Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has confirmed that its processors will support double data rate (DDR) memory, in conjunction to its SDRAM support. The chip manufacturer has also announced the demise of the K6-2, K6-3, the Slot A Athlon, and all processors below 700MHz.
Raz Sobhani, AMD`s new Middle East and Africa sales manager, says AMD has supported DDR for the last week. The move appears to be in response to Intel`s support for its Rambus memory technology, which has been criticised as being too costly and having a high latency. Sobhani says DDR competes favourably with Rambus. Intel also supports DDR.
Sobhani also announced the end of the K-line of processors, leaving the company with the Athlon and Duron brands. He says the company has also stopped production on the 650MHz Duron, and will only produce processors from 700MHz up. He also confirmed that AMD plans to release a 1.3GHz processor by the end of the year.
AMD still plans to introduce its Lightning Data Transport (LDT) technology and its 64-bit processor in its next generation of chip. LDT will boost chip-to-chip interconnect speeds to 6.4GBps, by using a single large pipe and daisy-chaining devices off that pipe.
AMD plans to increase its current 20% market share to 30%, although Sobhani states: "Intel is the world`s number one processor supplier and will remain so for quite some time."
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