Dual Sempron?

[BlindBartimaeus]

Since everything is going dual core...does anyone know when these will be out?

 

[CheesePoofs]

I just checked AMD's roadmaps and I don't see one listed. It goes up until 2nd half of 2005.

 

[Aenslead]

Its as likely as a DC Celeron.

 

[Hacp]

i'd be drooling just for a 939 sempron.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Hacp
i'd be drooling just for a 939 sempron.

Those are sppposedly comign late Q3 or Q4.

 

[cryptonomicon]

hmm. well i am a big fan of sempron but I am surprised you guys are so optimistic. i think even anand's articles declared the 754 platform and sempron dead meat soon.

 

[dguy6789]

Socket 754 was stated to stop having new Athlon 64s. It was stated to continue to live for a good while with newer and newer semprons.

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Socket 754 was stated to stop having new Athlon 64s. It was stated to continue to live for a good while with newer and newer semprons.

True. And the odds of there being a dual core 754 chip are VERY low.

 

[Vegitto]

I don't think s939 Sempr0ns'll be out. Maybe on sM2.

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

if the semprons die amd will have no low end chip. also what is q3 and q4?? and is sm2 the next socket? or the next next socket?

 

[RichUK]

no socket F - Athlons (940pins) and M2- for opterons (1200 ish pins) are the next sockets for AMD

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: RichUK
no socket F - Athlons (940pins) and M2- for opterons (1200 ish pins) are the next sockets for AMD

Nope, it's the other way around, my friend. I believe it's like this:
s1 (638 pins, I believe), sM2 (940 pins, but different design than S940 now) and sF (1207 pins, for servers and multiple-socket workstations)

 

[Viditor]

64-bit 939 Semprons are due out this year.

They will be on M2 as well as 939 next year, and DC Semprons will certainly be released after the mainstream desktop A64 DCs are released (that's what they do with the chips that have cache errors).
In fact it's quite possible we'll see DC Semprons on 939 by the end of this year (made up of cache-failed X2 parts).

 

[imported_wyrmrider]

Dual Semprons
just build two boxes and hook em together with a lan or crossover cable or direct connect with parallel or serial cables or Laplink- or WIRELESS the possibilities are endless
you'd sort of have the logical equilivant of Intel's dual chip quick and dirty scheme

Wyrmrider

 

[Lord Banshee]

Originally posted by: wyrmrider
Dual Semprons
just build two boxes and hook em together with a lan or crossover cable or direct connect with parallel or serial cables or Laplink- or WIRELESS the possibilities are endless
you'd sort of have the logical equilivant of Intel's dual chip quick and dirty scheme

Wyrmrider

Not all software can do that.. Really i only know of 2-3% that does and most are for Linux and Cost lots of money.

 

[imported_wyrmrider]

you are of course correct lord banshee- dual 754 pin semprons? is this a serious thread
or are we talking socket A
I do have three boxes in this room run all that encoder stuff in batch on second machine, other machine is for financials it does not connect directly with the web

 

[Avalon]

s939 Semprons are due out by the end of this year. That will effectively give them dual channel bandwidth, and current Semprons already have SSE3. Soon they will have x86-64 extensions as well, to compete with the 64bit enabled Celeron. The next logical step should be dual core Sempies, which will be fantastic for me. Prices should be significantly cheaper than the X2, while the only thing I'll be sacrificing is a little L2 cache that makes about 5% difference in real world applications. Maybe 10%, since we're talking two cores, but if I'm saving hundreds of dollars, I won't care.

 

[biostud]

keep semprons single core and A64 dualcore?

 

[BlindBartimaeus]

Since they will do this will laptops as well...I wonder if there is a possibility of a 754 variant.

 

[Jeff7181]

When mainstream CPU's have many cores, and every application written is written with multi-threading in mind, then you might see dual core value chips. Till then, they'll be single core... probably the same silicon as the dual core chips with one core disabled as single core chips are phased out in the mid range.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
When mainstream CPU's have many cores, and every application written is written with multi-threading in mind, then you might see dual core value chips. Till then, they'll be single core... probably the same silicon as the dual core chips with one core disabled as single core chips are phased out in the mid range.

I wonder if there will be any possibility of unlocking "faulty" cores in disabled chips of any type in the future. That would be neat.