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Until now Advanced Micro Devices was not planning to release any new single-core Athlon processors, however, recently the company quietly started to ship its new Athlon LE chips for entry-level systems with only one processing engines. The new AMD Athlon LE processors 1000-series will offer considerably higher performance due to higher clock-speed compared to AMD Sempron LE 1000-series chips, however, the new central processing units will still be considerably less speedy than dual-core offerings. Initially the fresh family will contain two solutions:

• Athlon LE-1620 (ADH1620IAA5DH): 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 cache, Socket AM2, TDP=45W
• Athlon LE-1600 (ADH1600IAA5DH): 2.2GHz, 1MB L2 cache, Socket AM2, TDP=45W

On-line stores are already accepting pre-orders for Athlon LE-1620 at about $60-$70. Athlon LE-1600 should be priced a little less than that.

Izvor: X-Bit Labs