.13 AMDs - when...

[MrPG]

AMD said we'd see the first .13 line up Q1 of this year.. watching amd.com's press releases like a hawk and still no word. Anyone heard any info on release dates/speeds etc..

 

[FatMan42]

AMD have been saying that it will be some time Q2 for a while. That was reiterated a few days ago in another AMD analyst briefing. So - any time between March and June...

Regarding speeds - slide 9/30 gives a roadmap with intro T-bred speeds of PR-2400, with PR-2600 in Q3. Hammer then kicks in at PR-3400 in Q4, with T-bred going to PR-2800.

 

[AGodspeed]

AMD official line is that they will ship the first Thoroughbred processors during this quarter (which ends March 31st). It's very likely AMD will ship the first T-bred processors during the month of March. It has been widely rumored that AMD will launch the first Thoroughbred processor at CeBIT, which is March 13th-20th. If that's the case, Thoroughbred will likely become available in retail channels during the first few weeks of April.

Also, AMD will launch a regular .18u Athlon XP @ 1.8GHz (2200+) before this quarter is over (before March 31st). I'm guessing that AMD will announce both the 2200+ .18u Athlon XP and the 2400+ (1.93GHz) Thoroughbred .13u Athlon XP at CeBIT.

 

[KenAF]

Of course, there are some of us...that are not quite as optimistic as AGodSpeed.

 

[n18mets]

I am another one of them (although I would be delighted if he is correct)

 

[Stiganator]

Adding on the the initial question, will thoroughbreds have SMP support? If they do then I'll start saving up for those instead of picking up some XPs.

 

[jcmkk]

About the SMP. I'm don't have any facts to back this up, but I am almost certain that the T-bred will have SMP capabilities. It is not like they have to specifically design a new chip to feature this. They just test a few in a SMP situation, slap a certification on them and charge more money for the same CPU. Of course, they may be saving the SMP functionality for the T-bred CPUs coming out later down the line with a larger cache. I wouldn't wait though. By the time the T-breds finally come out, there will be some other really cool piece of hardware coming out a month from then, and you'll want to wait for that. It is a vicious cycle. It has said time and time before, buy when you are ready to, not when the next best hardware is coming out.

 

[EdipisReks]

i hope that the T-bred ships sometime in april. if they are closer to june, i might have to go buy a regular XP proc or maybe (and perhaps more likely) buy a northwood and motherboard and sell my current proc and board (i'm starting to get sick of a system that requires a delta fan to run properly).

[edit: i'm also sick of risking breaking my processor. i just rounded the corner of my core (which raised my idle temps, but didn't seem to do anything else) and i have killed a duron in the past. the p4 system a friend of mine just built is fool proof, and VERY VERY fast. there is no way that youn could break the damn thing and the heatsink retention design rocks. the T-bred had better be real fast and not too expensive, or i won't be buying one.]

--jacob

 

[ztadmin]

the thoroughbreds will have smp support

 

[KenAF]

The "Thoroughbred" Athlon XP is just a shrinked version of the "Palomino" Athlon XP...it's smaller and will run cooler...that's about it. The "Palomino" Athlon XP supports SMP, and the "Thoroughbred" Athlon XP may or may not have SMP support disabled, but the Athlon MP version of the chip will undoubtedly support dual processing, even if the XP does not.