AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology

AMD Turion™

• AMD's most advanced family of dual-core processors made for mobility—delivering outstanding multi-tasking performance in thin and light notebook PC designs

• Simultaneous 32- and 64-bit performance and designed to be compatible with the next generation 64-bit Windows operating system, Microsoft® Windows® Vista™.

• Rich choices for customers of all kinds —long battery life, better security with Enhanced Virus Protection* , and designed for compatibility with the latest wireless and graphics technologies—today and tomorrow

Leading-edge Mobile Performance

• AMD64 dual-core performance delivers exceptional multi-tasking and multi-threaded performance for both 32 – and 64-bit environments

• Featuring AMD's innovative Direct Connect Architecture for leading-edge dual-core processor performance

• HyperTransport™ technology boosts overall system agility so your applications are responsive and you get incredible performance

• AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology featuring AMD Digital Media XPress™ delivers a rich experience on today's multimedia-enhanced software, enabling stellar performance and playback quality on digital entertainment such as games, streaming video and audio, DVDs, and music

• As a leading innovator in today's microprocessor technologies AMD products offer lasting reliability and cutting-edge technology

Enabling Your Mobile Lifestyle

• Uniquely optimized to support today's innovative thin & light notebook designs empowering highly mobile business professionals and consumers living today's on-the-go lifestyle

• AMD PowerNow!™ technology , the first dynamic power management technology in the industry, delivers performance on demand and can extend system battery life up to 65%

• Compatible with currently available 802.11a, b, g, and Bluetooth wireless solutions, AMD Turion 64™ X2 mobile technology enables mobile PC users with integrated Wi-Fi certified WLAN technology to keep in touch. Anywhere mobile users go—from the airport, to poolside, to a remote office location—they can access the Internet, check e-mail, and stay connected

AMD Sempron™ processor

AMD Sempron™ Processor

The AMD Sempron™ processor performs at the top of its class when running the home and business applications most. The AMD Sempron™ processor’s full-featured capabilities can include AMD64 Technology, HyperTransport™ technology, up to 256KB total high-performance cache, One 16-bit/16-bit link @ up to 1600MHz full duplex system bus technology, and an integrated DDR2 memory controller. 

The AMD Sempron™ processor provides the productivity enhancing performance you need for your everyday applications. It runs over 60,000 of the world’s most popular applications, so you can enjoy solid performance. With 35 years of design and manufacturing experience and shipments of more than 240 million PC processors, you can count on AMD to provide reliable solutions for your home or business. 

Affordable - Performance

Full-Featured to Improve your Computing Experience

AMD Sempron™ processor’s advanced architectural features help ensure affordable performance and full-featured capability. These features include:

• AMD64 Technology
• HyperTransport technology
• Up to 256KB total high-performance, full-speed cache
• One 16-bit/16-bit link @ up to 1600MHz full duplex system bus technology,
• Integrated DDR2 memory controller on certain models
• Built-in security with Enhanced Virus Protection* that works with Microsoft^® Windows^® XP SP2 to help protect against viruses, worms, and other malicious attacks. When combined with protective software, Enhanced Virus Protection is part of an overall security solution that helps keep your information safer.

AMD Athlon™ Processor

AMD Athlon™ Processor
Get powerful performance for your unique digital experience

The AMD Athlon™ processor is the first Windows^®-compatible 64-bit PC processor. The AMD Athlon™ processor runs on AMD64 technology, a revolutionary technology that allows the processor to run 32-bit applications at full speed while enabling a new generation of powerful 64-bit software applications. Advanced 64-bit operating systems designed for the AMD64 platform from Microsoft, Red Hat, SuSE, and TurboLinux have already been announced.

With the introduction of the AMD Athlon™ processor, AMD provides customers a solution that can address their current and future computing needs. As the first desktop PC processor to run on the AMD64 platform, the AMD Athlon™ processor helps ensure superior performance on today’s software with readiness for the coming wave of 64-bit computing. With AMD64 technology, customers can embrace the new capabilities of 64-bit computing on their own terms and achieve compatibility with existing software and operating systems.

AMD Phenom™ Processor Family

AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core Processors and AMD Phenom™ X3 Triple-Core Processors

With stable commercial AMD Phenom™ processors, you can deploy systems that deliver industry-leading platform stability and longevity, and the exceptional performance you expect from AMD while helping you protect your investment in technology.

Industry-Leading Stability and Longevity

AMD Phenom processors feature industry-leading stability and longevity so IT organizations can build a computing infrastructure that does more, longer.

AMD Phenom processors enable up to 24-month image stability and longevity on first issue models and minimum 12-month stability and longevity on second issue models for greater cross-generation compatibility and longer PC lifecycles to help minimize IT disruptions.

Backed by an industry-standard warranty, AMD Phenom processors offer assured reliability.

Thanks to professional-grade processing and design, AMD Phenom processors can help systems run cooler and work longer.

Exceptional Performance

Built from the ground up for true triple- and quad-core performance, AMD Phenom processors enable workers to speed through advanced multitasking and critical business productivity applications while enjoying the rich graphical experience of Windows Vista®.

Designed to support next-generation, processor-intensive applications, AMD Phenom processors deliver the performance you demand for advanced multitasking needs in your organization.

Based on award-winning AMD64 technology, AMD Phenom processors are built from the ground up for multiple cores, delivering phenomenal performance and exceptional reliability.

AMD Phenom processors let users enjoy the graphical enhancements in Windows Vista that improve the experience of working with technology.

AMD Phenom™ X3 8600B processors are an excellent upgrade from dual-core for power-users who need the advantages of an additional processing core.

Protect Your Investment

AMD Phenom processors are reliable, efficient workhorses that are future-ready and offer better business value.

Based on award-winning AMD64 technology and built from the ground up for multiple cores, AMD Phenom processors deliver phenomenal performance with triple- and quad-core offerings.

AMD Phenom processors are virtualization-ready to make the most of system resources and new IT management solutions.

AMD Phenom processors are designed for efficiency, with Cool‘n’Quiet™ 2.0 technology helping to prolong system life by generating less heat and noise than previous processors.

AMD Phenom processors feature Enhanced Virus Protection*, which includes no-execute security enhancements that can help protect against certain worms, viruses, and other malicious attacks.

AMD Phenom processors are designed to be stable, reliable, and ready for the future, delivering better performance and greater value — by design.

AMD Phenom™ X3 8600B processors are stable and reliable, delivering many of the advantages of quad-core processors at a more attractive price, delivering performance beyond dual core at a great value.

2003: Intel® Pentium® M Processor

The Intel® Pentium® M processor, the Intel® 855 chipset family, and the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 network connection are the three components of Intel® Centrino® processor technology. Intel Centrino processor technology is designed specifically for portable computing, with built-in wireless LAN capability and breakthrough mobile performance. It enables extended battery life and thinner, lighter mobile computers.

2002: Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor

The Itanium® 2 processor is the second member of the Itanium processor family, a line of enterprise-class processors. The family brings outstanding performance and the volume economics of the Intel® Architecture to the most data-intensive, business-critical and technical computing applications. It provides leading performance for databases, computer-aided engineering, secure online transactions, and more.

2001: Intel® Itanium® Processor

The Itanium® processor is the first in a family of 64-bit products from Intel. Designed for high-end, enterprise-class servers and workstations, the processor was built from the ground up with an entirely new architecture based on Intel's Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design technology. The processor delivers world-class performance for the most demanding enterprise and high-performance computing applications, including e-Commerce security transactions, large databases, mechanical computer-aided engineering, and sophisticated scientific and engineering computing.

2001: Intel® Xeon® Processor

The Intel® Xeon® processor is targeted for high-performance and mid-range, dual-processor workstations, dual and multi-processor server configurations coming in the future. The platform offers customers a choice of operating systems and applications, along with high performance at affordable prices. Intel Xeon processor-based workstations are expected to achieve performance increases between 30 and 90 percent over systems featuring Intel® Pentium® III Xeon® processors depending on applications and configurations. The processor is based on the Intel NetBurst™ architecture, which is designed to deliver the processing power needed for video and audio applications, advanced Internet technologies, and complex 3-D graphics.

2000: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor

Users of Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based PCs can create professional-quality movies; deliver TV-like video via the Internet; communicate with real-time video and voice; render 3D graphics in real time; quickly encode music for MP3 players; and simultaneously run several multimedia applications while connected to the Internet. The processor debuted with 42 million transistors and circuit lines of 0.18 microns. Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004, ran at 108 kilohertz (108,000 hertz), compared to the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor's initial speed of 1.5 gigahertz (1.5 billion hertz). If automobile speed had increased similarly over the same period, you could now drive from San Francisco to New York in about 13 seconds.

1999: Intel® Pentium® III Xeon® Processor

The Intel® Pentium III Xeon® processor extends Intel's offerings to the workstation and server market segments, providing additional performance for e-Commerce applications and advanced business computing. The processors incorporate the Intel® Pentium III processor's 70 SIMD instructions, which enhance multimedia and streaming video applications. The Intel® Pentium III Xeon processor's advance cache technology speeds information from the system bus to the processor, significantly boosting performance. It is designed for systems with multiprocessor configurations.

1999: Intel® Pentium® III Processor

The Intel® Pentium® III processor features 70 new instructions--Internet Streaming SIMD extensions-- that dramatically enhance the performance of advanced imaging, 3-D, streaming audio, video and speech recognition applications. It was designed to significantly enhance Internet experiences, allowing users to do such things as browse through realistic online museums and stores and download high-quality video. The processor incorporates 9.5 million transistors, and was introduced using 0.25-micron technology.

1999: Intel® Celeron® Processor

Continuing Intel's strategy of developing processors for specific market segments, the Intel® Celeron® processor is designed for the value PC market segment. It provides consumers great performance at an exceptional price, and it delivers excellent performance for uses such as gaming and educational software.

1998: Intel® Pentium II Xeon® Processor

The Intel® Pentium II Xeon® processors are designed to meet the performance requirements of mid-range and higher servers and workstations. Consistent with Intel's strategy to deliver unique processor products targeted for specific markets segments, the Intel® Pentium II Xeon processors feature technical innovations specifically designed for workstations and servers that utilize demanding business applications such as Internet services, corporate data warehousing, digital content creation, and electronic and mechanical design automation. Systems based on the processor can be configured to scale to four or eight processors and beyond.

1997: Intel® Pentium® II Processor

The 7.5 million-transistor Intel® Pentium II processor incorporates Intel® MMX™ technology, which is designed specifically to process video, audio and graphics data efficiently. It was introduced in innovative Single Edge Contact (S.E.C) Cartridge that also incorporated a high-speed cache memory chip. With this chip, PC users can capture, edit and share digital photos with friends and family via the Internet; edit and add text, music or between-scene transitions to home movies; and, with a video phone, send video over standard phone lines and the Internet.

1995: Intel® Pentium® Pro Processor

Released in the fall of 1995 the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor is designed to fuel 32-bit server and workstation applications, enabling fast computer-aided design, mechanical engineering and scientific computation. Each Intel® Pentium Pro processor is packaged together with a second speed-enhancing cache memory chip. The powerful Pentium® Pro processor boasts 5.5 million transistors.

1993: Intel® Pentium® Processor

The Intel Pentium® processor allowed computers to more easily incorporate "real world" data such as speech, sound, handwriting and photographic images. The Intel Pentium brand, mentioned in the comics and on television talk shows, became a household word soon after introduction.

1989: Intel486™ DX CPU Microprocessor

The Intel486™ processor generation really meant you go from a command-level computer into point-and-click computing. "I could have a color computer for the first time and do desktop publishing at a significant speed," recalls technology historian David K. Allison of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The Intel486™ processor was the first to offer a built-in math coprocessor, which speeds up computing because it offloads complex math functions from the central processor.

1985: Intel386™ Microprocessor

The Intel386™ microprocessor featured 275,000 transistors--more than 100times as many as the original 4004. It was a 32-bit chip and was "multi tasking," meaning it could run multiple programs at the same time.

1982: 286 Microprocessor

The Intel 286, originally known as the 80286, was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor. This software compatibility remains a hallmark of Intel's family of microprocessors. Within 6 years of its release, an estimated 15 million 286-based personal computers were installed around the world.

1978: 8086-8088 Microprocessor

A pivotal sale to IBM's new personal computer division made the 8088 the brains of IBM's new hit product--the IBM PC. The 8088's success propelled Intel into the ranks of the Fortune 500, and Fortune magazine named the company one of the "Business Triumphs of the Seventies."

1974: 8080 Microprocessor

The 8080 became the brains of the first personal computer--the Altair, allegedly named for a destination of the Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek television show. Computer hobbyists could purchase a kit for the Altair for $395. Within months, it sold tens of thousands, creating the first PC back orders in history.

1972: 8008 Microprocessor

The 8008 was twice as powerful as the 4004. A 1974 article in Radio Electronics referred to a device called the Mark-8 which used the 8008. The Mark-8 is known as one of the first computers for the home --one that by today's standards was difficult to build, maintain and operate.

1971: 4004 Microprocessor

The 4004 was Intel's first microprocessor. This breakthrough invention powered the Busicom calculator and paved the way for embedding intelligence in inanimate objects as well as the personal computer.