Re: Athlon's New CPU
From 2002 through 2005 you couldn't buy a better/faster CPU than an AMD. They really pushed the envelope through that period and if it wasn't for them lighting a fire under Intel we wouldn't be at the performance levels we are seeing right now.
AMD is also largely responsible for adding 64 bit instructions to the X86 base, which Intel fought for years, but due to market pressures they finally caved in and added the EMT64 tag to their Xeon line.
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