Athlon 64
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The Athlon 64 is an AMD chip introduced in 2003, and it uses the AMD64 architecture. The line of CPU uses 64-bit technology, which many percived to be panic responce to the Pentium 4's raw clock speed advantages, and AMD was also criticized for prematurely releasing the x86-64 microprocessor architecture (64-bit).
Since 2003, other versions of the Athlon 64 have been added, such as the Athlon 64 FX, the Mobile Athlon 64, and the dual-core Athlon 64 X2. It is a CPU help in high regard by gamers, although rival chip maker Intel overshadowed AMD's AMD64 architecture with the Core architecture in 2006.
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