Info su Palomino e Morgan

- Thunderbird core, which is currently used in all AMD CPUs will reach the frequency of 1.5GHz. So, it means that there will be two more processor models announced: 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz..

- Palomino, which will debut at 1.533GHz in Q3 2001, will really have some new architectural enhancements. It will support enhanced branch-prediction unit and hardware-prefetching. As for the rumors about a longer pipeline, they got no confirmation so far. Therefore, Palomino will be slightly faster than Thunderbird working at the given frequencies.

- Morgan, a new Duron CPUs core, will differ from Palomino not only by a smaller L2 cache. Unlike Palomino, which will be produced in Dresden with the copper interconnect technology, all Morgan processors will be made in Austin, where aluminum interconnect technology is used.

- AMD isn’t planning to change the physical interface of their CPUs, and Socket A will remain acute within the next 2-3 years. The CPUs with the Palomino core will work in Socket A mainboards, which support 266MHz EV6 bus.

- The 64bit processor family aka Hammer will be based on the good old K7 architecture with 64bit registers and an extra instruction set for work with these registers. Besides, there will be some specific server functions added.