AMD Athlon
Athlon is a registered trademark of the microprocessor manufacturer AMD . AMD introduced the name in 1999 and sold a processor family under this name until 2002. Because of the success of this processor family, AMD repeatedly chose product names based on the brand name Athlon for processors in the desktop segment. In 2007 it was announced that AMD will use the brand name Phenom for the processors of the K10 generation in the future . The name Athlon is still available for processors in the lower price segment.
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The following processors had the Athlon name in their product designation:
- AMD Athlon (K7) , a K7 generation processor , from 1999 to 2002
- AMD Athlon MP , a K7 generation processor , from 2001 to 2003
- AMD Athlon XP , a K7 generation processor , from 2001 to 2004
- AMD Mobile Athlon 4 , a K7 generation processor , in 2001
- AMD Athlon XP-M , a K7 or K8 generation processor , from 2002 to 2005
- AMD Athlon 64 , a K8 generation processor starting in 2003
- AMD Athlon 64 FX , a K8 or K9 generation processor , from 2003 to 2007
- AMD Mobile Athlon 64 , a K8 generation processor , from 2004 to 2005
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 , a K9 generation processor , from 2005 to 2009
- AMD Athlon based on K8 is covered in the AMD Athlon 64 article , 2007-2009
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Mobile) , a K9 generation processor , from 2007 to 2009
- AMD Athlon X2 , processors of the K9 generation from 2007 to 2009 or K10 generation from 2008 to 2009
- AMD Athlon X2 (Mobile) , a processor based on AMD K8 - and in the uncore area based on AMD K10 from 2008 to 2009
- AMD Athlon II (Mobile) , a K10-based processor , starting in 2009
- AMD Athlon II , processors of the K10 generation starting from 2009
- Jaguar-based AMD Athlon processors are covered in the AMD Fusion article , as of 2014
- AMD Athlon processors based on Zen , from 2018
