AMD Athlon XP Processor Awarded Maximum PC's CPU of the Year Award; AMD's Flagship Processor Takes Honors for Third Consecutive Year.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2001 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) Maximum PC has chosen the AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor for its "CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. of the Year" award for 2001. This is the third consecutive year AMD's flagship desktop processor has won this influential award. Maximum PC announces its Gear of the Year awards annually in the December issue and posts the winners' names online. "For CPU of the year, we've selected an AMD Athlon family processor for the third year in a row," said Maximum PC Editor-in-Chief Jon Phillips. "We decided to give the Athlon XP A family of Pentium-compatible CPU chips from AMD introduced in 2001. Departing from the traditional MHz designation, Athlon XP chips use model numbers that combine clock speed and architectural features into a numerical rating. the award for offering excellent performance at a competitive price." "We are honored that the industry's leading computer enthusiast magazine has selected the AMD Athlon XP processor for this award," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing at AMD. "Advanced users and enthusiasts understand the true indicator of performance is how fast their applications run, not the clock speed of their processor. Winning this award reinforces the fact that the AMD Athlon XP processor is the performance champion for desktop PCs." AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Awards Around the World The AMD Athlon XP processor also recently received Joystick Magazine's "Top Hard" award in France. The AMD Athlon family of processors and systems based on these processors have received more than 100 awards worldwide. For a complete listing of AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon processor-based system awards, visit: http://www2.amd.com/us- en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_756_759^663,00.html About the AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor The AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor features QuantiSpeed(tm) architecture, 384KB of on-chip, full-speed cache and support for AMD's 3DNow!(tm) Professional instructions for enhanced multimedia capabilities. The AMD Athlon XP processor is compatible with AMD's Socket A The motherboard receptacle for Duron and newer Athlon CPU chips from AMD. It uses a 462-pin PGA package. See Slot A. infrastructure, and supports the advanced 266MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. front-side bus. AMD Athlon XP processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron copper process technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AMD had revenues of $4.6 billion in 2000. (NYSE:AMD). AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at http://www.amd.com/news/spotlight. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof, QuantiSpeed and 3DNow! are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Other product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. NOTE: Due to the length of the processor awards URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. above, it may be necessary to cut and paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. the hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. |
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