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Laptop Buying Guide - page 12

Mobile CPU Specifications

AMD Mobile Athlon 4 CPUs

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AMD Mobile CPUs
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AMD Mobile Athlon XP
AMD Athlon 4 "+" (0.18 microns)
AMD Mobile Athlon 4

 

AMD Mobile Athlon XP (0.13 microns) - On April 17, 2002, AMD announced the new mobile 1600+ and 1700+ AMD Athlon™ XP processors, the first AMD processors manufactured on its state-of-the-art 0.13 micron technology.
On July 15, 2002 AMD announced the 1800+ Athlon XP processor and on September 25, 2002 AMD announced the 1900+ and 2000+ Mobile Athlon XP processors and on November 11, 2002 AMD introduced the 2002+ Mobile Athlon XP.

The mobile AMD Athlon XP processor based on the 0.13 micron technology maintains Socket A and pin compatibility with AMD’s mobile processors manufactured on 0.18 micron technology, while adding a 266MHz front-side bus option to enable greater data throughput.
The mobile AMD Athlon XP processor also features AMD PowerNow!™ technology, the industry’s most sophisticated power management solution, and QuantiSpeed™ architecture, which delivers extreme performance for the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system.

AMD Athlon 4 "+" (0.18 microns). In January, 2002 AMD introduced the new mobile AMD Athlon 4 1500+ (1.3 GHz) processor with QuantiSpeed architecture. On March 13, 2002 the AMD Athlon 4 1600+ was announced.
QuantiSpeed architecture incorporates a nine-issue, fully pipelined superscalar micro-architecture, a superscalar floating-point unit, hardware data pre-fetch, and exclusive and speculative Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLB).

Otherwise the features of this CPU are similar to its mobile Athlon predesessor.

AMD Mobile Athlon 4 - On May 13, 2001, AMD announced the mobile Athlon 4 processor, at speeds of 1GHz, 950MHz, 900MHz and 850MHz.
In August 2001, AMD announced the 1.1 GHz mobile Athlon 4 and in November, 2001 AMD introduced the 1.2 GHz mobile Athlon 4.

The AMD Athlon 4 features a new lower power design for notebook computing, 384 KB of on-chip, full-speed cache with hardware data pre-fetch (256KB of on-chip level (L2) cache and 128 Kbytes of on-chip level (L1) cache), a superscalar floating-point unit, support for AMD's 3DNow! Professional instructions for enhanced multimedia capabilities, and AMD PowerNow! technology for extended battery life.

The mobile AMD Athlon 4 processor is compatible with AMD's Socket A infrastructure, and supports the advanced 200MHz AMD Athlon front-side bus.

Mobile AMD Athlon 4 processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron copper process technology in Fab 30 at Dresden, Germany.

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