K7
The first Athlon processor was code-named the "K7". Launched on August 9th, 1999, it was AMD's answer to Intel's Pentium III. At the time of launch, the Athlon had the most transisitor count of any desktop processor in the world at ~22million.
The original Athlon processor at 500MHz.
Specifications:
| Release date | August 9th, 1999 |
| Core name | K7 |
| Number of transistors | ~22 Million |
| Manufacturing Process | .25� |
| Location of L2 cache | External |
| Amount of L2 cache | 512kb |
| Package | Slot A |
| Official clock speeds | 500-1000 MHz |
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