AMD Athlon XP Processor Powers PC Magazine's Best of 2001 Desktop PC; Compaq's `Built For You' Presario 8000Z Wins Best of 2001 for Performance Desktop Computer.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2001 Features World's Highest Performing PC Processor 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) today announced that PC Magazine has awarded an AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor-based system, the Compaq Presario Presario is a series of desktop computers and notebooks from Compaq. The Presario family of computers was launched for the consumer marketplace in September 1993. Although HP has since acquired Compaq, the Presario name was not discontinued due to its marketability. 8000Z, the best PC desktop system for 2001. The award will be announced in PC Magazine's Best of 2001 issue (Jan. 15, 2002), on sale beginning Dec. 26. The Compaq Presario 8000Z, a powerful desktop that delivers outstanding performance and expandability to meet the needs of users seeking a powerful system to enjoy digital music, 3D gaming, digital imaging, video, and online shopping and buying, features the AMD 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. processor 1800+ and DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory (Double Data Rate) memory. This is the second time this year PC Magazine has honored this system. The Compaq Presario 8000Z won PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award, announced in its Dec. 11 issue. The Best of 2001 is a roundup of the best products and services as tested and selected by PC Magazine editors. This year's edition honors 53 award winners. 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. the online edition of the Best of 2001, PC Magazine editors write, "The Compaq Presario 8000z offers the creme de la creme crème de la crème n. 1. Something superlative. 2. People of the highest social level. [French : crème, cream + de, of + la, the + of computer hardware..." "This Best of 2001 recognition, coupled with the Editors' Choice honor PC Magazine awarded to the Compaq Presario 8000Z earlier this year, leaves no doubt about the superior application performance of the AMD Athlon XP processor," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "The award also validates the response from consumers, which has been phenomenal, as we've had robust demand for the AMD Athlon XP processor since the launch in October." AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Awards Around the World The AMD Athlon(tm) family of processors and systems based on these processors have received more than 100 awards worldwide. Please see www.amd.com/athlonawards for a complete listing of AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon processor-based system awards. 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 www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon, QuantiSpeed, 3DNow!, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Other product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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