Randy, re: "Intel?
Good time to buy?
No posts since last night at 9:00PM??"
Well, there was a bunch of excitement in AMDroid-land that a new Compaq notebook computer might have a 0.13 (Thoroughbred) chip in it, and that it had 512KB of on-chip L2 cache. Looking like it's false, a Compaq screwup on their website product description. AMD apparently confirmed that it's not a new chip, and doesn't have a bigger cache.
Steve:
Well, I just got confirmation on the link I posted about the Thoroughbred laptop earlier, and one of our friends at AMD got back with me about the link to the Compaq laptop we posted, and this is what they had to say:
I saw the short article and link you posted about a possible Thoroughbred laptop being sold by Compaq. I can assure you that this is not a Thoroughbred based computer, merely a typo error on Compaq's part. Currently the only Athlon 4 processors available come with 256kb of L2 cache. This will remain so even when the Thoroughbred mobile processors do come out. I don't know if you are familiar with AMD's ordering part number system (OPN), but here is the OPN for the Athlon 4 1600+ AHM1600AQQ3B The last 3 in the OPN stands for the L2 cache size = 256kb. All of this is publicly available information on the AMD website. Just look for the Athlon Model 6 Data Sheet.
In addition, there are other reasons why this could not be a Thoroughbred based computer, but I cannot comment on those at this time. I hope this helps clear things up.
I noticed a few places out there even "confirming" the rumor to be true because they had spoken with a Compaq sales person or some such, but this confirms that there isn't a TBred laptop out.... ( yet ) right from the horses mouth.
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