PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

[soAsian]

I'm remember Athlon. AMD should keep that brand name.

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

Today, in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable processor milestone, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born. AMD scored marketing gold ahead of its powerful rival Intel. PC industry heavy hitters of the time, Compaq and Gateway, were key partners, and the first pre-built 1 GHz system deliveries began the following week.

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[gftaylor]

At the time Intel’s market share was such that new product pre-announcements just delayed sales, so Intel’s 1GHz processor wasn’t announced until the day it was available for retail sale. AMD’s processors weren’t available for sale until several days after their pre-announcement and days after availability of Intel’s 1GHz processors. But announcement dates are always recorded, availability less often.

 

[Xebec]

Unfortunately I can't seem to paste the animated version of this.. Athlon was a great name - a 40% stronger FPU at the same clock as Pentium 3 was excellent for a lot of applications and games.

(Also Kudos to AMD for forcing Intel to push Coppermine to the point it broke at 1.13 GHz ).