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Athlon 64 FX-57:Great Performance, High Price
Eight months have passed without any clock speed increases in AMD's Athlon 64 family. One reason why AMD stopped at 2.6 GHz certainly was that the 130 nm production process was reaching its limits. Another was the certainty that main competitor Intel had to operate even closer to the limits that its 90 nm process burdened the Pentium 4 family with, so there was less urgency for AMD to up speeds further. These circumstances will persist for a while, meaning that the FX-57 will basically compete only with its own predecessor. ...
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