[ale] Socket A Processors

[James Sumners]

If you consider having a slower bus speed and smaller L2 cache identical, sure.

On 3/31/06, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Keith Hopkins wrote:
>
> >>On the plus side: "From a hardware and user standpoint, the Socket-A
> >>Semprons were essentially renamed Athlon-XP desktop CPUs."
> >>(Wikipedia:Sempron)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Hate to disagree with the all-knowing-wikipedia, but the (sockets-A)
> >sempron is to the XP as the celeron is to the pentium.  More like a
> >duron replacement, except that the sempron family extends into the
> >64-bit world.
> >
> >--
> >Downunder, and a little to the left
> >  Keith
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> I think wikipedia is right on the technical specs and you are right on
> the marketing.  The sempron came out almost simultaneously with the 64
> bit athlons to replace the duron as the low end AMD.  But the
> specifications were identical to the XP  thoroughbred core.
>
> Calvin...
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