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AMD takes Intel head on in Celeron Sempr0n match
And as part of AMD's move to the "value" Socket A market, we understand that we'll see a Sempron model 2400+ while as we reported yesterday most of the Athlon XP 2500+ and below are for the junk yard.
The Intel Celeron chip is still doing pretty well, AMD acknowledges, so AMD will pitch its Sempr0ns head to head against Celeron.
The stuff it's shown the Taiwanese folk reveal that a Sempr0n at 2800+ creams a Celeron 2.8GHz chip.
Unfortunately, AMD hasn't gone and really whacked it to Intel by using the 320, 325, 330 and 335 numbers that Chipzilla is now using.
Instead it's positioning the Sempr0ns rather like the following chart we scribbled down on the back of a gag [surely fag? Ed.] packet.
| What they got? | Celeron D | Sempr0bably |
| Numbers ! | 320 (2.4GHz) | 2400+ (1.66GHz) |
| 325 (2.53GHz) | 2500+ (1.75GHz) | |
| 330 (2.66GHz) | 2600+ (1.83GHz) | |
| 335 (2.80GHz) | 2800+ (2GHz) | |
| 335+ | 3100+ (1.8GHz) | |
| L1 Cache | 28K | 128K |
| L2 Cache | 256K (inc) | 256K (ex) |
| Total Cash | 256K | 384K |
| Bus | 533MHz | 333MHz recurring |
You know how AMD came up with the word Sempr0n? It's telling people it comes from the Latin "semper", as in "always". As in "always" faithful, thinks AMD, means reliable, solid in tone, durable, steadfast, and "always there for me". Like a workhorse. Or a doormat?
We'd humbly suggest that AMD has not always been semper thesame with its model number scheme, which seems to change from time to time.
Oh, yes, you'll need a BIOS change for the Sempron in motherboards that support it.
How the heck do you tell a Sempr0n from any other socket A CPU? The answer is you can't because the CPUID won't give you a clue. You can also bung them into MP systems, if you were wondering. µ
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