AMD Athlon 512 kB / 0.13 um socket A ?

[THH]

Hi all,

I'm currently using an A7V133-board with a duron processor. In the near future I prefer to upgrade to an athlon processor. Of course I can choose for the Athlon XP (which is supported in the BIOS). But I would rather wait for a while and buy a .13 um version of this chip with 512 kB on die cache. The .13 feature will probably give me more overclocking flexibility and the advantage of a larger cache speaks for itself. The strange thing is that I only find reviews about the K8 Hammer architecture. This processor will definately be build with the .13 um SOI process. I thought DRESDEN is already equipped with .13 um lithography machines. I wonder if somebody can give me information if and when a .13 um Athlon (socket A) will be presented by AMD.

Thanks,

THH

 

[yodayoda]

here is AMD's most recent roadmap:

http://www.threecom.de/artikel/amdround1/

if you want to translate it, go through here:

babelfish

looks like the 0.13 um chips (the "thoroughbred" core) will not be out until the first half of '02. if this holy war between *ntel and AMD stays hot and AMD doesn't go out of business, it might come out sooner rather than later.

edit: the 0.13 um SOI chips aren't due out until the second half of that year. that is the "barton" core. of course, "hammer" should be out by then.

 

[AGodspeed]

An AMD Athlon on a .13 micron process won't be out until Q1, at best. Whether or not it will have 512kb of L2 cache is unknown right now. However, there's a good posibility it will happen, since the smaller the die, the more cache memory you can "fit" onto it.

Anyway, I think you're smart to wait for the .13 micron Athlons, because they will likely hold the performance crown for a while until the Hammer takes that spot, since the current Athlon XPs are consistently beating the competetion.

EDIT: The codename for the .13 micron Athlon is Thoroughbred.