Advanced Micro Devices uses Soitec wafers for its Opteron computer server chips and Athlon 64 PCchips.
GHz Athlon processor has blown the Pentium III away, beating it on both price and performance.
The fastest of the bunch is an Athlon XP chip with a clock speed of 1.53 GHz.
The highest-profile result was the release this yearof AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
Reporting on a disappointing year at Athlon, DiSilvestro said, We tried our best.
His Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. is the nations largest publisher of sports annuals.
The highest-profile result was the release this year of AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
The local Gateway people were kind enough to supply me with their Select 1000 desktop machine, powered by AMD's Athlon chip.
Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, launched a new chip design of its own earlier this year in a processor called Athlon.
Weighing in at just 3.2 pounds, Wind U210 is MSI's first notebook to feature the AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 1.6 GHz processor.
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Barrett , Intel's former CEO and current chairman, threatened Acer Chairman Stan Shih with "severe consequences" for using AMD's Athlon 64 server chip.
In recent weeks, systems like the Sys Performance 700A and the CyberMax Enthusiast A700W, which sport AMD's 700-MHz Athlon processor, impressed us with their performance.
The MD Series platform will offer processor technology from both Intel and AMD, including Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2 and AMD Turion X2 processors.
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Duron is AMD's first processor for budget PCs that takes advantage of an advanced chip design, or "microarchitecture, " that was unveiled last year for its higher-performance Athlon processor.
The ZX4300 line sees the addition of AMD Athlon II X2 processors and other powerful desktop components, making it one of the best performing all-in-ones in its price range.
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Roger DiSilvestro is the chief executive of Athlon Sports Communications, which every year sells 1.1 million copies of such once-a-year sports books as Southeastern Conference Preview and National College Preview.
That's what chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) is saying about its latest line of desktop PC processor chips, the Athlon XP.
The new chipset integrates NVIDIA's nForce 680a SLI chipset with AMD's fresh Athlon 64 FX-70 dual-core processors to great effect, with clock speeds hitting 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0GHz for the FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 processors.
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The ZX4300-01e includes an AMD Athlon II X2 235e processor, 640GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive and ATI Radeon HD 4270 graphics, and possesses enough horsepower to rival most mainstream desktops, and look better while doing it.
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Working in the Evo's favor is the fact that it's really nothing more than a Linux-based computer that relies entirely on off the shelf parts like an overclocked Athlon 64x2 5600 processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics.
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Its more practical counterpart, the Pavilion Desktop PC a1630 with HD DVD prefers the AMD action, with a 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, a nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE video chipset, up to 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a front-panel 9-in-1 memory card reader.
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The J PC runs a Core 2 Duo or Athlon 64 FX, Windows Vista Ultimate, 8GB of DRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB of RAM, 2TB of 7, 200 SATA storage, Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and plenty more trimmings like a 7-inch built-in screen, TV tuner and 7.1-channel sound.
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Don't get us wrong, the 5103 still feels like a netbook, but toggling between windows and opening programs felt snappier than our Atom N450-packing Toshiba Mini NB305, though not as fast as the dual-core Atom D525-powered Eee PC 1215N or the AMD Athlon II Neo K325-powered Dell Inspiron M101z.
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