Athlon: Give me an X...Give me a P

This is a discussion about Athlon: Give me an X...Give me a P in the Feedback category; Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will call its upcoming desktop processor the Athlon XP in what seems to be an odd marketing coincidence. Sunnyvale, Calif. -based AMD next month will release a 1. 5GHz Athlon desktop processor.

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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will call its upcoming desktop processor the Athlon XP in what seems to be an odd marketing coincidence.
 
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD next month will release a 1.5GHz Athlon desktop processor. But unlike current chips that merely go by the name "Athlon," the new chip and its successors will carry the XP suffix, similar to Windows XP, the name of Microsoft´s next operating system.
 
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