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-Advanced Micro Devices; makers of the
[32bit
] [Athlon], Thunderbird, Duron etc product lines, and the [64bit] Athlons and Opterons (see [amd64]). All these chips are [x86] compatible
.
+An
[Acronym
] for __A__dvanced __M__icro __D__evices
.
-See
[http://www.amd.com/]
+[AMD |
http://www.amd.com/] are one of the big player companies in the computer hardware business and the only serious [Intel] competitor left in the [ia32] [CPU] market. They have also designed an [64bit] extension to [ia32] called [amd64]. While their [CPU]s are the prestigious part of [AMD]'s business, their actual moneymaker is flash memory chips, a market which they rule.
-Their CPUs
are in general faster than the
Intel equivalent at
the same clock speed; they have taken
to the horrible trend of
labelling their CPUs
with a
'performance rating'; ie
an Athlon XP 1800+ runs at 1533Mhz.
+Their [ia32] chips
are called [Athlon] and Duron. Because [
Intel] was thumping "true Megahertz" as a measure of
the chip's performance, [AMD] took
to labelling these chips
with the clockspeed of the [Pentium] they
're roughly as fast as. This is known as "Quantispeed" means that, f.ex,
an Athlon XP 1800+ actually
runs at 1533Mhz.
+
+[AMD]'s [amd64] chips are called Opteron and Athlon64. The [amd64] spec has since been adopted by [Intel] for use in their desktop [64bit] [CPU]s
.
