Op de site van AMD is een pressrelease verschenen waarin wordt aangekondigd dat de eerste processoren met de Thoroughbred core eind deze maand op de markt zullen verschijnen. De Thoroughbred core is de eerste core van AMD die volgens een 0,13 micron procédé zal worden geproduceerd. Hierdoor wordt de die-size met 38 procent gereduceerd ten opzichte van de 'oude' Athlon XP's die op 0,18 micron zijn gefabriceerd. Helaas wordt de exacte release datum niet vermeld, evenals de kloksnelheid van de nieuwe Athlon XP's met Thoroughbred core:
At CeBIT, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it plans to begin shipping AMD Athlon™ XP processors codenamed 'Thoroughbred' based on .13 micron technology to customers later this month.
The move to state-of-the-art .13 process technology represents a significant evolution for the AMD Athlon processor family. With this transition, AMD expects its processors to deliver improved performance, lower power and smaller die sizes.
[...] "Our closest competitor's most recently announced processor on .13 micron technology is nearly 83 percent larger than AMDs .13 process solution," Siegle said. "Moving to .13 micron technology will enable us to produce higher-performing products while lowering costs, putting us in an even stronger competitive position."
By the end of 2002, AMD expects that all of the AMD Athlon processor family will be produced on .13 micron technology. AMD also expects to begin shipping its next-generation processor codenamed 'Hammer', which uses a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) version of the .13 micron technology, at the end of the year.
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