AMD : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

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AMD
a competitor to Intel that makes compatible CPUs. Some may soon be sold under the IBM brand name. Circa 2001 there were two lines of AMD CPU: the low end Duron and the high end Athlon (aka K7, aka Thunderbird). In 2006 there are the low end Semprons and high end Athlons and Opterons. According to an article in the Computer Paper, 2001-03, page 66, an Athlon 1.2 Gig processor whips the Intel Pentium P4 1.4 Gig CPU. To add insult to injury it costs half as much and uses DDR memory that costs 1/3 that of the Pentium 4’s RDRAM. Intel claims it will regain the lead in the fall of 2006. Athlon CPUs circa 2005 have a 64-bit addressing mode which has massively outsold the Intel Itanium. There are both Linux and Windows OSes to support it. Most software of course still runs in 32-bit mode. There have been very few 64-bit OS sales. Java supports the 64-bit mode.
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