AMD drops older Athlon XPs

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SNEAKY LITTLE Chimpzilla has been playing the stage magician's game of distracting the eye of those watching the show. In this case, the show was the Opteron launch. It provided a neat distraction from AMD apparently dropping several of the older Athlon XPs. AMD's current price list usually makes fairly dull reading month to month. This processor has dropped in price by that percentage and so on. This time round the XP 1700+ and 1800+ are simply missing. The Athlon XPs now start with the 2100+ as the lowest processor in the series.

They aren't the only ones to disappear. Travel down to the Athlon XP-M Desktop Replacement (DTR) processors for notebooks and there are a couple missing too. The 1500+ and 1600+ are no more. Then there's the 1400+ and 1500+ Athlon XP-M mainstream notebook processors, they're gone too. The biggest surprise in this spring culling is that the Duron has survived intact. It seems that rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

News source: The Inq

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(1 reply) #1 Gideon Stargrave on 23 Apr 2003 - 19:05

a company cycling out older hardware!!!

no way!!!!!

#1.1 King Mustard on 23 Apr 2003 - 19:06

lol

#2 123_kid on 23 Apr 2003 - 19:08

"The Athlon XPs now start with the 2100+ as the lowest processor in the series." A quick look at AMD.com shows that the lowest processor in the series is actually the 2000+ at 66 dollars. [URL=http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html]AMD Processor Pricing[/URL]

(1 reply) #3 username on 23 Apr 2003 - 20:33

glad to hear the Duron is still around

#3.1 hardgiant on 23 Apr 2003 - 23:00

[neoquote=#3.0 by username]glad to hear the Duron is still around

[/neoquote] $66 is still quite cheap to build a medium powered computer. Edit: oops wrong button I wanted to reply to the one above you.

#4 Menace on 23 Apr 2003 - 20:34

lol. that was a good one

#5 m0 on 23 Apr 2003 - 22:32

damn, just bought a 1700+ the other day, lol

ah well m0.

#6 aem4162 on 24 Apr 2003 - 00:11

OH BOY!!!!! I was worried that my 1.4ghz athalon might still be supported...

#7 Darkness2k on 24 Apr 2003 - 14:53

My CPU's out of date :'(

#8 MikeS2k on 24 Apr 2003 - 23:08

Time to replace this duron 850 then

#9 Wozza on 25 Apr 2003 - 13:42

Who gives a rat's arse! I'm happy with my current AthlonXP. We're dealing with processor manufacturers not vehicle makers. We all know that with AMD the best support/FAQ is amongst ourselves. What do you expect. We get uncorked champange at beer prices. Consider yourself lucky ya can get a cheap CPU that works fast and well.

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