AMD Athlon Xp2100 Processor Technology
AMD's (Advanced Micro Devices) success seems to be driven by what it calls "customer-centric innovation," its guiding principle. The core business of AMD(Advanced Micro Devices) based in Sunnyvale, California founded in 1969, has been to provide microprocessor and graphics and media solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries. Today with corporate locations at Austin, Texas; and Markham, Ontario, 16,500 employees spread across 80 locations and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia, AMD claims that it has shipped more than 240 million PC processors worldwide. And that its processors undergo extensive testing to help ensure compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2000, as well as Linux and other PC operating systems. AMD Athlon Xp2100 is the focus of this article.
AMD manufactures different types, rather families of processors to suit needs of different customers. We have processors for Desktops, processors for Notebook PC, processors for servers and so on. Within each family there are further divisions. For instance, if we take desktop processors, we have AMD Athlon 64, AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core, and AMD Sempron spread over 38 models, with varying frequencies from 1600 MHz to 3200 MHz. Similarly if we take processors for Notebook PCs, we have Mobile AMD Sempron, AMD Turion64 X2 Dual-Core Processor, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processors, spread over 13 models, with frequencies ranging from 1600 MHz to 2300 MHz.
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Of the various products of AMD, the focus of this article will be AMD Athlon XP2100 Processor. Like models of any other company which manufactures processors, AMD models also have numbers. The model numbers are according to AMD are a simple, accurate representation of relative AMD processor performance and the higher the model number, the better the overall software performance on the processor.
AMD Athlon Xp2100 is a processor with a speed of 1.73GHz with a 0.18 micron Palomino core. It features QuantiSpeed Architecture, 384KB of cache, and 3DNow! Technology. By the way what is Quanti-Speed Architecture? In this context, the claim of AMD is relevant. And as AMD claims, the CPU's will do more work per clock cycle. The FSB speed is 266MHz. It comes with a heat spreader. The basic function of a heat spreader is to ensure that the heat generated does not affect the processor core. AMD Athlon Xp2100 supports hardware prefetch capabilities. This technology enables the AMD Athlon XP2100 to try to anticipate what data the user might want next, fetches it before-hand (based on the actions of the user) and stores it in the L1 Cache to be used by the user. In case the user uses the data pre-fetched, fine. If he does not, then the cache is flushed and the data that is required is fetched. AMD Athlon Xp2100 has an L1 cache of 64KB and an L2 cache of 256 KB. The inclusion of an internal thermal diode is another welcome feature. The advantage with this is that motherboards can read temperatures better with an internal diode than an external one. Another interesting feature is the Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions which enable the AMD Athlon XP2100 to handle multiple data calculations at a time.
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