AMD Athlon 650MHz Processor Announced

AMD Athlon 650MHz Processor Announced landed today, giving players another thing to circle on the calendar.

AMD today introduced the 650MHz AMD Athlon processor, the world’s fastest and highest-performance microprocessor for x86 computer systems.

The AMD Athlon family is designed to deliver unprecedented performance for cutting-edge commercial and consumer software applications running on high-end desktop systems, workstations, and servers. The AMD Athlon processor is available in speed grades of 650, 600, 550, and 500 MHz.

available in speed grades of 650, 600, 550, and 500 MHz. At 650MHz, the AMD Athlon is the world’s fastest x86 processor. The AMD Athlon processor’s seventh-generation microarchitecture, superscalar floating point engine, and high-bandwidth, 200MHz system bus enable it to achieve performance levels never before attained by an x86 processor. The AMD Athlon significantly outperforms previous-generation processors, such as Intel’s Pentium® III product family, and delivers the highest floating point, integer, and 3D multimedia performance for x86 system platforms.

PC hardware is moving stupid fast right now, and this is one more part of that arms race.