Previous
AMD's K6-2 Will Compete In The Budget PC Market
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) boosted its K6-2 processor lineup on Tuesday with the introduction of a 550MHz K6-2 chip. The processor accelerates the chip's clock speed over AMD's own 533MHz K6-2 chip as well as Intel's 533MHz Celeron.
[February 22, 2000, 16:45]
AMD Launches K6-III Today
News The AMD chip has a new three-level cache design, which integrates 256KB of Level 2 cache and includes an additional external 512KB of Level 3 cache, both of which increase performance. The chip will support up to 2MB of Level 3 cache.
[February 22, 1999, 11:51]
AMD Cuts Chip Prices
News AMD's K6-2 475MHz desktop chip received the largest cut, falling 25 percent from $152 (£93) to $114 (£69). The price of AMD's K6-2 400MHz chip was also cut by 11 percent, moving it from $82 to $73, company officials said on Friday.
[September 13, 1999, 9:08]
AMD Hungry For Notebook Market
News Taking a second stab at one of the industry's most lucrative markets, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.unveiled on Tuesday its low-power AMD-K6-2 line of processors for notebook computers. Previously, the chip giant had gone as low as 49 percent.
[January 13, 1999, 16:33]
US Report: Intel Is Lowering The Boom, And The Celeron, On AMD
News But with its revitalised Celeron chip, suddenly Intel is making it increasingly harder for AMD's retreat-and-conquer strategy to succeed. AMD unveiled Thursday a 350MHz version of its mainstream chip, the AMD K6-2.
[August 28, 1998, 16:32]
US Report: New AMD Chip Gives Intel A Run For Its Money
News AMD's K6-2 has 64KB of Level 1, or on-chip, cache, while the Pentium II has 32KB of Level 1 cache and 512KB of external, or Level 2, cache. The 350MHz K6-2 will be followed next quarter by a 400MHz version of the K6-2 and a chip, code-named...
[August 28, 1998, 9:08]
Comdex '99: Notebooks To Get More Juice
News The chip, a mobile version of the company's K6-2+ chip, will debut at 500MHz and higher. The Speedstep Technology from Intel, meanwhile, works by reducing the voltage of the chip, which in turn reduces its clock speed.Intel will introduce this...
[November 18, 1999, 9:33]
New AMD Mobile Chips Dust Intel
News They match and then outclock Intel's highest-speed mobile Pentium II chip by 33MHz and 50MHz, respectively. AMD says its new mobile AMD-K6-III-P 450MHz chip will cost $320 (£198), while the 433MHz will be $283 and the 400MHz chip $246.
[September 21, 1999, 9:35]
AMD Slashes Price On 800MHz Athlon
News Although price cuts are common in the chip business, Tuesday's move by AMD appears to speed up the price slashing as its competition with Intel heats up yet again. Intel reduced its chip prices Monday.
[March 1, 2000, 9:18]
Comdex: AMD Steps Up The Pressure
News Bolstered by a 128KB L1 cache and 256KB L2 on-chip cache, the 400MHz chip outperformed a 450MHz Pentium II based on the Winstone 98 benchmark in a show demonstration. If the chip matches early indications of performance it will mean AMD has a full...
[November 18, 1998, 22:50]
AMD's Duron Coming Next Week
News Sources had indicated the chip would be available last week. The new chip is eventually to replace the K6 line, although the two will coexist in the near term. Last week the chip maker said Duron had begun shipping to manufacturers in limited...
[June 16, 2000, 15:29]
AMD, Toshiba To Make Notebooks Cool, Part II
News Integrating cache increases performance and should give the chip an additional performance boost. The K6-III+ will also support tri-level cache, which allows the chip to use a third off-chip cache, if one is present.
[April 19, 2000, 8:42]
New Notebooks Save Power
News They include a High Performance Mode, where the chip runs at full clock speed and voltage; a Battery Saver mode, where the chip runs at reduced clock speed and voltage; and an Intermediate Mode, which a PC maker can specify using BIOS settings.
[March 17, 2000, 8:58]
AMD Goes For Intel With 'Spitfire'
News AMD is cooking up the new Spitfire processor, code-named after the sports car, with the aim of out-powering Intel's Celeron chip in the value-PC space -- generally defined as PCs costing less than $1,000 (£650)
[March 28, 2000, 7:32]
AMD Renews Cheap Chip Attack
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to renew its focus on the "value" PC market with next month's release of Duron, a repackaging of its core Athlon chip technology with a few tricks to make it cheaper to manufacture.
[May 22, 2000, 15:03]
Consumers Win Mobile Chip Race
News Besides the K6-2+P, AMD, which has discontinued the K6-III chip for desktop PCs, will continue K6-III for notebooks with a K6-III+P version. Transmeta has said it is sampling the Crusoe TM5400 chip and that it should be available in notebooks...
[February 4, 2000, 13:26]
News Burst: AMD Dumps K6-3D Moniker
News The chip will use the super7 architecture which has a bus speed of 100MHz and supports AGP. Highlighting the loss of the term 3D in the chip's name, Mainee was quick to point out that "the 3D technology in the K6-2 is called 3DNOW!
[May 1, 1998, 16:48]
Intel Debuts Higher-speed Celeron
News The chip, available now, offers PC users additional performance at little extra cost. The new chip is an extension of Intel's current Celeron processor line, meaning it is manufactured using Intel's 0.25 micron process and features 128KB of...
[January 5, 2000, 9:32]
AMD Expanding Athlon Chip Family
News The company on Monday will make public plans for a family of several new Athlon brand names, including a high-performance desktop brand and enterprise and consumer Athlon versions, sources close to the Sunnyvale, California, chip maker confirmed...
[August 4, 1999, 9:34]
A Year Ago: Consumers Win Mobile Chip Race
News It also means that instead of being confronted by a shelf-full of Intel-powered notebooks, soon consumers will have a trifecta of mobile-chip manufacturers to choose from -- including AMD's forthcoming K6-2+P notebook chip, Transmeta's Crusoe...
[February 4, 2001, 6:03]
