AMD has continued using the Athlon name with the Athlon 64, an eighth-generation processor featuring x86-64 ( later renamed AMD64 ) architecture, and the Athlon II.

This later race to 1Ghz ( 1000 MHz ) by AMD and Intel further exacerbated this bottleneck as ever higher speed processors demonstrated decreasing gains in overall performance-stagnant SDRAM cache memory speeds choked further improvements in overall speed.

( AMD and Harris later pushed the architecture to speeds as high as 20 MHz and 25 MHz, respectively.

The original DEC StrongARM team eventually split into two MIPS-based start-ups: SiByte which produced the SB-1250, one of the first high-performance MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip ( SOC ); while Alchemy Semiconductor ( later acquired by AMD ) produced the Au-1000 SoC for low-power applications.

AMD licensed the SSE3 instruction set and implemented most of the SSE3 instructions for its revision E and later Athlon 64 processors.

AMD developed AMD64, the first major extension not created by Intel, which Intel later adopted.

For this and later releases the SSE-optimized build uses SSE2 and requires a Pentium 4 or later, or AMD Athlon 64 or later.

The later generation is based on AMD chips and runs with 5V for erasure.

However, the chips were later to market than AMD's 486s and benchmarked slightly slower than AMD and Intel counterparts, which relegated them to the budget and upgrade market.

Because the 5x86 was the equal of a Pentium 75 MHz processor in benchmarks, AMD later marketed the chip as " Am5x86-PR75 ".

AMD CPUs are unlocked in early editions of a model and locked in later editions, but nearly all Intel CPUs are locked and recent models are very resistant to unlocking to prevent overclocking by users.

It is also available on other processors with similar or more advanced versions of the same architecture, such as the AMD Athlon and later AMD processor models.

This was one of the main design features of the original Berkeley RISC design, which would later be commercialized as the SPARC, AMD 29000, and Intel i960.

There was no ' Executable ' flag in the page table entry ( page descriptor ) in the 80386 and later x86 processors, until, to make this capability available to operating systems using the flat memory model, AMD added a " not executable " or NX bit to the page table entry in its AMD64 architecture, providing a mechanism that can control execution per page rather than per whole segment.

* Hardware Supported Processors: x86-64 ( AMD64 and Intel 64 ), IA-64, Efficeon, Pentium M ( later revisions ), AMD Sempron ( later revisions )

The first Aptiva models were based on the Intel 80486 CPU with later models using the Pentium and AMD CPUs.

In the mid 2000s, both Intel and AMD added hardware support to their processors making virtualization software simpler, and later hardware changes provided substantial speed improvements.

Revision D and later 64-bit AMD processors ( as a rule of thumb, those manufactured in 90 nm or less ) added basic support for segmentation in long mode, making it possible to run 64-bit guests in 64-bit hosts via binary translation.

AMD developed its first generation virtualization extensions under the code name " Pacifica ", and initially published them as AMD Secure Virtual Machine ( SVM ), but later marketed them under the trademark AMD Virtualization, abbreviated AMD-V.

With the demise of the Cyrix MII ( a renamed 6x86MX ) from the market in 1999, the PR system appeared to be dead, but AMD revived it in 2001 with the introduction of its Athlon XP line of processors.

The Socket AM2, renamed from Socket M2 ( to prevent using the same name as Cyrix MII processors ), is a CPU socket designed by AMD for desktop processors, including the performance, mainstream and value segments.

After the takeover from AMD, AMD renamed the Crossfire Xpress 1600 chipset for AMD socket AM2 platform to the AMD 480X CrossFire chipset.

* Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for AMD notebooks

* Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for AMD desktops

* Later renamed as Radeon Xpress 1150 for AMD notebooks

* Nested Page Tables, the former name of Rapid Virtualization Indexing, a hardware-assisted virtualization technology by AMD ( Advanced Micro Devices )

AMD and Intel settled, with AMD acknowledging MMX as a trademark owned by Intel, and with Intel granting AMD rights to use the MMX trademark as a technology name, but not a processor name.

Numerous other software and technology companies also have offices in Champaign including AMD, Intel, IBM, Amdocs, Infobright, Instarecon, Phonak, Power World, Caterpillar Simulation Center, and Volition, Inc ..

* Pacifica, the codename for computer x86 virtualization technology from AMD, currently known as AMD-V

The front-side bus was criticized by AMD as being an old and slow technology that limits system performance.

* Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough MIL-STD-1750A implementation in AMD 2901 bit-slice technology.

* AMD CoolCore technology get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.

* Secure Virtual Machine, or AMD Virtualization ( AMD-V ), a virtualization technology by AMD

* Advanced clock calibration, a technology in the AMD 700 chipset series that enables higher CPU clock speeds

As of late 2011, computer microprocessors run at very high speeds, while memory technology does not seem to be able to catch up: typical PC processors like the Intel Core 2 and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 run with a clock of several GHz, which means that one clock cycle is less than 1 nanosecond ( typically about 0. 3 ns to 0. 5 ns on modern desktop CPUs ), while main memory has a latency of about 15-30 ns.

OpenMP is managed by the nonprofit technology consortium OpenMP Architecture Review Board ( or OpenMP ARB ), jointly defined by a group of major computer hardware and software vendors, like AMD, IBM, Intel, Cray, HP, Fujitsu, Nvidia, NEC, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Oracle Corporation, and more.

Other manufacturers have also produced boards designed around the same form factor, using VIA, but also Intel, AMD, Transmeta and PowerPC technology.

AMD disclosed a joint development with IBM for a SiGe stressed-silicon technology, targeting the 65-nm process.

Released in 1995, a new card based on AMD InterWave technology with a completely different sound set.

That year the inaugural competition, the AMD Open Architecture Challenge, sought ideas to develop innovative off the grid technology centers.

On May 23, 2006, AMD released the Athlon 64 (" Orleans "), the Athlon 64 X2 (" Windsor ") and the Athlon 64 FX (" Windsor ") as the first AMD processors to support this technology.

* Rapid Virtualization Indexing, an AMD technology

The 90 nm process refers to the level of CMOS process technology that was reached in the 2002 – 2003 timeframe, by most leading semiconductor companies, like Intel, AMD, Infineon, Texas Instruments, IBM, and TSMC.

( Examples include Eyefinity by AMD and Nvidia's own 3D surround technology )

This was done to prevent competitors like AMD accessing the technology through pre-existing licensing deals.