Well we have heard a lot about this, today HEXUS got some exclusive shots of this new CPU. Basically it is a Barton but with 1/2 the L2 cache - 256 instead of 512KB we have not heard anything from AMD in regards to this CPU.

The Thorton is an AMD Athlon XP part it does not replace the AMD Duron.

There are three speed grades 2000+, 2200+ and 2400+ which only replace the Thoroughbred core parts of the same model number.

The reason for the product is that its still a volume part as customers are selling many systems with VIA KM266 chipsets and that it does not make sense to still make Thoroughbred part at that lower FSB of 266 MHz, so we just modified the Barton core, to the specification of the value end of the Thoroughbred core products.

So the parts have 256k cache and 266 MHz FSB.

The boards which are validated for it are over here, this is ideal as an upgrade CPU for your older boxes.

The new parts are:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (266 FSB) Model 10 w/ 256K Cache


資料來源: HEXUS