The democratization of l?Athlon 64, altogether relative, led the founder Advanced Micro Devices to relay l?Athlon XP with the row of processor d?entrée of range, and this before d?abandonner its development with the profit of new CPU supposed to replace it on this segment. These new come is Sempron, and far from representing an architecture with whole share, they appeared like a whole range of processors intended to come to compete with Celeron d?Intel. Available on socket A, 754, and soon 939, they n?ont does anything new good of it and are only of simple variations d?architectures existing, cut down by the blow by some functionalities and characteristics to justify their positionings and their prices. Thus, Sempron socket A n?est qu?un Athlon XP renamed Thoroughbred, and Sempron socket 754 Athlon 64 equipped d?un L2 mask with 256 KB, and deprived of its instructions 64-bit.
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