The successor to AMD K6-2/K6-III processor
family, AMD K7 family is the seventh generation of x86 processors.
The line of K7 processors consists of:
The K7 processors feature multiple superscalar integer and
floating point units, higher bus speed (up to 400 MHz),
larger L1 cache, multiprocessing (Ahtlon MP), and additional SIMD instructions
(3DNow! and SSE in Athlon XP/MP). Initially produced in June of 1999 using
0.25 micron technology at speeds of 500 MHz and higher, the AMD K7-based
processors are currently manufactured at 0.13 micron technology and have
rated speed of more than 3 GHz.
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Frequency: 500 - 3200 MHz (rated) L2 cache size (KB): 64 - 512 | |
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