Athlons take aim at Multiprocessor machines

By Alun Williams

Posted on 19 Jun 2002 at 17:40

The latest Athlon XP appears in multi-processor form.

The new AMD Athlon MP 2100+ is targeted at the Linux and Windows based PC server and workstation market - traditionally dominated by Intel.

Working with AMD's Socket A interface and the AMD-760 MPX chipset, the MP 2100+ operates at a frequency of 1.73GHz, which is faster than the AMD MP 2000+ running at 1.67GHz. It is priced at $262, based on 1,000-unit quantities.

The seventh-generation x86 processor features AMD's Smart MP technology for increasing data movement between the two CPUs, chipset and memory system. With 266MHz system buses, there's Error Correcting Code (ECC) support for up to 2.1GB per second per CPU of bus bandwidth in a dual-processor system.

The processor also features AMD's QuantiSpeed architecture, which includes hardware data pre-fetch, and 3DNow! Professional technology for multimedia support.

You can find a FAQ on the new MP processor here.

AMD launched its top of the range desktop offering, the Athlon XP 2100+, back in March coinciding with CeBIT, which is when AMD's MP 2000+ also appeared.