AMD’nin çok yakında çıkaracağı üç CPU hakkındaki detaylar.
Mustang
This CPU should become a rival to Intel Pentium III Xeon (512KB/2MB L2 cache working at the full core speed).
Mustang will feature:
512KB-4MB L2 cache working at the full core frequency
Supported working frequencies start from 1.4GHz
AMD 770 chipset supporting up to 2 CPUs per single North Bridge of the chipset and allows combining groups of “1 North Bridge + 2 CPUs” into kind of a chain with the help of a new AMD system bus: LDT. This is how multi-processor configurations will be arranged.
Due date: November 2000
Palomino
This CPU will be AMD’s response to Intel Pentium 4. However, it may also threaten the positions of elder Intel Pentium III models (of course, if the cost is appropriate). It will be available for desktop PCs and for mobile ones.
The key features include:
512KB L2 cache working at the full processor frequency
Up to 1,5GHz supported frequencies
Chipsets: AMD 760, AMD 760MP, VIA KX266, VIA KT133. No AMD 770 support.
Dual-processor configurations (with AMD 760MP and VIA KX266 chipsets)
Due date: November/December 2000.
Morgan
This CPU will come to replace AMD Duron. In fact, replacing Duron won’t make much sense, because it is anyway more attractive that Intel Celeron. However, this move is not ungrounded: it is easier to manufacture CPUs on one and the same core. Like in case of Palomino, there will be also two versions: desktop and mobile.
Here are the key features:
64KB or 128KB L2 cache working at the full core frequency
Starting working frequencies equal 900MHz
Chipsets: VIA KM133, KL-133, SiS 730S (i.e. chipsets for low-cost systems).
Due date: December 2000.
The manufacturing of these processors is also expected to be transferred to 0.13 micron technology approximately in Q3 2001 (AMD is most likely to involve IBM’s productive capacities). This transfer will help reduce power consumption and increase the core clock frequencies.
