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AMD has announced that the replacement for its ageing Duron range is going to be named the Sempron. The company says that it will start shipping the new range, aimed at the budget-conscious user, in the second half of this year.
Although AMD is keeping quiet about what the design and features of the Sempron are likely to be, it is almost certainly going to be a 32-bit processor. Reports suggest that it will be available in Socket A, Socket 754 and the recently announced Socket 939 versions with dual channel memory support. Finally, as is the fashion today, it is likely to support the NX (no execute) instruction to guard against buffer overflows and other software design flaws which can be exploited by virus authors.
Although AMD is keeping quiet about what the design and features of the Sempron are likely to be, it is almost certainly going to be a 32-bit processor. Reports suggest that it will be available in Socket A, Socket 754 and the recently announced Socket 939 versions with dual channel memory support. Finally, as is the fashion today, it is likely to support the NX (no execute) instruction to guard against buffer overflows and other software design flaws which can be exploited by virus authors.
I'm sure it's the only dual-AMD board with this limitation.
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