In the summer of 2002 AMD began shipping its first desktop processor built using a 0.13-micron fabrication process. AMD expects the transition to the finer process technology - the Thoroughbred core is a minuscule 80mm2 compared to its predecessor's 128mm2 - to deliver improved performance, lower … [Read more...]
AMD Morgan
AMD's Duron family of processors have succeeded in winning the company a significant share in the value PC market segment since its appearance in mid-2000. Whilst it may not of always been able to beat Celeron-based systems from rival Intel … [Read more...]
AMD Palomino
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 3DNow! technology-enhanced PCs was estimated to have reached … [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...]