The Register heeft meer info gepost over de nieuwe Athlon modellen die medio volgend jaar door AMD geïntroduceerd zullen worden (zie ook deze nieuwsposting van eerder vandaag):
Thunderbird will be a .18 micron K7 device with on die cache and coming in both Slot A and Socket A configurations.Spitfire will be a chip with on-die cache and aimed at the Intel Celeron market. It will use Socket A.
Mustang will be an Athlon with on-die cache of up to 2Mb, using an enhanced core and coming in both Socket A and Slot A configuration. There will be another version of Mustang aimed at the low end mobile market and coming in a Socket A configuration.
Through 2000, AMD will move from a .18 aluminium interconnect to a .18 copper interconnect technology, with processor speeds at and surpassing 1GHz and using a 256MHz front side system bus.
AMD will also introduce SMP Athlons for two to eight way systems, and employing the double data rate (DDR) memory configuration, having a 266MHz front side bus, and supporting 4X AGP Pro and PCI 66/64. The company will look to scale these processors even higher, using either Alpha technology or its own Hotrail technology.
