AMD Athlon 1.4GHz Released - tech
(hx) 07:33 PM CEST - Jun,06 2001
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AMD today announced the 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon(TM) processor, the world's most powerful PC processor for the performance market, and the 950MHz AMD Duron(TM) processor for everyday business and home computing. The 1.4GHz AMD Athlon processor-based systems with Double Data Rate (DDR) memory continue to outperform 1.7GHz Intel Pentium® 4 processor-based systems by up to 40 percent on a variety of benchmarks, including cutting-edge multimedia, desktop publishing, digital imaging and voice recognition applications. The AMD Duron processor provides a practical solution for everyday business and home PC needs by providing up to a 30-percent performance advantage over Intel Celeron processor-based systems.
The 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon processor, available with a 266MHz front-side bus (FSB) or a 200MHz FSB, is priced at $253 in 1,000-unit quantities. [more] |
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