Thoroughbred: forse avrà più cache
Cominciano ad apparire i primi rumors riguardanti il successore del core Palomino, con processo produttivo a 0.13 micron. Pare che AMD sia indecisa sul quantitativo di memoria cache da inserire, 256Kb o 512 ?.
In parallelo, l'Athlon XP attuale arriverà addirittura a 1800MHz (XP 2200+), probabilmente con ulteriori ottimizzazioni al core.
Other details are that it will run at 1800MHz, using a 133 x 13.5 multiplier, have a 64-bit dual pumped bus, operate at 1.75 volts, and have 64K data two way as well as 64K instructions, also two way.
The XP-2500 using Thoroughbred will indeed launch in Q2 of this year but it seems the amount of on die level two cache is not decided - meaning it's likely to be higher. It will have a 80 millimetre square die and use the .13 micron process that is currently sampling.
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