Hmmm... Something from JC:
jc-news.com
According to this article, Thunderbird will initially top out at 850MHz (unsure whether this means for Asia only, or for the Slot version only, or what).
Mmmm ... 950MHz is the middle of the Athlon's frequency spread.
Thunderbird's L2 cache is exclusive.
Its multiplier is "laser fused" -- aka, locked. Translation from Alfred: "The author has asked the AMD's engineer, the engineer said that the multiply clock of Duron and Thunderbird has been locked by laser ... while testing the CPU in the factory. Users are not able to overclock the CPU by a GFD like what we did before, but it should be overclock by the bus speed setting theoretically".
There will be a 266/133MHz bus version of the Tbird
The four circles near the corners of the Tbird in the photo are for "additional support for even larger heatsinks".
Spitfire will start out at 600, 650, and 700MHz, with a 750MHz by the year's end (eg, in H2).
Tbird to launch in June, at Computex. Spitfire listed here as launching the end of June.
AGP Fast Writes were not enabled in the Duron tests (eg, expect higher scores, I guess, when Duron is tested with Fast Write capable boards)
Duron's die is under 110sqmm
And a comment from Kim Noer: "did you notice that the Duron eats 24.3W of power @ 650 MHz where the t-bird eats 38.1 @ 650 MHz The cache different can't explain it ( I base this on Intel specs that say the L2 ondie cache eats about 0.2W)". idiot noted in response, though, that the difference in operating voltage could make up for that, so nyeeaah!.
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