ADVANCED MICRO TO RELEASE FASTER CHIP.Advanced Micro Devices announced a new version of its flagship processor, saying that it runs faster than the latest chip from the Intel Corp. Advance Micro, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is rolling out an Athlon processor that runs at 850 megahertz One million cycles per second. See MHz. MegaHertz - (MHz) Millions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. . This measure, the clock speed, is only one factor of a processor's performance, but the new speed beats Intel's top offering, a Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). at 800 megahertz. The Pentium and Athlon chips are roughly equal in terms of performance at the same clock speed, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. benchmark tests. The measurements and results vary, however, and has been the subject of debates in the processor world. The two companies have been jousting jousting Medieval Western European mock battle between two horsemen who charged at each other with leveled lances in an attempt to unseat the other. It probably originated in France in the 11th century, superseding the mêlée, in which mock battles were held between for bragging rights since Advanced Micro Devices, historically a maker of budget processors, released the Athlon last summer. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Gateway, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard incorporate the Athlon in their PCs. The chip typically goes into high-end consumer and small-business systems, and is expected to show up in machines later this year. Recently, Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated a version of Athlon running at 1.1 gigahertz, or 1,100 megahertz, at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. |
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