Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the availability of 1.1GHz AMD Athlon processor-based systems. More than 10 computer manufacturers worldwide, including Compaq, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, plan to offer PCs featuring the new Athlon.
The processor will compete with Intel`s 1GHz and 1.3GHz processor. The day before the release of the 1.1GHz Athlon processor, Intel dropped its prices on the Intel Celeron, Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon chips, as well as its mobile Pentium III processors.
Pentium III processor price decreases will range from 8% to 32%, while Intel Celeron processor price decreases will range from 26% to 34%. Price decreases for Pentium III Xeon processors will range from 17% to 22%, and mobile Pentium III processor decreases will range from 5% to 29%.
AMD says the 1.1GHz AMD Athlon processor offers up to 10% more performance than the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor on relevant industry standard benchmarks.
Industry support for AMD`s Socket A infrastructure also continues to grow. AMD has validated more than 10 motherboards that can support Socket A, and is working with over 40 vendors to develop motherboards supporting Socket A.
The AMD Athlon processor is a seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimised for high clock frequency; a fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; 256KB of on-chip level (L2) cache and 128KB of on-chip level (L1) cache; enhanced 3DNow! technology with 24 additional instructions designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP communications; and a 200MHz system interface based on the Alpha EV6 bus protocol with support for scalable multiprocessing.
AMD Athlon processors are manufactured using AMD`s 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas and Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany.
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