AMD K8
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The AMD K8 Hammer, also code-named SledgeHammer, is a computer processor microarchitecture designed by AMD as the successor to the AMD K7 Athlon microarchitecture. The K8 was the first implementation of the AMD64 64-bit extension to the x86 instruction set architecture.[1][2]
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Launched | late 2003 |
Discontinued | April 2014 |
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Performance | |
Max. CPU clock rate | 1600 MHz to 3200 MHz |
FSB speeds | 800 MHz to 1000 MHz |
Architecture and classification | |
Technology node | 130 nm to 65 nm |
Instruction set | AMD64 (x86-64) |
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History | |
Predecessor(s) | K7 - Athlon |
Successor(s) | Family 10h (K10) |
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