Originally, AMD's Palomino core was to have been a relatively minor update to its predecessor - the Thunderbird - that focussed on reducing power consumption and associated heat dissipation. However, in the event its release was slipped by … [Read more...]
AMD Duron
Ever since AMD's repositioning of its Socket 7 based K6-III processor for exclusive use in mobile PCs in the second half of 1999, Intel's Celeron range of processors had enjoyed a position of dominance in the low-cost market segment. In … [Read more...]
AMD Thunderbird
In mid-2000 AMD introduced an enhanced version of the Athlon processor, codenamed Thunderbird. Fabricated using AMD's 0.18-micron process technology, the new core replaced the K75 chip's 512KB of off-die Level 2 cache by 256KB of cache … [Read more...]
AMD 750 Chipset
The AMD 750 chipset consists of two physical devices: the AMD-751 system controller and the AMD-756 peripheral bus controller. The key features of the AMD-751 system controller are: Support for the AMD Athlon system bus interface, the first 200MHz system bus for x86 … [Read more...]
AMD Athlon
The launch of the Athlon processor, in the summer of 1999, represented a major coup for AMD. It allowed them to boast not only of having produced the first seventh-generation processor - there are enough radical architectural differences … [Read more...]
AMD K6-3
In February 1999 AMD announced that it had begun volume shipments of the 400MHz AMD K6-III processor, codenamed Sharptooth, and was sampling the 450MHz version to OEM customers. The key feature of this new processor was its innovative TriLevel … [Read more...]
AMD 3DNow
With the launch of K6-2, in May 1998, AMD stole something of a march on Intel, whose similar Katmai technology was not due for release until up to a year later, in the first half of 1999. By the end of March 1999 the installed base of … [Read more...]
AMD K6-2
The 9.3-million-transistor AMD K6-2 processor was manufactured on AMD's 0.25-micron, five-layer-metal process technology using local interconnect and shallow trench isolation at AMD's Fab 25 wafer fabrication facility in Austin, Texas. The … [Read more...]
AMD K6
For many years Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), like Cyrix, had made 286, 386 and 486 CPUs that were directly derived from Intel's designs. The K5 was the company's first independently created x86 processor, and one for which AMD had held high … [Read more...]