Overview; Tm & Athlon Tm Processors - EPOX MU-8KHA User Manual

Introduction
AMD Duron
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The AMD Athlon
L2 cache, which is powerful enough to support the bandwidth requirements of a
large range of applications, hardware, graphics, and memory technologies. These
processors implement advanced design techniques such as:
Socket A (PGA 462)
200/266MHz system interface based on the Alpha™ EV6 bus protocol.
Three out-of-order, superscalar, pipelined Multimedia Units.
Three out-of-order, superscaler, pipelined Integer Units.
Fixed-sized internal instruction formats (MacroOPs).
72-entry Instruction Control Units.
AMD enhanced 3DNow!™ technology
L1 and L2 caches.
Dynamic branch prediction.
Socket A is the name for AMD's new socketed interface designed to support both
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AMD Duron and AMD Athlon
by integrating the L2 cache memory on chip with the processor. Socket A will
help enable smaller enclosures, and ultimately result in a wider variety of solu-
tions in the market.
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The AMD Duron
deliver the ultimate performance for cutting-edge applications. Both bring to
desktop systems running industry-standard x86 software superscalar RISC
performance. Being provided in the Socket A format they are the world's most
powerful x86 processors. They easily deliver the highest integer, floating-point,
and 3D multimedia performance for applications running on x86 platforms
around.
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& Athlon Processors
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is a seventh-generation micro architecture with an integrated
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processors. This innovation is made possible
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& Athlon processors in the Socket A format continue to

Overview