The Register heeft de primeur met de eerste prijzen van de AMD Thunderbird. Ik heb de prijzen hieronder een tabelletje gemikt, met de Athlon prijzen van 18 april als referentie. Zoals je ziet is de Thunderbird absoluut niet onvriendelijk geprijst:
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De Thunderbird wordt op 12 juni gereleased en gaat gewoon 'Athlon' heten. Volgens informatie die The Register bij elkaar puzzelde zijn de socket A CPU's van AMD niet clock-locked!:
On the KZ133 front, Gigabyte, Microstar and Biostar are likely to be first out of the starting gates. Except we have now had it confirmed from a source within Via that the KZ moniker has now changed to KT. This is because KZ has an unfortunate connotation in Germany, being the initials for concentration camp. Although the change will involve some cost to Via in terms of data sheets and the like, we are informed the firm felt this was the right thing to do.And according to other, reliable reports, there isn't any clock locking on Socket A. Both engineering samples and production units are not clock locked. Spitfire (Duron) has a lower core voltage than the T'Bird Athlon, and power consumption is very high indeed.