What is Athlon?
Athlon is a name for AMD's main line of Intel-compatible CPU's.
The Athlon line is designed to complete against the Intel Pentium CPU's.
Athlon CPU's feature a L1 cache with 64KB of memory for data and another 64KB of memory for instructions.
Athlon CPU's support MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE. Some models of Athlon CPU's also support SSE2.
Athlon CPU's are designed to fit Socket-A or Socket-754 CPU sockets.
Athlon CPU's are slowly being phased out in favor of the newer Athlon 64 family of CPU's.
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