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The Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M Processor
March 2003
Conclusion: Technology and Performance Leadership of
x86 Microprocessors
With these key differentiating features of the mobile AMD Athlon XP-M processor
with QuantiSpeed architecture…
0.13-micron process technology—Provides further thermal
headroom necessary to scale frequency within the thermal limits of
mobile platforms for AMD processors, thus maximizing overall
processor performance
AMD PowerNow! technology—Industry’s first dynamic power-
management solution to optimize notebook system battery life while
delivering performance on demand
512KB L2 cache—Increases the performance of applications such as
high-end gaming and digital media by keeping more frequently
accessed instructions and data close to the CPU.
QuantiSpeed architecture:
Nine-issue, superscalar, fully pipelined microarchitecture—
Provides a wide executing bandwidth to improve overall productivity
Superscalar, fully pipelined FPU—Increasing performance of
floating point-intensive applications while offering 3DNow! Professional
technology support
Hardware data prefetch—Increasing performance on high-end
software applications using high-bandwidth system capability,
especially with DDR memory
TLB enhancements—Increasing performance of high-end, data-
intensive applications
…AMD continues to accelerate technology innovations while meeting the
computationally intensive requirements of software applications including:
3D applications—3D modeling, high-end gaming, etc.
Multimedia/digital content creation applications—Photo and
video editing, video encoding and decoding, image compression, soft
DVD, MP3 encoding and decoding, etc.
High-end applications—Digital publishing, speech recognition, CAM,
digital prototyping, etc.