0.13µm Athlon XP?

[The Coolest]

I know that AMD is gonna get out w/ a "Thoroghbred" (or something :)) and its gonna be Athlon/AthlonXP in 0.13µm???
That would be cool to see how far will it overclock w/ a good stepping.... Or is it too far away?

[Mr B]

Let me go digging for the roadmap...lol I believe the "Thoroughbred" is due out 3Q of '02. Let me go find that map...

BRB. ;)

Found it! Here's where;

http://www2.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_608,00.html

It says the "Thoroughbred" is due out 1H (not 3Q, as I mentioned above...sorry!) of 2002.

Cheers!

[Kendan]

Just around the corner I will upgrade once they drop in price .

[Oni]

I believe that its 1Q 2002. Thats what I'm waiting for.

[The Coolest]

The question I realy wanted to ask was: How much better will the Thoroghbred O/C than the T-Bird/XP?

[el]

they will run with a lower vcore so temps lower and better overclocks! and longer power on laptops too!

[oc jason]

ill try to post he link, truth of not i dont know, but a rep at Intel bought a 1900+ and after disecting it they said it was already in the 0.13 micron process and that AMD is cheating,and that is how the 0.18, .15 micron is performing so well against Intel, but frankly i would not hold it against em

[Lynx]

Sorry but you cannot disect a cpu there are no layers and even with an electron microscope if you sliced the top off the cpu you would end up with the cpu fracturing an the transistors would look closer together.

[jossi]

I think XP+ line is using partly 0.13 micron process. It`s not entirely 0.13. It`s transition processor towards completely 0.13 micron process.

[Tomas]

Originally posted by [OC] Jason
ill try to post he link, truth of not i dont know, but a rep at Intel bought a 1900+ and after disecting it they said it was already in the 0.13 micron process and that AMD is cheating,and that is how the 0.18, .15 micron is performing so well against Intel, but frankly i would not hold it against em

Thats BS from intel..... Im pretty sure they still are .18 micro, and .13 you wont notice any difference in speed, Just lower temps, voltage wich means higher clockspeed. The increase in performance because of .13 micro is so microscopic that you wont notice a difference.

[BigPappaP]

.13 micron is faster, because it is smaller and the amount of heat produced is reduced. I dont know why, but i'm sure somebody here could give you a good explanation on that one. I actually believe that AMD has .13 micron inside their processors. One reason why, they are trying to buy time until they have SOI and the clawhammer finished. The clawhammer will be amazing - supposedly. i have to go, my woman is comin - later

[nihili]

If AMD is already using .13 technology, why on earth wouldn't they be advertising it and using it as a selling feature?

nihili

[It_The_Cow]

.13 doesn't necessarily mean it's faster. It just means that it can be clocked faster. Maybe AMD may be secretly using .13 manufacturing without telling us, but it's just illogical to do so

[minoukat]

Will the Thoroughbred still be called Athlon, or another name ?