Future Processors
The Athlon 64 has a projected lifetime of 4-5 years. Throughout its lifetime, the Athlon 64 will go through many changes. Here are some of the upcoming changes.
- Upcoming changes
- Socket 939; this will increase performance and lower the cost of building an Athlon FX system
- .09 micron manufacturing process; this results in less heat and higher scalibilty
- 300 diameter wafer production; this will lower production costs of the processor
Below are the future core codenames for future Athlon 64 processors until the second half of 2005.
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All Athlon 64's will switch to the .09?manufacturing process by the first half of 2005. This switch will be a huge leap for AMD as this new techonlogy will greatly benefit processor speed, heat dissapation, and cost.
AMD has decided to implement 64-bit technology in the Athlon XP line. These chips will use the same core as current Athlon 64's but will have the 64-bit mode disabled along with 256kb L2 Caches. These chips will be the budget line of Athlon's and will allow AMD to phase out the Socket A/462 without killing the Athlon XP name. The new Athlon XP's will be made to be used in Socket 754 applications and will be compatible with current Athlon 64 motherboards. Below are upcoming cores for the Athlon XP.
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