever thought that a 64 bit 3300+ processor would be considerd "low end." Look for these in some of the back to school and Christmas models to be released over the next few months.
SOURCES CLAIMED AMD is close to releasing a whole set of cut down Sempron microprocessors which will include iAMD 64 bit support.
That could be as early as the middle of July, according to people close to AMD's plans in Taiwan.

The E6 stepping will use socket 754 and if you want to you'll be able to overclock them to your heart's desire.

The same sources claim the 64-bit Sempr0ns will be released at 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+ and 3300+ numbers.

No comments: