AMD to market discount Sempron chip for notebooks and desktops

[NFS4]

Who the *&@$ comes up with these names?????????

AMD to market discount Sempron

 

[Sunner]

Here in Sweden we have a brand of gruel called "Semper", that's the first thing I thought of when I saw that name

 

[NFS4]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~86164,00.html

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Here in Sweden we have a brand of gruel called "Semper", that's the first thing I thought of when I saw that name

That's ok. Here in USA, "Athlon" is the material that public toilet stalls are made out of. Go figure.

 

[Lonyo]

Athlon is the name of a laminated panel used as a divider for bathroom stalls.

And Sempron is bad?!

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Sunner
Here in Sweden we have a brand of gruel called "Semper", that's the first thing I thought of when I saw that name

That's ok. Here in USA, "Athlon" is the material that public toilet stalls are made out of. Go figure.

Well, at least Athlon could sound kinda cool...almost, and Opteron ain't too bad at all.
Duron is probably the best name though, easy to pronounce and doesn't sound too wierd.

Sempron though, even without the Semper reference it just plain sucks, who the fvck came up with that???

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Sunner
Here in Sweden we have a brand of gruel called "Semper", that's the first thing I thought of when I saw that name

That's ok. Here in USA, "Athlon" is the material that public toilet stalls are made out of. Go figure.

Well, at least Athlon could sound kinda cool...almost, and Opteron ain't too bad at all.
Duron is probably the best name though, easy to pronounce and doesn't sound too wierd.

Sempron though, even without the Semper reference it just plain sucks, who the fvck came up with that???

lol my thoughts as well

 

[VirtualLarry]

I still don't know why some company hasn't made a chip named "Sexeron". It's probably a bit too late for AMD to use that one though, seeing as how it's chips are 7th- and 8th-generation designs now.

Maybe follow in the footsteps of import british cars? "AMD Mini-XP" ? (ala "Mini-Cooper"?)

I'm personally waiting for a CPU named "Megatron". Only thing is, it will probably become self-aware, and attempt to take over the world. *cue Transformers theme music*

 

[Budman]

What is it going to run on? Socket A ?

 

[KDOG]

yeah, really, what are the specs on it?

 

[remagavon]

The cpu's are athlon 64's with half the cache and no 64 bit support.

 

[NFS4]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040607122704.html

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Sunner
Here in Sweden we have a brand of gruel called "Semper", that's the first thing I thought of when I saw that name

That's ok. Here in USA, "Athlon" is the material that public toilet stalls are made out of. Go figure.

And there's some paint company named "Duron."

 

[VirtualLarry]

Overclockers.com article

(They suggest "Hemperon" as an alternative name, along with several others. Kind of a funny read.

 

[Megatomic]

These are the Socket 754 AXPs we've been hearing about for months now. The only thing new here is the product name. And I agree, it's a loser of a name.

 

[Schadenfroh]

they need to start advertising to get some brand recognition with the noobs!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
These are the Socket 754 AXPs we've been hearing about for months now. The only thing new here is the product name. And I agree, it's a loser of a name.

Sounds like a loser of a chip too. I suggest "Castron" as a name - after all, it's basically a 64-bit CPU, *minus* its proper 64-bit parts. The parallels should be obvious...

(Plus, it starts with 'C', which could help clueless consumers confuse it with Celeron.)

 

[biostud]

linux

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Overclockers.com article

(They suggest "Hemperon" as an alternative name, along with several others. Kind of a funny read.

I'd prefer Pimperon

 

[episodic]

Wonder if the pencil trick will enable the full 64 bit capability - ahh to dream.

 

[3chordcharlie]

It must take a special kind of idiot to be in marketing at AMD. Why in god's name would they spend half a decade creating a brilliant processor, finally take a real lead over intel - on technology, not just a little speed a la original Athlon - and then follow it up by castrating the technology from the chip and making plans to sell that to a large part of their market?

If I were marketing for AMD, I would do everything I could to make sure every possible chip is 64-bit compatible. I don't care how bad the performance of the chip is - with an integrated memory controller, they could cut out the entire L2 cache from defective chips and still man-handle the celeron in every meaningful benchmark. AMD finally has a product that not only competes with intel, but is very much the better choice looking forward to the next few years, and yet they insist on making it an 'elite' product. First they talk about athlon xp for s754, and now sempron. I'd sooner buy an a64 @500mhz than either of these 'brilliant' budget products.

 

[Mermaidman]

The original Duron. I never liked the Duron name, but 'Sempron' . . . Ugh--now, if it's spelled

Sempr0n

Then maybe I'd buy it

 

[Abhi]

Stupid name...

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
they could cut out the entire L2 cache from defective chips and still man-handle the celeron in every meaningful benchmark.

Thats very doubtful.

Try disabling the L2 cache and see how horrible the performance is. The main reason the Celeron's performance is bad is because of its small L2 cache. Take L2 away, and you get crap performance regardless of chip.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
The original Duron. I never liked the Duron name, but 'Sempron' . . . Ugh--now, if it's spelled

Sempr0n

Then maybe I'd buy it

ROFL :beer: