is this info accurate?-Athlon & Turion

Hello. I read a review of a compaq laptop with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 TK-53...
i always thought that the Athlon mobiles were simply the desktop athlon x2 that was put onto a laptop motherboard but wikipedia states that the TK-53 was released last month, this year. on august 2007.... is that right??? i remember seeing this processor before on laptops...

shouldnt the athlon have more cache if its a more recent model?
then again, wasnt the Turion designed specifically for mobile use?



which CPU was created and used first???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Turion_microprocessors

 

The TL series is the dual core Turion in May '06.

Then after that the MK series was released as a single core budget cpu. Then after that, the TK series was released as a dual core budget cpu. Thus that is what it is: a budget dual core mobile AMD cpu.

 

It is basically a TL w/half the cache. I believe it steps down to 900Mhz not 800Mhz that is why TK not TL.

Edit: It has been listed as a Turion on some PC's in the past.

 

The TK-53 is a little bit faster than the TL-52 and a bit slower than the TL-56, and supposedly an tiny little less power efficient.