The Register heeft het één en ander aan nieuws bij elkaar weten te schrapen over de plannen van AMD voor 24 april aanstaande. Op die datum wordt Celeron-concurrent Spitfire gereleased en worden en passant de prijzen van de K6-2 en de Athlon flink omlaag gehakt. De Athlon 600 wordt richting processor-bejaardenhuis gestuurd:
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A reseller of AMD products has revealed information about aggressive pricing changes the firm will make on the 24th of April next, and has also included details of Spitfire pricing the firm will announce on the same date.
A Spitfire 550MHz will cost $79, a 600MHz $99, a 650MHz $140, and a 700MHz $175. On the same date, the K6-2 will cost $50, and while there will be changes to the 533MHz and 550MHz K6-2s, no details of those have yet been disclosed.
Athlon prices, as we have reported here in the past, will be aggressively pitched against Intel's offerings. The 1GHz will drop to $1071, the 950MHz will cost $722, the 900MHz will cost $589, the 850MHz will cost $429, the 800MHz will cost $323, the 750MHz will cost $242, the 700MHz will cost $187, the 650MHz will cost $163, and the 600MHz Athlon will also cost $163 as it is shuffled out of the equation.
At the end of this year, there will be new multimedia extensions called SIMB, which will handle double precision FP numbers, and beat the current floating point scores. AMD is working closely with Microsoft to produce compliant OS and application software for the 64-bit Sledgehammer platform, when it arrives.
DE grote prijskraker is nog steeds de Athlon 700. De prijs per 1000 komt rond de F 400,- te liggen, in de winkel dus minder dan F 500,-!!
De 800 MHz versie, sneller dan wat Intel met goed fatsoen kan leveren komt op een kleine F 850,-
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