Athlon XP - Dead?

[Applecrusher]

Is the Athlon XP series of CPUS dead??

I havent herd anything about a new CPU for it.. umm... well ... since the release of the 3200+ and that was the first and ONLY 200 FSB cpu (unless you count all of the 2500+'s)

So am I correct in saying that the XP's life is over?

[GreenPiggy]

They won't be releasing any new numbers but they will be migrating to socket 939 at some point.
Whether this means they move to a single core production like thoroughbred/duron I don't know but will be interesting.

[Rave]

There is actually a 200fsb 3000+, it runs at 2.1GHz.

The K7 core will continue in production for some time, but it'll be renamed Sempron later this year. I don't know if they'll be Tbreds or Bartons though.

As far as I can see there's no easy way of making a K7 core work on a Socket 754 or 939 board, just as there's probably no easy way of making a hammer work on Socket A. So, it's not so hard to figure out that All Sempr0ns Will Not Be Alike.

Rich :¬)