A Mobile Athlon XPs ( Athlon XP-M ) using a given core is physically identical to the equivalent desktop Athlon XPs counterpart, only differing by the configuration used to achieve a given performance level.

The Athlon XP-M replaced the older Mobile Athlon 4 based on the Palomino core, with the Athlon XP-M using the newer Thoroughbred and Barton cores.

The Athlon XP-M was also offered in a compact microPGA socket 563 version for space constrained applications as an alternative to the larger Socket A.

They offer a wide variety of processors such as Intel Centrino, Intel Atom, AMD Turion 64, AMD Sempron, or AMD Athlon XP-M.

Geode NX uses the Thoroughbred core and is quite similar to the Athlon XP-M that use this core.

* 7th generation core ( based on Mobile Athlon XP-M ).

Socket 563 is a microPGA CPU socket used exclusively for low-power ( 16 W and 25 W TDP ) Athlon XP-M processors ( Models 8 & 10 ).

* Athlon XP-M

* Pictures of 563-pin µPGA Athlon XP-M processors

Later Athlon CPUs, afforded greater transistor budgets by smaller 180 nm and 130 nm process nodes, moved to on-die L2 cache at full CPU clock speed.

With the older Athlon CPUs, the CPU caching was of an inclusive design where data from the L1 is duplicated in the L2 cache.

AMD later renamed the technology to Cool ' n ' Quiet on their K8-based CPUs ( Athlon 64, etc.

Late designs in several processor families exhibit CMP, including the x86-64 Opteron and Athlon 64 X2, the SPARC UltraSPARC T1, IBM POWER4 and POWER5, as well as several video game console CPUs like the Xbox 360's triple-core PowerPC design, and the PS3's 7-core Cell microprocessor.

* AMD K7, codename for certain AMD CPUs, including the Athlon and Duron microprocessors

AMD even ended up playing a significant role in directing the evolution of the x86 platform when its Athlon line of processors continued to develop the classic x86 architecture as Intel deviated with its " Netburst " architecture for the Pentium 4 CPUs and the IA-64 architecture for the Itanium set of server CPUs.

However, it would use a similar concept in marketing its later CPUs, starting again with the Athlon XP.

It is possible to unlock some locked CPUs ; for instance, some AMD Athlon processors can be unlocked by connecting electrical contacts across points on the CPU's surface.

AMD Athlon and Athlon XP CPUs are generally unlocked by connecting bridges ( jumper-like points ) on the top of the CPU with conductive paint or pencil lead.

The noise issue had received widespread attention with AMD's early Athlon CPUs and Intel's Pentium 4 Prescott core CPU known for its excessive heat and bundled fan noise running on high RPM.

AMD's Athlon II x2 CPUs were 65W, while the Athlon x4 was 95W.

In 2003, AMD introduced the Athlon 64-bit processor which, in addition to introducing 64-bit CPUs to the PC market, integrated the memory controller into the CPU, allowing direct communication between the processor and memory, a protocol termed " HyperTransport ".

No longer a competitive CPU in its intended market segment, it nevertheless required substantial manufacturing resources to produce: in spite of its 21. 4 million transistors, its 118 mm² die was considerably smaller than the 184 mm² of the 22-million-transistor Athlon ( cache RAM taking much less area per-trasistor than logic ), but the K6-III was still significantly more costly to produce than the 81 mm² 9. 3 million-transistor K6-2 CPUs.

Rival chip-maker AMD added support for SSE2 with the introduction of their Opteron and Athlon 64 ranges of AMD64 64-bit CPUs in 2003.

* AMD K8-based CPUs ( Athlon 64, Sempron 64, Turion 64, etc.

* AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64, including all Socket A-based CPUs

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.

This definition of power is often erroneous, as AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium CPUs at similar clock speed often have different throughput speeds.

In April 2005, AMD introduced a subset of SSE3 in revision E ( Venice and San Diego ) of their Athlon 64 CPUs.

The first Sempron CPUs were based on the Athlon XP architecture using the Thoroughbred or Thorton core.

Athlon XP-Ms were popular with desktop overclockers, as well as underclockers.

The continuation of this practice, despite lower performance per clock, led consumers to conclude that AMD's Athlon XP processors, because they had much slower clock speeds than Intel's Pentium 4 processors, were inferior to Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessors.

eMachines were also the first company to sell notebooks based on the AMD Mobile Athlon 64, with the launch of its M6000 series in January 2004.

By September 2010, both The Sporting News and Athlon Sports had ranked Kansas in their pre-season outlook as # 4 overall and, along with ESPN's Joe Lunardi, were projected to become a # 1 seed again in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

From a hardware and user standpoint, the Socket A Sempron CPUs were essentially identical to Athlon XP desktop CPUs with a new brand name.

Slotkets were never introduced to take advantage of the AMD Athlon processors ' transition from the Slot A form factor to the Socket A form factor.

Both single and dual-core processors were manufactured for this socket under the Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron and Opteron names.

The Opteron 185 and Athlon 64 FX-60, both featuring a 2. 6 GHz clock speed and 1 MB of Level 2 cache per core, were the fastest dual-core processors manufactured for this socket.

The Athlon 64 X2 with 512 KB per core, known as 3800 +, 4200 +, 4600 +, and 5000 +, were produced in far greater numbers.

Though there were once reports that the K10 had been canceled, the first third-generation Opteron products for servers were launched on September 10, 2007, with the Phenom processors for desktops following and launching on November 11, 2007 as the immediate successors to the K8 series of processors ( Athlon 64, Opteron, 64-bit Sempron ).

TPMs are already integrated in many systems using Intel's Core 2 Duo processors or AMD's Athlon 64 processors using the AM2 socket.

It was designed from scratch as native dual-core by using an already multi-CPU enabled Athlon 64, joining it with another functional core on one die, and connecting both via a shared dual-channel memory controller / north bridge and additional control logic.