All objects with Orion chip
| The Orion chipset is used in slot A AMD Athlon 900 and Athlon 1000 models. Orion's release on 6 March 2000 brought AMD's first 1GHz chip and brought AMD on the top of the performance tree. The Orion still had off-die L2-cache which was slower than on-die L2-cache. It ran at 33% of the clock-speed of the CPU-core. Orion's successor, the Thunderbird, will address these problems by integrating the cache into the CPU-core. The image on the right was shown on the Athlon product page in summer 2000 on AMD.com. |  |
