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HWSW, a questo indirizzo, ha pubblicato un intervista a Jan Gütter, di AMD:

HWSW: It does seem that your seventh-generation Athlon architecture has reached its upper limits. Your currently fastest Athlon processor, the XP 2200+ operates at 1,8 GHz, while Intel's Pentium 4 may well reach 3 GHz by year end. Do you expect the K7 core to scale beyond 2 GHz? Or in other words, how much potential do you see in your seventh-generation core?

Jan: We have already committed to further expand the life cycle of our Socket A processor range into 2003. So, there is still headroom in the current AMD Athlon XP architecture. Moreover we plan to introduce a new core codenamed "Barton" in the second half of this year with an increased second level cache of 512 KB instead of 256 in the current AMD Athlon XP processor, which should further boost its performance.