Back in June, AMD launched its Athlon 64 FX-53 and Athlon 64 3800+ processors, and Intel officially took the wraps off of its LGA775 platform and the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560, along with a few lower ...

One area where Intel did have a marked advantage over AMD, however, was price. The Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and Athlon 64 X2 4800+ were priced similarly at over $1000 a piece, but Intel's ...

Although basic math would appear to be on AMD's side, the company faces several challenges in launching its new Athlon 64 family, which has been years in the making. One of the big challenges is ...

AMD is to delay the launch of its next-generation desktop processor, the Athlon 64, until September, the company said on Friday. It also announced the official launch date of the server version of ...

Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new flagship processor, the Athlon 64 FX-60. At the time, we speculated it would easily become the fastest desktop CPU money could buy, and we've ...

Ten years ago this week, AMD launched the first consumer x86 64-bit processors, the Athlon 64 FX-51 and Athlon 64 3200+. It remains one of the most exciting products that I ever covered -- the ...

Processor manufacturer AMD today announced the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual-core processor. The Athlon 64 FX-60 takes over for the single-core Athlon 64 FX-57 as the flagship processor in AMD's ...

Providing high-end PC performance on 3D games and intense applications, the AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor allows power-hungry users to experience the next generation of single-threaded games with ...

Fred Weber, the chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices and one of the executives often cited as being behind the company's turnaround, is leaving to invest in start-ups. Meanwhile ...

HKEPC has got its hands on the brand new, upcoming AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition CPU and given it a thorough trashing through a wide range of benchmarks. They've also compared it against ...

Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title ...

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price. In fact ...