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AMD Palomino Notebooks Running Late
News The belated release comes not because of flaws with Palomino but because of a lack of notebook-specific chipsets, motherboards and other components. Notebooks that run on Palomino -- a version of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon processor that...
[March 15, 2001, 7:59]
AMD Races First 'Thoroughbred' Chip To Laptop Market
News Thoroughbred, which shrinks the previous "Palomino" core from 0.18-micron to 0.13-micron geometry, is expected to arrive in desktop processors next month. The 2100+ chip is likely to be the last Palomino-based Athlon XP, with Thoroughbred likely to...
[April 17, 2002, 10:48]
Athlon 4 And MP To Get XP Speed Features
News Several of the features in Quantispeed, such as the nine-issue fully pipelined susperscalar micro architecture, which lets the chip process nine instructions per clock cycle, are already built into the Palomino core, which the Athlon 4 and Athlon...
[October 10, 2001, 11:30]
AMD Lines Up Backers For Mobile Chip
News The chip, originally due in the fourth quarter of 2000, is code-named Palomino and will mark the debut of Athlon in the notebook market. The Palomino Athlons consume less power than the current desktop Athlons, which are notoriously power-hungry.
[January 26, 2001, 8:44]
AMD Revs Up Athlon 4 And Duron Chips
News Morgan is essentially a lower-cost version of the Athlon 4's core -- called the Palomino -- with PowerNow power management added along with a prefetch level 2 cache. The Palomino/Morgan prefetch feature allows the cache to recognize patterns and...
[August 21, 2001, 9:09]
AMD Faces Tough Fight With Dual Athlons
News The new Athlon MP is based on a new processor core code-named Palomino, on which all of AMD's multi-processor products will be built. But a Palomino-based Duron is on the way in the second half of this year, AMD said.
[June 6, 2001, 8:52]
AMD Puts Dresden Plant In Spotlight
News As early as September, AMD will introduce a desktop version of Palomino, which has already launched for laptops under the Athlon 4 brand name. Palomino will be delivered as 'Athlon something'. It should launch at around the same time as Palomino...
[August 1, 2001, 17:04]
AMD Beats Targets But Sees Slowdown
News AMD last month announced delays for desktop versions of chips based on Palomino and the low-cost Morgan design. The company intends to introduce chips based on its new design, called Palomino, in May.
[April 19, 2001, 15:50]
AMD Prepares Chip Onslaught On Intel
News Those PC makers, the AMD officials said, would prefer to use Palomino, which offers higher clock speeds and more reasonable cache-sizes and pricing. Palomino coupled with the 760MP chip set a solution that meets [PC maker's] needs for one and two...
[November 14, 2000, 9:03]
AMD Unveils 1.33GHz Athlon, Delays Others
News The chipmaker also plans to introduce a Palomino chip for single-processor and dual-processor workstations and servers in the second quarter. The Mustang chip was based on the same core design as Palomino and Morgan.
[March 22, 2001, 7:32]
AMD Chief Plans To Take On Corporate Market
News Athlons follow-up, the then codenamed "Palomino" will soon be ready to roll out but under the Athlon brand name, explains Polster. Palomino will be introduced as the 'Athlon something'. Despite the general trend, AMD has been growing as a company...
[March 26, 2001, 13:11]
AMD Squeezes Athlon 4 Into Notebooks
News Athlon 4, formerly code-named Palomino, consumes far less power than the desktop version, among other improvements. AMD has officially launched its flagship Athlon and Duron processors for laptop computers.
[May 14, 2001, 9:26]
AMD Boosts Duron
News Formerly code-named Palomino (and "Corvette" before that), the Athlon XP will be AMD's challenger to the Pentium 4. Advanced Micro Devices will begin October by releasing a series of processors for desktop PCs.
[October 1, 2001, 11:26]
News Roundup: Computex Takes Over Taiwan
News Wednesday, 6 June AMD's launches its first chipset able to handle dual Athlon processors, but the Palomino-based Duron could be the real winner The Computex trade show in Taiwan has played host to controversies around the latest chips from Intel...
[June 11, 2001, 11:33]
AMD Dubs New Chip Athlon 4
News Code-named Palomino, the Athlon 4 will contain a number of improvements. Forget the Athlon 2 or 3. Advanced Micro Devices is going to call its next chip the Athlon 4. As part of its ongoing rivalry with Intel, AMD will call its new chip, coming out...
[May 10, 2001, 8:12]
Intel, Aberdeen Attack AMD Speed Ratings
News AMD says officially that its model numbers reflect differences in performance between its current Athlon XP processors, based on the "Palomino" core, and the earlier Athlon chips. Intel has launched a new broadside against AMD's policy of...
[March 27, 2002, 15:11]
AMD Readies Revved-up Chips
News This core, known by the code name Palomino, will also give rise to new desktop Athlon chips running at 1.5GHz and above, scheduled for introduction in the third quarter of this year. AMD will rev up Athlon again with the introduction of its fastest...
[June 4, 2001, 9:29]
2001: Ups And Downs On The Way For Chips
News AMD intends to barge its way into the corporate market with the AMD 760 chipset and Palomino processor core. As 2000 draws to a close, the course for the chip business over the next 12 months looks more uncertain than ever.
[December 30, 2000, 6:12]
Intel Debuts New Mobile Chips
News The Athlon-based chip, formerly codenamed Corvette and now codenamed Palomino, is expected to run faster than 800MHz. Intel Monday announced several new mobile chips using SpeedStep technology for lower power.
[September 25, 2000, 12:55]
Chips In 2001: Intel Gets Obsessed, AMD Goes Corporate
News The corporate platform will be based around the new AMD 760 chip set and forthcoming processor core, codenamed Palomino, due to arrive at 1.33GHz in the first quarter, according to AMD. It will follow in the same quarter with newly designed Athlons...
[December 21, 2000, 8:23]
