THE BARTON 3000+, which AMD formally released today, is the world's highest performing desktop PC chip, it claimed today.
The firm bases its claim on a set of "industry standard" benchmarks which it said means that competing ? that is to say Intel chips ? are outperformed to the tune of 17 per cent.

AMD started shipping the Barton 3000+ today with 640K of cache memory ? it also claims that's a first.

Companies shipping the chip today include NEC and Packard Bell, and AMD said other manufacturers will ship machines based on its latest product "soon".

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