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To: milo_morai who wrote (33416)	3/25/2001 5:04:23 PM
From: dhellman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

xbitlabs:Once More About Palomino Another spin of Palomino delayed on strength of the latest T-Bird Core xbitlabs.com [5:52 pm] Gavric Again, we turn to the new processor core Palomino, which is to be used in the prospective AMD Athlon CPUs. This topic has provoked great interest among users, and happily enough, CeBIT provides us with all the necessary information. Well, the most important fact related by AMD is that it’s not for manufacturing troubles that Palomino was delayed. AMD merely thinks that it makes no sense introducing this core right now. And the company’s officials seem to be right. As the technology was getting more and more advanced, it became possible to manufacture Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.33GHz at a mass scale, while formerly Thunderbird had been declared to have its ceiling at 1.2GHz. To date, AMD admits launching Athlon with the old Thunderbird core working at 1.4GHz. Such CPU may be announced anytime within the second quarter if AMD confronts strong competition with the not yet launched Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz. However, according to preliminary tests, there will be no need to do so: Athlon 1.33GHz outraces Pentium 4 1.7GHz in most tests. As for Palomino, processors built on this 0.18-micron core will be announced as follows: Mobile Palomino – in March Server Palomino – in April Desktop Palomino – in July We want to stress that all the three CPUs are based on the same core, although they are designed for different purposes and diverge quite tangibly. The mobile Palomino will be incompatible with mainboards for desktop PCs. Instead, it will support PowerNow! 2.0 technology. Unlike the previous version, this technology envisages more flexible adjustment of the clock speed in work and a shorter time span between the skips (less than 200ms). The first mobile Palominos will be clocked at approximately 1GHz. Meanwhile, in spite of a more elaborated core, heat dissipation is to be not so great as that of similar mobile Pentium III CPUs. The matter is that Palominos will perform at 1.4V. Palomino for servers will most probably boast an enlarged L2 cache. Besides, server Athlon is able to work at the same mainboards as desktop Athlon CPUs, though for these processors AMD develops a special chipset supporting dual-processor configurations, AMD 760MP. It should be mentioned that the frequencies of server Palomino will be a little bit lower than those of the desktop version. Most likely, these processors will be clocked at 900-1200MHz at launch. As far as the architecture is concerned, the major peculiarity of Palomino (in comparison to Thunderbird) is lower heat dissipation. Thanks to this feature combined with the 0.18-micron technology, AMD hopes to reach the point of 2GHz. It is still a secret whether Palomino’s developers will introduce any performance-boosting changes. Speaking about Morgan - a CPU core which AMD is going to use in its new processors intended for value computers, it will be indeed a regular Palomino with a smaller L2 cache. That’s why the release date and the characteristics of different Morgan cores (mobile and desktop version) coincide with those of Palomino. Here you may find new photos of processors and systems based on Palomino CPUs: Palomino 900MHz (server version) System with Palomino 900MHz built on AMD 760MP core logic The North Bridge of AMD 760MP, AMD-762