AMD's New Chip Speeds Past Intel
News AMD on Monday launched the new Athlon XP 1900+, its highest performance desktop processor issued to date. The resulting megahertz boost over its 1.53GHz Athlon XP 1800+ is expected by many to push the chip's performance ahead of that of Intel's...
[November 6, 2001, 8:56]
AMD's Newest Chip Attempts To Raise The Bar
News AMD on Monday launched the new Athlon XP 1900+, its highest performance desktop processor issued to date. The resulting megahertz boost over its 1.53GHz Athlon XP 1800+ is expected by many to push the chip's performance ahead of that of Intel's...
[November 5, 2001, 15:53]
AMD Takes Aim At Notebook Market's Margins
News AMD on Tuesday opened the throttle on its Athlon XP-M processors for notebooks. The chipmaker launched three new models, including a new Athlon XP-M 2800+ processor for regular-size notebooks, its highest-performance notebook chip to date.
[June 17, 2003, 13:53]
AMD Narrows Gap With New Notebook Chips
News The Athlon XP 2000+ and 1900+ processors will be featured in consumer notebooks coming out from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu-Siemens and others, according to AMD. The Athlon XP 2000+ and 1900+ sell for, respectively, $345 and $239, in 1,000-unit...
[September 24, 2002, 7:24]
AMD Boasts Market Share Gains
News In October, the company renamed Athlon to Athlon XP, using the Athlon XP title, followed by a model number, such as 1900+, to reflect different versions of the chip. AMD said demand for Athlon XP chips, two of which are sold out for the quarter...
[December 13, 2001, 6:31]
AMD Cuts Prices On Athlon, Duron
News AMD cut prices on Friday for its Athlon XP and Duron processors for both desktop and notebook PCs. The chipmaker shaved up to 20 percent off prices for Athlon XP chips in an effort to make AMD-based PCs more attractive to buyers, a company...
[July 29, 2002, 10:12]
AMD Cuts Prices For Mobile And Server Chips
News Sunnyvale, California-based AMD lopped as much as 31 percent off its list prices for Athlon XP-M processors and reduced prices on a handful of Opteron server chips by as much as 35 percent. AMD lowered prices on Athlon XP-M processors by between 7...
[July 30, 2003, 8:55]
Pentium 4 Delay Gives AMD Top Spot
News Benchmark tests revealed this week that the 1.53GHz Athlon XP 1800+ beat the 2GHz Pentium 4 in many benchmark tests, though it loses in others. By speeding up the Athlon XP, though, the contest will more strongly tilt toward AMD's side.
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Intel, AMD To Trim Chip Prices
News Meanwhile, the $190 1700+ Athlon XP and the $160 1600+ Athlon XP will drop to an estimated $160 and $130, respectively. The 1500+ Athlon XP will also dip from $130 to $120. Several computer dealers, for instance, sell the 1800+ Athlon XP for...
[October 29, 2001, 8:43]
Dell's Pentium 4 Drought Ends
News Tim Wright, director of desktop marketing for AMD, confirmed that the chipmaker has sold out on two Athlon XP models, though not its fastest-available. AMD's fastest chip is its Athlon XP 1900+, at 1.6GHz.
[November 19, 2001, 10:50]
Intel, AMD Chop Chip Prices
News Prices for the remainder of AMD's chips -- including its Athlon XP 1500+, 1600+ and 1700+ models, Athlon MP and Athlon 4 mobile chips -- were kept the same. However, resellers last week reported at least some drop in Athlon XP prices, with street...
[October 30, 2001, 8:46]
AMD Unveils New Chips, Cuts Prices
News The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker said it has begun to ship its Athlon XP 2600+ and 2400+ processors to manufacturers. AMD's latest chip to this point, the Athlon XP 2200+, came out in June and could be bought the same day it was announced...
[August 21, 2002, 16:09]
AMD Cuts Prices To Match Intel
News The company is expected to introduce a new Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz desktop chip early next month, followed by a new mobile Athlon XP 1800+. The cuts range from 17 percent to 52 percent for mobile Athlon XP chips and between 11 percent and 32 percent...
[May 30, 2002, 16:21]
Intel, AMD Cut Chip Prices
News AMD's latest round of cuts, up to 19 percent for the Athlon XP 1600+, was more extensive than its last price reduction in October. AMD also extended its Athlon model-number nomenclature, introduced with the Athlon XP chip line last October, with a...
[January 29, 2002, 12:17]
AMD Hammers Out Plans For The Future
News AMD will kick off 2002 with the release of "Thoroughbred," a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the more-advanced 130-nanometer manufacturing process. The first quarter will mark the appearance of the first Athlon and Duron notebook chips...
[November 9, 2001, 13:37]
