The chipmaker is boosting shipments of a version of its desktop Athlon 64 based on a processor core dubbed Newcastle that features half the cache but the same overall performance.

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AMD, however, prices the Athlon 64 3000+ at $218 in quantities of 1,000 while the 3200+ sells for $418. At AMD, the new chip is known as the "A-Rod," a reference to baseball player Alex Rodriguez.

AMD's Athlon 64 and Athlon XP chip will coexist for some time, with the latter going into less-expensive PCs. AMD would not comment on the pricing of the initial systems.

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AMD's Athlon 64 FX-60 is without a doubt a winner, but with a price tag of $1,031, it's going to be out of the price range of many. Processors: ...

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In May 2005, Intel beat AMD to the punch by a matter of weeks with the first dual-core Pentium 4 Smithfield -- but AMD crushed that chip's performance with the Athlon 64 X2 family.

AMD released four chips Tuesday. The Athlon 64 FX-51 is the performance leader of the group, and priced accordingly at US$733 in quantities of 1,000 units.

AMD expects to see widespread availability of Athlon 64 desktops and notebooks at launch. The Opteron and Athlon 64 chips are both based on a new technology AMD calls x86-64.

Review: AMD ships a 3GHz Athlon 64 X2, meaning AMD's top single-socket CPU actually runs at a higher clock frequency than Intel's fastest Core 2 CPUs. We do the benchmarks to see whether that matters.

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