In 2001:

• March 20: Qualcomm announces the MSM6xxx family of system on chips with 2G and 3G support
• May 14: AMD announces the Athlon 4 family of high-performance mobile microprocessors
• June 4-8: Computex Taipei 2001 tradeshow
  • June 5: AMD announces their first multiprocessing platform, the Athlon MP family and the AMD-760MP chipset
• October 9: AMD announces the Athlon XP family of high-performance processors, a successor to Athlon
• September 3: HP announced they would merge with Compaq in a $25 billion merger
• October 15: Microprocessor Forum at San Jose, CA
  • AMD discloses their upcoming microarchitecture K8 "Hammer".
• December 3: AMD announced the world's fastest CMOS transistor at the time, a prototype CMOS transistor with a 15-nanometer gate length and an 0.8 operating voltage with a switching speed of 300 fs (0.3 ps).
• Unknown: Rapport was founded, a fabless semiconductor company that focused massively parallel chips.