AMD Athlon XP 2200+ on 0.13-Micron Thoroughbred Core

The guru's over at xbitlabs have put together an interesting article on AMD's Thoroughbred processor. Details include the differences between the Thoroughbred and Palomino cores, thermal limitations of the new Athlon XP processors, overclocking, and further AMD plans for the Athlon XP family of processors.

Here's a little snipit to wet the appetite...

"After about a year since the Intel Company started mass manufacturing of x86 processors using the 0.13-micron technology, the long-time Intel's rival, AMD, also finished the transition to the new technology. It should be mentioned that AMD managed to compete quite successfully with Intel without the most advanced technology for a long time. The progressive K7 architecture used in the Palomino based processors allowed Athlon XP to perform as fast as high-end Pentium 4 CPUs that work at higher clock-rates. But recently the situation has greatly changed. The Pentium 4 working frequencies have sprung up and AMD has been left in a kind of dead end with its 0.18-micron technology limiting the working frequencies of Palomino based processors to 1.73GHz."

Read the entire article here!