Single-core Athlons to be phased out

AMD has begun to phase out its single-core Athlon processor lineup andwill launch five new 45W Sempron processors in September to cover theentry-level single-core processor market, according to sources atmotherboard makers.
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In addition, AMD will launch Spica core CPUs with support for socketAM2+ and HyperTransport 3.0 for its single-core lineup in the firsthalf of 2008, while in the second half, the company will launch 45nmSargas core CPUs supporting socket AM3, added the sources.
AM3 will likely be the DDR3 edition.

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