Gateway Chooses AMD Athlon Processor to Power Its Gateway Select Series
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Gateway Chooses AMD Athlon Processor to Power Its
Gateway Select Series
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000--AMD today announced that Gateway has chosen the AMD
Athlon(TM) processor to power its Gateway(TM) Select PC Series. Systems are now available by calling
1-800-GATEWAY, visiting a Gateway Country® store, or online at www.gateway.com
''The AMD Athlon processor's superior technology brings an exceptional computing experience that customers have come to
expect from Gateway products,'' said Rob Herb, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing for AMD. ''AMD is extremely
pleased a world-class PC manufacturer like Gateway has adopted the AMD Athlon processor in its product portfolio.''
''Gateway's decision to use the AMD Athlon in its Select PC series enhances AMD's credibility and demonstrates that the
AMD Athlon is gaining acceptance at the high end of the desktop computer market. AMD's win at Gateway reinforces the
position of the AMD Athlon processor as a legitimate challenger in the performance segment,'' noted Nathan Brookwood,
principal analyst at Insight 64.
About the AMD Athlon(TM) Processor
The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue
superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating
point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache technology, including 128KB of on-chip level (L1) cache and a
programmable, high-performance backside L2 cache interface; enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology with 24 additional
instructions designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP communications;
and the AMD Athlon system bus -- a 200MHz system interface based on the Alpha(TM) EV6 bus protocol with support for
scalable multiprocessing.
All new AMD Athlon processors are now manufactured on AMD's aluminum 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in
Austin, Texas.
AMD Athlon Awards Around the World
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To date, the AMD Athlon processor has received numerous industry
awards including:
-- Technical Excellence -- Hardware Component, PC Magazine (November
1999)
-- CPU of the Year, Maximum PC (December 1999)
-- Best Product of 1999, Windows NT Systems (January 2000)
-- Ultimate Gaming Machine (co-winner), Falcon Northwest Computers,
Computer Gaming World (December 1999)
-- State-of-the-art Desktop PC: Compaq Presario 5861, PC Computing
(November 1999)
-- All-Star Award, Cadalyst (December 1999)
-- Cadalyst Labs 5-Star (out of a possible 5 stars) Highly
Recommended Workstation: XI Computer 650K MTower SP with a 650MHz
AMD Athlon processor, Cadalyst (November 1999)
-- Editors' Choice (Desktop PCs): TCE K7-600 PC, Computer Reseller
News Test Center, (September 1999)
-- System of the Year: CyberMax Enthusiast AP6 650MHz AMD Athlon
processor, Maximum PC (December 1999)
-- Fastest PC Ever Tested: Alienware Area 51 with 700MHz AMD Athlon
processor, Maximum PC (December 1999)
-- Best Exhibited Product, World PC Expo - Japan, Nikkei Business
Publications (September 1999)
-- Technical Excellence - Hardware Component, PC Magazine en Espanol
(December 1999)
-- Best System Design - Processor, PC Magazine UK (December 1999)
-- Best Overall Product of the Year, PC Magazine UK (December 1999)
-- Product of the Year, Compatible PC (France) (December 1999)
-- Product of the Year, PC World (Denmark) (December 1999)
-- Best CPU for Desktops, PC World Komputer (Poland) (December 1999)
-- Product of the Year, PC World (Norway)
-- Best of Comdex Israel (December 1999)
-- Best Buy Award, Micro Express MicroFlex 550B with 550MHz AMD
Athlon processor, PC World (January 2000)
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets. AMD
produces processors, flash memories and products for communications and networking applications.
AMD processors, including the AMD-K6®-2, AMD-K6-III and AMD Athlon product families, power computers
manufactured by nine of the Top 10 computer OEMs in North America. AMD's mobile processors are used in more than 50
percent of notebook computers sold in the retail market to consumers and small businesses. Founded in 1969 and based in
Sunnyvale, AMD had revenues of $2.5 billion in 1998. (NYSE:AMD - news).
About Gateway
Gateway (NYSE:GTW - news), a Fortune 500 company founded in 1985, provides complete computing solutions for clients
worldwide. The company has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland and Malaysia and employs more than
19,000 people worldwide. Gateway products and services consistently win top awards from leading industry publications.
Revenue for the year 1998 was $7.5 billion.
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