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Athlon - AMD
| AMD Athlon | |
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| AMD Athlon logo | |
| Developer | AMD |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Type | Microprocessors |
| Introduction | June 23, 1999 (announced) August, 1999 (launch) |
| Production | 1999-2004 |
| ISA | x86 |
| Word size | 32 bit 4 octets
8 nibbles |
| Process | 250 nm 0.25 μm , 180 nm2.5e-4 mm 0.18 μm
1.8e-4 mm |
| Technology | CMOS |
| Clock | 500 MHz-1400 MHz |
| Socket | Slot A, Socket A |
Athlon is was family of high-performance 64-bit microprocessors developed by AMD based on AMD's K7 microarchitecture. Athlon was introduce on June 23, 1999.
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Packaging
Early Athlon microprocessors were packaged with a separate L2$ into a single cartridge. The cartridge connected into AMD's Slot A (similar to Intel's Slot 1). Those processors included Argon, Pluto, and Orion-core based processors. Later microprocessors (starting with Thunderbird core-based) introduced on-die L2$ simplifying the packing complexity, allowing it to use a standard PGA (Socket A).
Members
Athlon had 4 iterations of cores: Argon, Pluto, Orion, Thunderbird.
Argon core
Pluto core
Orion core
Thunderbird core
Architecture
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Facts about "Athlon - AMD"
| designer | AMD + |
| first announced | June 23, 1999 + |
| first launched | August 1999 + |
| full page name | amd/athlon + |
| instance of | microprocessor family + |
| instruction set architecture | x86 + |
| main designer | AMD + |
| manufacturer | AMD + |
| name | AMD Athlon + |
| process | 250 nm (0.25 μm, 2.5e-4 mm) + and 180 nm (0.18 μm, 1.8e-4 mm) + |
| socket | Slot A + and Socket A + |
| technology | CMOS + |
| word size | 32 bit (4 octets, 8 nibbles) + |
