Volgens betrouwbare bronnen van iXBT Labs heeft AMD de release van de Thunderbird (Athlon Professional) een maand vooruitgeschoven naar mei van dit jaar. Thunderbird zal geïntroduceerd worden op kloksnelheden van 700 tot 900MHz en zal in Juni als eerste desktop processor de magische 1GHz barrière doorbreken:
Thunderbird - AMD's first Socket-A processor, almost ready for production. 1.1GHz sample of this CPU was demonstrated at ISSCC, AMD will start sampling in March-April with the volume production start in May. It will initially run at 700-900Mhz (Athlon will have the same speed at this time), will reach 1GHz in June and will completely replace Athlon. 800MHz ThunderBird will become an entry-level model in $1200-1300 PCs class by September. Power - 1.7 V. Spitfire - engineering samples in March, customers samples - in April, production - in May. AMD targets Spitfire to Celeron-level market, so we can expect Celeron-level price. Initial speed - 600-700 MHz with 750 MHz by September. Power - 1.5 V. [break] Wat betreft chipsets is er ook positief nieuws: vorige week maakte AMD bekend dat het voor de AMD 760 en 770 (SMP) chipsets nog steeds mikt op een release in de tweede helft van dit jaar. Eind januari leek het er nog op dat de 760 en 770 gedelayed zouden worden tot 2001: [/break] The company is developing a new chip set for use with the Thunderbird processors. The most important feature of the new chip set, called the AMD 760, is that it will boost the EV6 bus speed from 200MHz to 266MHz.The 760, due in the second half, will also support a quadruple-speed accelerated graphics port, as well as double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic RAM at 200MHz and 266MHz.
VIA Technologies will also release a new chip set for Athlon on Socket A. Called the VIA KZ133, the chip set will support quadruple-speed AGP and 133MHz SDRAM, otherwise known as PC133 memory.
[...] For Mustang, AMD will release a new chip set, the AMD 770, which will support two-way processing and also offer a 266MHz bus and support for 266MHz DDR.
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