13 Facts About Athlon 64

Athlon 64 is a ninth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by Advanced Micro Devices, released on September 23, 2003.

Athlon 64 was originally codenamed ClawHammer by AMD, and was referred to as such internally and in press releases.

The first Athlon 64 FX was based on the first Opteron core, SledgeHammer.

AMD's official breakdown of the chips placed the Athlon 64 X2 aimed at a segment they called the "prosumer", along with digital media fans.

The Athlon 64 was targeted at the mainstream consumer, and the Athlon FX at gamers.

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Athlon 64 had been maligned by some critics for some time because of its lack of support for DDR2 SDRAM, an at the time emerging technology that had been adopted much earlier by Intel.

The Athlon 64 FX-62 was released concurrently on the Socket AM2 platform.

Athlon 64 architecture was further extended with the release of Athlon 64 Neo processors on January 9, 2009.

The Athlon 64 has an integrated heat spreader which prevents the CPU die from being damaged accidentally when mounting and unmounting heat sinks.

Athlon 64 CPUs have been produced with 130 and 90 nm silicon on insulator process technologies.

Athlon 64 FX is positioned as a hardware enthusiast product, marketed by AMD especially toward gamers.

Athlon 64 X2 is the first dual-core desktop CPU manufactured by AMD.

Athlon 64 was succeeded by the K10 architecture in 2007, including but not limited to the Phenom and Phenom II processors.