An interesting article the AMDZone guys send along takes a look at AMD and Intel as well.

AcesHardware has a pretty good article talking about the AMD Athlon and that whole CPU cache deal. It's fairly informative if you're technical minded. Otherwise it's just jibberish.

With just yesterday the P3-700mhz systems from Intel coming to light, SharkyExtreme has word on the 700mhz Athlon systems from AMD which are in the near future as well. Thanks Blue

The CPUReview guys have kicked up a pretty quick/interesting P3/Athlon price comparison guide.

Here is an interesting Houston Chronicle article talking about the AMD Athlon CPU for your weekend reading. While on the topic, the Extreme Hardware guys talk a bit about the Athlon CPU from AMD and that "overclocking madness" that seems to be taking all the testers by storm. Thanks Redwood

The "darling of the technology press" AMD Athlon CPU is having problems getting support from OEMs like Dell and Gateway. It looks like the manufacturers are skeptical about AMD's ability to supply the # of chips that they would require. As long as we can still get them though  to crank out those Quake3 framerates who cares if Grandma can't get one in her Dell eh? Here is a bit from the ZDNet article:

Steve Duignan, UK product manager for Dell's Dimension range -- "To be honest, we did evaluate the Athlon during pre-testing, as we always have done with previous AMD chips, but the big problem is the company's ability to supply," says Duignan. "AMD hasn't got a particularly good track record in its ability to ship to order and that's the kicker. We're not alone in this -- look at Gateway." ...

Pete's Hardware (to go along with his Dragon, obviously) takes a peek at the Carrera / Kyrotech AMD Athlon at 800MHz.

An interesting article over at ZDNetUK asking the question "Will Intel kill AMD?" basically taking a look at the huge price cuts Intel is taking on their P3 chips in reaction to the release of the AMD Athlon CPU. AMD has one advantage though, their chip is faster. Thanks Rico Suave. (He's back!)

AMD has already concededthat it must respond to Intel's cuts. This follows AMD chairman W. J. Sanders' acceptance last month that Intel's stranglehold on the low-end chip market -- initially through its cut-price Celeron line, and now through the cut-price PII and PIII chips -- was having a "devastating effect" on AMD's business.

CPUReview has their Athlon / P3 comparison article now online.

AGN3D has scored a nice 10 question interview talking with Drew Prairie of AMD talking about the Athlon CPU of course.

TomsHardware takes a look at the P3 and Athlon and gives them the old shootout. I havent read the article but lets hope Tom has some Voodoo benchmarks in there for fun eh?

If you're just dying for that new AMD Athlon CPU, you can stare at these pictures the AlienWare guys have posted of their in-house stash. Anyone still think the Athlon is a big hoax?

It looks like the AMD folks will be hitting that big 0.18 micron technology jump in December of this year. A reach-around goes to the ArsTechnica guys for digging up this memo sent out by AMD to a few vendors. FYI the first run of Athlon (K7) CPUs are planned for 0.25 micron so don't sweat this delaying that chip. While on that topic check out Ace'sHardware latest Athlon update.

This memo is to announce that the K6-III/500 will not be available in our current .25 Micron process technology. We will have to go to .18 Micron to be able to offer this speed on the K6-III. This means availability is pushed out until December, 1999.

CPUReview has a little price comparison article looking at the P3 from Intel and Athlon from AMD.

Yes, we all want that AMD Athlon 650...but Kryotech is back to their usual bag of tricks and have smacked an Athlon up to 800MHz in a cool -40° (where Fahrenheit and Celcius meet) all for a cool $2200! Here's what you get:

• The latest AMD Athlon® processor thermally accelerated to an incredible 800MHz
• SlotA ATX motherboard with 100MHz front side bus
• KryoTech -40C cooling system
• System status LCD mounted on front panel of cooling pedestal
• Thermal-guard automatic shutdown if processor overheats
• State-of-the-art vapor phase refrigeration removes all processor heat
• Custom ATX case by Super Power and KryoTech
• 300 Watt power supply for computer system
• One year warranty: return to factory, parts and labor

Need...Super G...Athlon...now...

It looks like a whole bunch of stuff went down with the AMD Athlon NDA ending a couple of days ago. A couple of listings have come out but I figured I'll try and give you guys the most complete up-to-date list I can come up with. It includes about 6 more articles than what came out a couple of days ago. Here is the latest list of AMD Athlon articles:

ABCNews.com | Ace's Hardware | AGN Hardware | AMD Zone | AnandTech | ArsTechnica | CGO | CNN | CPUReview | FullOn3D | GameSpot | GameCenter | GamersDepot | Hardware.fr | LostCircuits | MercuryResearch | MSNBC | PCMagazine | RapidePC | SharkyExtreme | SysOpt | TomsHardware | Upgrade Center | WinMag | WiredNews

Of course, with all of this AMD Athlon hype, word is that Intel is looking at cutting the prices on their P3 CPUs on August 22nd. Check out TheRegister.

The kids over at AnandTech try to blend-in, down at QuakeCon...but end up talking about hardware stuffs (which is what they do best anyway :)

Surprisingly enough, the Athlon (running on a non-production motherboard) combined with the Rage Fury Pro (a beta product in itself) did turn out to be a very stable setup. Kudos to AMD and ATI for putting all that together for such a smoothly run operation at this year's Quakecon, although there were a few hiccups, overall the hardware had no problem making these gamers happy. For those of you that are more interested in the video card, the response from a few of the gamers that tried out the Athlon systems was generally positive, and a few users even thought that the video cards used in the machines were TNT2s. If you're judging solely on 32-bit color image quality, telling the difference between the Rage 128 Pro and the TNT2 is next to impossible.

FiringSquad pairs up the AMD Athlon 600mhz against the Intel P3 600mhz.

Those crazy ArsTechnica guys are at it again. They dug up this ZDNet article which states that the AMD folks are looking at an "Athlon Professional" CPU as well as an "Athlon Ultra" CPU deal. You would think they also have an "Econo Athlon" or something for guys like me who drive a Geo Metro. Even more interesting is this link that Firestone sent in on a Japenese PC shop stating that "Athron" (heehee) CPUs will be on sale on August 10th? Probably pre-sales but ya never know. At least check out the website and giggle at them spelling it Athron. I lived in Japan for a few years, I used to love hearing them say "Disney Rand"

AMDZone sent along the link to this article on TheRegister with word that the AMD folks have successfully gotten the copper fab up and running and have run some K6 CPUs with the new technology. They are just warming up for those K7 production runs. No word on the % yield though for the wafers.

But success with the K6 in copper is merely a warm up for production of the K7 Athlon, according to Hans Jeppe, who runs the facility,
He confirmed that the fab was capable of producing 5,500 wafer starts a week, but declined to say how many of the dies would be good ones. There will be 300 K7 Athlons per wafer at .18 micron.