AMD Athlon 64 named ´Best PC Processor´

The
AMD Athlon 64 processor has won the Microprocessor Report Analysts´ Choice for
Best PC Processor at the prestigious Microprocessor Report´s Analysts´ Choice
Awards 2002. For the desktop and mobile markets, the upcoming AMD Athlon 64
processor competed for the award along with both Intel´s Pentium 4 and Pentium
M processors. The AMD Athlon 64 processor, designed to run both 32-bit and
64-bit applications, is planned to be launched in September 2003.

The Microprocessor Report Analyst´s Choice Award is the first award the AMD
Athlon 64 processor has received. Award recipients are selected based on an
extensive process by the Microprocessor Report analysts. The analyst team not
only reviewed products introduced during the course of 2002, but looked at
emerging microprocessor technology that was available in sample quantities.

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