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AMD Thorton Core To Be Called AMD Athlon FX!
11:37 PM MYT | Posted by: Adrian Wong


Has anyone heard of the new AMD Athlon FX? No? That wouldn‘t be surprising since I have never heard of it until now!

Athlon FX is apparently going to be AMD‘s official name for the new Athlon XP Thorton core!

As you know, the Thorton core will be nothing more than a Barton core with half the L2 cache disabled. While the Barton is the successor of the Thoroughbred-B core, the Thorton looks set to be the new AMD Duron. However, since it‘s identical to the Barton (albeit with only half the L2 cache), it makes more sense for AMD to leverage the Thorton‘s similarity with the Athlon XP Barton core.

Using the Athlon name would enable AMD to market the Thorton core as a mid-end value processor, rather than a low-end processor that the Duron was. This would naturally translate into better selling prices for the processors and greater profits for AMD.

I‘ll try to confirm it with AMD and get more details so stay tuned!

No news from AMD yet... but I have confirmation from my source that the new processor will called the AMD Athlon FX!