På CEBIT-messen indtroducerede AMD sin nye 1,33 GHz processor. Processoren skulle efter sigende outperforme Intel´s P4 processor med op til 40%.
citat[At CeBIT, AMD today announced its continued industry leadership position by introducing the 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz AMD Athlon processors. The 1.33GHz AMD Athlon(TM) processor-based platforms with Double Data Rate (DDR) memory outperform the Intel Pentium(R) 4 processor-based platforms by up to 40 percent on a variety of benchmarks, including video encoding, audio, video and image editing, and 3D modeling and animation.]
link: http://www.amdzone.com/releaseview.cfm?ReleaseID=542