AMD also plans to soon release another Athlon 64 FX chip for desktop PC enthusiasts. The Newcastle-based chips, which have recently become available in model numbers 2800+ and 3000+ and will soon ...

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 ...

The AMD Athlon 64 3400+: The Athlon 64 Gets Its First Speed Bump... By, Marco Chiappetta AMD closed out 2003 by quietly releasing the Athlon 64 3000+. The 3000+ was clocked at the same 2.0GHz as ...

On the performance front, sources familiar with AMD's plans said the Athlon 64 will run at higher-than-expected clock speeds, a measure that will help against Intel. That leaves the 64-bit angle.

the same as the existing Athlon 64 3200+, but it only comes with a 512KB secondary cache, according to an AMD spokesman. The 3200+ features a 1MB cache. A cache is a pool of memory integrated into ...

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 ...

The new AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 changes everything as AMD is now bringing multi-core processing to the FX line. Built on a 90nm SOI process, the Athlon 64 FX-60 features two 2.6GHz processors on a ...

Ready or not, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s (AMD) strategy to bring 64-bit technology to the x86 world took its biggest step Tuesday with the launch of the Athlon 64 processor for desktop and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...