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The Athlon 64 has been around since [date] and was the first processor with 64-bit instructions to hit the consumer market. It's still around, and it's now available for Socket AM2 motherboards. AMD has released the 3800+, the 3500+ (in two different

When AMD brought out its dual-core version of the Athlon 64 in June 2005, it dominated Intel's equivalent offerings of the time, the dual-core Pentium D and the single-core Pentium 4 CPUs . To this day, the Athlon 64 X2 uses the same K8 microarchitec

Dual Core? With Intel's recent release of its dual core processor the race is on for share of this new market. Let's first take a good look at just what dual core is and what it brings to the computing experience. Dual core is by definition a

AMD may be regarded as the second largest CPU manufacturer in the world, but in the race to produce the first 64bit desktop processor, the Texas based CPU giant has taken first place. In fact the Athlon 64 is not even AMD’s first 64bit CPU . The Opte

We all owe something to AMD, regardless of what processor you use in your system now, chances are that your buying decision was somehow influenced by AMD. Intel advocates enjoyed the benefits of more competitive pricing and accelerated processor rele