25-year-old Easter egg: AMD Athlon K7 processor found with Texas and pistol patterns

News from this site on February 9th. Hardware photographer Fritzchens Fritz recently accidentally discovered an Easter egg that had been hidden for 25 years while inspecting AMD's Athlon Classic CPU.

Using a magnifying glass to examine the Athlon K7 processor, Fritz spotted the Texas logo in the corner, with a photo of a fired revolver underneath.

Note from this site: The first Athlon processor made its debut on June 23, 1999. Its name was taken from the "Decathlon" in track and field sports. ).

The main frequency of the first batch of processors is between 500 and 700 MHz. The socket is Slot A, and the core revision is "K7", continuing the naming convention of its predecessor, the K6 processor.

The first Athlon processor belonged to AMD's seventh generation (K7) and competed with Intel's Pentium III processor at the time. Athlon XP, MP, etc. were subsequently launched.

Athlon (Argon core) is manufactured on a 250nm process and has 512 KB of L2 cache and 22 million transistors. The first models had a plug-in design, designated slot A, and had strong overclocking capabilities.

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