As a matter of fact, AMD has long been making Semprons for the Socket 939 platform, but only for computer manufacturers rather than for retail sales. For example, Fujitsu-Siemens and HP have been offering Socket 939 Sempron-based PCs almost since the beginning of this year. About 10% of all Semprons based on the K8 architecture were made in Socket 939 packaging in the first half of 2005 to meet the demand of leading PC suppliers and this percentage has grown up more by today, of course.
And since there are so many Socket 939 Sempron processors produced, we could expect them to emerge in the retail market, too, sooner or later. And last week we really spotted such processors in a few retail shops here, in Moscow. And since the Socket 939 Sempron may be like a completely new processor for many users, we decided to buy one and test it our labs.
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