EBN Online heeft een interview online staan met AMD over hun processor roadmap. De komende 5 maanden komen er in ieder geval veel nieuwe en snellere Athlons uit, waaronder de Mustang voor workstations en severs, de Palomino (voorheen Corvette genoemd) en de Morgan (voorheen Camaro). De laatste twee komen zowel in mobile als desktop versies en krijgen respectivelijk 256kB en 64kB on-chip cache. Hieronder wat meer info:
EBN: What is the road map for your new Athlon processor versions?
Ruiz: AMD will introduce five new processors between Nov. 15 and Feb. 15. This includes Mustang, which has a range of on-chip cache from 512 Kbytes to 2 Mbytes, depending on customer need. Mustang will be AMD's highest-performance entry into the workstation and server markets.
The Palomino [formerly known as the Corvette] will expand on-chip cache to 256 Kbytes using the Athlon core, and be available in both a desktop and mobile version. A new value-segment processor called Morgan [formerly the Camaro] will have 64-Kbyte on-chip cache and also come in separate desktop and mobile versions.
[Ruiz shrugged off the company's last-minute name changes for some of its processors. “General Motors didn't like some of our previous processor names,” he said, adding that AMD will now “ride horses that aren't trademarked.”]
EBN: AMD and Intel are in a high-performance-processor speed race. How fast does AMD intend to move to new speed grades?
Ruiz: We're shipping 1.1-GHz Athlons in volume. [He declined to divulge the size of these shipments.] This is a real part, not a poster child posing for leadership. On Aug. 28, our OEM customers will announce a range of PC products that can be delivered immediately using 1.1-GHz Athlons.