it had been a while since AMD had tasted glory. By Read's departure, the last time the company posed a real threat to Intel was back in the early 2000s with its Athlon 64 processors. After that ...

AMD Athlon processors using Slot-A motherboards were the company's first multiplier-locked parts. The processors had their L1 bridges lasered off to prevent users from changing the chip's clock ...

and "accelerating AMD Opteron and Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor sales contributed to a double-digit operating margin for our microprocessor business." AMD's results, the second straight quarter ...

First up is the six-core Athlon FX-6300 processor, which comes with 6 MB of total Level 2 cache and can boost its clock speed to 4.1GHz in Turbo mode. The 64-bit, 32nm chip also comes with AMD's ...