Als dit bericht van The Register klopt kunnen we, in tegenstelling tot deze info, tóch wel al snel met de nieuwe AMD Athlon 'Palomino' gaan spelen. Volgens een interne roadmap van begin deze maand zal de Palomino namelijk nog in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar in productie gaan, op een snelheid van 1,2GHz (in plaats van een introductie in juni @ 1,4GHz):
AMD may not have delayed Palomino, ClawHammer and co. after all. The updated AMD desktop processor roadmap published yesterday by Germany's c't magazine doesn't appear to be quite as up-to-date as we had first supposed.
That, at least, is what a presentation AMD's president and COO, Hector Ruiz, made to the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Semiconductor and Systems Conference on 6 March suggests. Along with much pro-AMD fluff, the presentation contains a processor roadmap which pretty much matches the one we saw last December.
According to both, Palomino, the Athlon design that will succeed the current core, Thunderbird, will ship Q1 2001 at speeds of over 1.2GHz, and not next July at 1.4GHz as indicated by the c't roadmap. [break]
Het is nog even afwachten welke roadmap we nu moeten geloven, maar een snelle introductie @ 1,2GHz en een upgrade naar 1,4GHz in het tweede kwartaal is vrij aannemelijk.[/break] A note from our chums over at c't suggests a reconciliation: their roadmap comes not from AMD but from a mobo maker. "Our experience is that those third-party roadmaps are ofen more precise... wait'n see."
And it occurs to us that the two versions are not entirely incompatible. Palomino going into volume production this quarter at over 1.2GHz doesn't mean that the 1.4GHz version isn't going to ship in June (as per the c't article) or July (as per the mysterious roadmap).