What is an Albany?

[Ketchup]

About a year ago a buddy of mine gave me an old dell laptop. I threw a wireless card in it, and it became quite handy. Well, it finally died, so I found a nice deal on a Compaq V5000. Nothing fancy, but a huge step up from a PIII 750.

When I bought it, all I knew is it had a Sempron 3300. After I got it home, I found out it was a 64-bit chip, which made me pretty happy.

My question is, when I pull it up on CPU-Z, it says it is an Albany. I have never heard of that one. Anybody know what it is? I looked on Newegg, and they have it listed as a Palmero.

 

[Corporate Thug]

The Mobile Sempron is also undergoing a change from the older Georgetown core to the new Albany core (and before Georgetown was the Dublin core). You might still see some of the older core versions out there, but the Albany core is the preferred model, as the 90nm SOI provides much better power and thermal characteristics. While the desktop Sempron parts are slated to get 64-bit support, the mobile parts will remain 32-bit only for the time being. To quote the roadmap, "AMD will introduce 64-bit enabled Mobile AMD Sempron only when it makes sense for our value notebook customers." In other words, most value notebooks ship with lower end components, so 64-bit addressing isn't going to be terribly important for a laptop with 256 or 512 MB of RAM.

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2476

 

[Ketchup]

Thanks fof the info. That makes sense as I was pleasantly surprised to find my battery life is ~3 hours. I am glad they started shipping with the 64-bit chips too. Now all I need to do is bump the memory from 512 to 1 gig and this thing should really be smoking. Not bad for a $550 laptop.

 

[996GT2]

Not bad indeed