AMD to skip thoroughbred??

[grooves12]

It sure seems like AMD is taking its sweet time to release thoroughbred to market. Is it likely that with the recent advances the Pentium 4 has made in the market they have decided that a mere clock speed bump will not be enough to stay competitive and decided to go back and retool in favor of Barton?? This would be a smart move IMO, but Im not in charge of making the decisions for AMD so, who knows. It just seems to me if I remember correctly Thoroughbred was supposed to be out quite a while ago, and Barton was supposed to surface about this time, so since the XP was able to keep off competition this long... maybe they deemed the simple die shrink Thoroughbred was offering was not enough... and it would be smarter and more cost effective to just skip it all together in favor of what would eventually come anyways (Barton.)

.... or are they just giving up on the Athlon core and banking on Hammer to take them to the

 

[Athlon4all]

To be frank, that is a very possible thing, however, it all depends on how many T-Breds they have produced already. I can see it happening maybe, but likely? Prolly not likely.

 

[Rand]

At the absolute least it will be availible in the mobile market, as way too many Mobile Thoroughbred's have already shipping to OEM since mid April.

 

[AGodspeed]

Originally posted by: Rand
At the absolute least it will be availible in the mobile market, as way too many Mobile Thoroughbred's have already shipping to OEM since mid April.

Rand makes a very good point. If AMD does decide not to bring Tbred to the desktop market, it's still basically a 100% certainly that mobile Tbreds will exist in the marketplace.