AMD Athlon Processors
AMD Athlon Processors history began with the first Athlon classic, the first of the seventh generation of x86 processor, and because it’s the first, but he remained in the first representation ahead of Intel for a couple years.
He showed that many promises, as he has shown in the performance comparison to the Pentium-3, as the masters of that time. The second generation called Athlon Thunderbird came during the year 2000. He has a speed between 600 to 1400 MHz. AMD replaces the 512 KiB external reduces the speed of the cache used in the classic Athlon with 256 KiB-chip high-speed cache exclusively. The Thunderbird at this moment, it was more than rival AMD Pentium 3, but has not yet come to an end. The AMD Palomino released or Athlon XP. XP meaning "Extreme Performance". Then AMD Thunderbird published, with 1.8 GHz. Secondly, the fifth-generation Athlon came, the processors Barton, in the same speed as the pure-blood predecessor.