represents a potential bright spot for the company, after a year of difficulty brought on by the sluggish PC market and excess inventories in 2002. The Barton core gives the 3000+ a larger 512KB cache ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today rolls out its highest performing desktop processor, the Athlon XP 3000+, a 32-bit MPU based on AMD’s Barton core that the company claims outdoes some Intel Corp.’s ...

It's hard to believe that it has been three years since the introduction of the first AMD Athlons. To celebrate the occasion, AMD has unveiled two new processors in their Athlon XP lineup, the 2600+ ...

Although AMD's new Athlon XP processors will hit the stage Tuesday, the real showstopper will be if the company can get the public to forget about megahertz at the same time. As previously reported, ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has begun shipping two new versions of its Athlon XP processor and says machines based on the chips can be expected next month. The new Athlon XP chips have performance ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has been claiming for some time that there is more to performance than clock speed in its battle with chip giant Intel Corp., and now the company is ready to bet on ...

AMD will introduce its newest desktop PC processor, the 1.8GHz Athlon XP 2200+, next Monday, sources say. The new chip, AMD's highest-performance desktop chip to date, gains nearly 70MHz over its ...

The movements in the CPU front over the past few years have been very substantial. AMD have switched from being behind Intel in core development and speed to overtaking them. Let's cast our minds back ...

update Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday added a new Thoroughbred to its stable of PC processors. The chipmaker launched its line of new Mobile Athlon XP processors, a new generation of ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here today announced a new microprocessor–which is said to be faster than competitive chips from rival Intel Corp. The new chip, dubbed the Athlon XP ...

Hardware developer AMD has taken the wraps off its Athlon XP 2600+ and 2400+ processors, which feature AMD's QuantiSpeed architecture. "As the performance leader, the AMD Athlon XP processor 2600+ ...

Lastly, we took some Quake 3 Arena v1.32 Timedemo (Demo Four) scores at a resolution of 640x480x16, with the texture quality and geometric detail sliders at their lowest settings. Running Quake 3 with ...