Replies to post #16953 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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why wouldn't AMD just continue making Athlon XPs?

Even if 64bit is removed instead of just disabled, Paris would still have mem controller (for socket 754 board compatibility) and SSE2 support--both would boost performance and garner higher PRs at equal clock.

I'm assuming that it will be socket 754, otherwise it would ditch the mem controller.

13nm bulk has hit its speed limit. The good news is that AMD has shrunk the k7 to 90nm SOI (and added a bunch of other stuff). It's called k8. Why would they do it again just to make a value chip that will just serve as an ASP placeholder? Better they should work on k9, sse3, low-power... The "New" AMD is going after the high-end, high asp markets. To protect those markets and appease mobo makers, they'll castrate some low cache chips, no big deal, this is not going to be the flagship big volume product.

As far as selling points go, I agree that 64bit will be a big one. It would be dumb not to make people pay for it by giving it for free in a Duron-equivalent.