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/ Adam Richardson

AMD Athlon Picks Up Eight More Awards At CeBIT

AMD’s Athlon processor adds eight CeBIT 2000 awards, including recognition for a 1.1 GHz technology demo.

AMD came out of CeBIT 2000 with eight more awards for the Athlon processor, bringing the chip’s award count to 51 since its August 1999 introduction. That is not a bad way to remind Intel that the CPU fight is getting spicy.

One of the big honors came from CHIP magazin, which recognized AMD’s 1.1 GHz Athlon technology demonstration in the hardware category. The demo CPU uses 0.18 micron copper interconnect technology and an integrated level 2 cache running at full processor speed.

The chip was produced at AMD’s Fab 30 in Dresden, which AMD expects to begin shipping copper-based processors by the end of the second quarter. Athlon keeps gaining momentum, and every award is another little sign that the old processor pecking order is wobbling.