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Microprocessor Report Names AMD Athlon Processor
`Best PC Processor'
AMD Athlon processor and systems based on it have
earned 35 awards worldwide
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2000--The AMD Athlon(TM) processor began the Year
2000 winning a prestigious award from one of the microprocessor industry's leading technical publications.
MicroDesign Resources, publisher of the Microprocessor Report, announced today that the AMD Athlon processor
beat out the Intel Pentium III© Coppermine and the Motorola PowerPC G4 to win the publication's first ever
Analyst's Choice Award for Best PC Processor.
With 35 awards in hand since the product was launched in August 1999, the AMD Athlon processor is also the first
AMD microprocessor to win multiple awards as a top-performing workstation processor.
``The AMD Athlon processor continues to gain acceptance from computer manufacturers, businesses and
end-users, as well as the trade press and analysts who cover the industry,' said Larry Hollatz, group vice president
of the Computation Products Group at AMD. ``We are grateful to MicroDesign Resources for recognizing the AMD
Athlon processors superior engineering design and performance. These awards come from a variety of publications
around the globe, testifying to the AMD Athlon processor's worldwide appeal.'
The Analyst's Choice Awards recognize excellence in microprocessor technology innovation, design and
implementation, and are chosen by Microprocessor Report's team of respected, independent analysts. The
Microprocessor Report is published by MicroDesign Resources, based in Sunnyvale, California.
In addition to the MicroDesign Resources award, the AMD Athlon processor also received a PC Magazine 1999
Technical Excellence Award in November at Comdex for Best Component in the hardware category, as well as
nearly 35 other awards.
Equipped with a superscalar floating point engine and high-bandwidth, 200MHz system bus, the AMD Athlon
processor's seventh-generation microarchitecture enables it to achieve superior performance levels and make it
particularly appealing for workstations. Several workstation publications that tested the AMD Athlon processor gave
it -- or systems based on the processor -- awards, including: Best Product of 1999, Windows NT Systems (January
2000); All-Star Award, Cadalyst (December 1999); Wired for 3D Editors' Choice, 3D Magazine (January 2000); and
Cadalyst Labs 5-Star (out of a possible 5 stars) Highly Recommended Workstation: Polywell 800K7-6501 (with an
AMD Athlon 650 MHz processor), Sys Performance 600A (AMD Athlon 600 MHz processor), and XI Computer
650K MTower SP (AMD Athlon 650 MHz processor).
Overall, the AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon processor-based systems have received 35 awards from eight
different countries spanning four continents. The following is a listing of the AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon
processor-based awards:
AMD Athlon Processor Awards
Analyst's Choice Award -- Best PC Processor, Microprocessor Report, January 2000; Technical Excellence -- Best
Component (Hardware Category), PC Magazine, November 1999; CPU of the Year, Maximum PC, December
1999; Best Product of 1999 (Hardware), Windows NT Systems, January 2000; All-Star Award, Cadalyst, December
1999; Wired for 3D Editors' Choice, 3D Magazine, January 2000; Attaboy Award -- Product of the Year, Houston
Chronicle, December 1999; Technical Excellence -- Best Component (Hardware Category), PC Magazine en
Espanol, December 1999; Best Overall Product of the Year, PC Magazine (UK), December 1999; Best System Design
-- Processor, PC Magazine (UK), December 1999; Product of the Year, PC Expert (France), January 2000;
Technical Excellence -- Hardware and Component Category, PC Expert (France), January 2000; Year 2000 Star
Product (New Technology Category), Info PC (France), January 2000; Overall Product of the Year, Info PC
(France), January 2000; Editors' Choice, Generation PC (France), January 2000; Product of the Year, PC
Compatibles (France), December 1999; Product of the Year -- Processor, PC Direct (France), January 2000;
Product of the Year 2000, PC Achat (France), January 2000; Product of the Year, PC World (Denmark), December
1999; Product of the Year, PC World (Norway), December 1999; Best CPU for Desktops, PC World Komputer
(Poland), December 1999; Technology Product of the Year, PC Kurier (Poland), January 2000; Millennium Award,
Personal Computer Magazine (The Netherlands), January 2000; Best of Comdex (Israel), December 1999; and Best
of World PC Expo 99 (Japan), Nikkei BYTE/Nikkei WinPC Magazine, September 1999.
AMD Athlon Processor-based Awards
State-of-the-Art Desktop PC: Compaq Presario 5861, PC Computing, November 1999; Editors' Choice Award
(Desktop PCs): TCE K7-600, Computer Reseller News, September 1999; #1 Midrange PC: Micro Express's
MicroFlex-550B, PC World, January 2000; Best Hardware of 1999: Polywell Poly 800K7-700, CNET.com,
December 1999; System of the Year: Cybermax Enthusiast AP6 650 MHz Athlon, Maximum PC, December 1999;
Attaboy Award -- Best Consumer PC: Compaq Presario 5900Z, Houston Chronicle, December 1999; Cadalyst Labs
5-Star (out of a possible 5 stars) Highly Recommended Workstation: Polywell 800K7-6501 (with an AMD Athlon
650 MHz processor), Sys Performance 600A (AMD Athlon 600 MHz processor), and XI Computer 650K MTower
SP (AMD Athlon 650 MHz processor); and Ultimate Game Machine (co-winner): Falcon Northwest Computers,
Computer Gaming World, December 1999.
In addition to the numerous AMD Athlon processor awards, the AMD-K6-III© has received the following awards:
Editors' Choice, PC Expert (France), September 1999; Best Product of the Year for Mobiles, PC World Komputer
(Poland), December 1999; and Best Product of the Year -- Microprocessor, Info Exame (Brazil), December 1999.
The AMD Reseller Program also received a Computer Reseller News' XChange Xcellence Award for having the
Most Comprehensive White Box Program in September 1999.
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 128 KB of on-chip
level-one(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
manufactured on AMD's 0.18-micron process technology in FAB 25 in Austin, Texas.
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, including Compaq, HP and IBM. AMD's
mobile processors are used in more than 55 percent of notebook computers sold in the retail market to consumers
and small businesses. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $2.5 billion in 1998.
(NYSE:AMD - news).
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AMD, AMD Athlon, K6, 3DNow! and combinations thereof are trademarks and AMD-K6 is a registered trademark
of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Other product names used
in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
AMD Public Relations
Ward Tisdale, 512/602-8536
ward.tisdale@amd.com
or
Toni Beckham, 408/749-3127 (Investor Relations) |
