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With Intel coming on pretty strong with its "Clovertown" Xeon 5300 processors and Advanced Micro Devices having to get to June or July before it gets its own quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron chips out the door, the company has to do something to make its Opterons appealing. To that end, AMD has pushed up the clock speeds on the dual-core Rev F Opterons to 3 GHz to compete better in the dual-core X64 chip space. According to Pat Patla, director of Opteron marketing at AMD, the new 3 GHz chip is a so-called Special Edition, or SE, part. This means that...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ scrutinised, compared INQUIRER Review of Reviews By Désiré Athow: Thursday 22 January 2004, 12:03 HERE'S THE FIRST in a special series of articles which compare the findings of different web site reviews of products to help make an informed technology buying decision by comparing different reviews on the World Wide Web. Official AMD web site Technical Information Online reviews read, analysed and condensed AMDMB Techreport Hardtecs4u AMD Zone Anandtech XbitLabs Clubic Hardware France Computerbase Hardware Norway Is this already the best chip of 2004? The AMD Athlon 64 3000+ will probably be remembered by many as...

Press Releases: AMD Dual Core Design Completed, Product For Mid 2005 Posted by: Chris Tom on Monday, June 14, 2004 - 02:28 PM Ninh ICQ'd over news of AMD announcing dual core product for mid 2005. Here is the press release. AMD Announces Technology Milestone with Its Multiple-Core StrategyMonday June 14, 4:15 pm ET First AMD64 Dual-Core Solutions Planned to Be Available in Mid-2005 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2004--Today AMD (NYSE:AMD - News) announced a technology milestone with the completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processors. AMD plans to deliver high-performance dual-core products to the x86 server market in...

Chip war ratches up several notches By Charlie Demerjian: Monday 19 January 2004, 12:45 OH HOW time flies. With people still gasping over A64 3400+ reviews, and Intel about to introduce the 3.4GHz models, some Prescott, some not, are we ready for the next round from AMD? Ready or not, they are coming at the end of March. Birds singing in our ears have told us that when the S939 boards are launched in about two months, they will be accompanied by A64 3700+ chips. If AMD keeps to the schedule, they will beat their own roadmaps, even if it...

Advanced Micro Devices has quietly trotted out a version of its Athlon 64 chip that provides a little less performance than earlier models but only costs about half as much. The new Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2GHz, the same as the existing Athlon 64 3200+, but it only comes with a 512KB secondary cache, according to an AMD spokesman. The 3200+ features a 1MB cache. A cache is a pool of memory integrated into the processor for rapid data access. In general, large caches lead to better performance. AMD, however, prices the Athlon 64 3000+ at $218 in quantities...