The AMD Athlon™ processors are members of a new family of seventh-generation AMD processors designed to meet the computation-intensive requirements of cutting-edge software applications running on high-performance desktop systems, workstations, and servers. With the introduction of the AMD Athlon processor with performance-enhancing cache memory, AMD continues to deliver superior solutions for high-performance computing.

The AMD Athlon processors are the world's most powerful x86 processors, outperforming Intel's Pentium® III processor and delivering the highest integer, floating point and 3D multimedia performance for applications running on x86 system platforms . The AMD Athlon processors provide industry-leading processing power for cutting-edge software applications, including digital content creation, digital photo editing, digital video, image compression, video encoding for streaming over the Internet, soft DVD, commercial 3D modeling, workstation-class computer-aided design (CAD), commercial desktop publishing, and speech recognition. They also offer the scalability and "peace-of-mind" reliability that IT managers and business users require for networked enterprise computing.

The AMD Athlon processors feature the industry's first seventh-generation x86 microarchitecture, which is designed to support the growing processor and system bandwidth requirements of emerging software, graphics, I/O, and memory technologies. The high-speed execution core includes multiple x86 instruction decoders, a dual-ported large 128KB split-L1 cache, a large 256KB2 or 512 KB L2 cache, three independent integer pipelines, three address calculation pipelines, and the x86 industry's first superscalar, fully pipelined, out-of-order, three-way floating point engine.