AMD delivers high-performance server solutions for today's enterprise community. Backing up its commitment to system stability, the AMD Athlon MP processor offers a balanced combination of performance, reliability, and compatibility, can contribute to a low total cost of ownership, and helps to ensure long-term IT investment protection. Built on the highly stable Socket A platform, the AMD Athlon MP processor provides a stable, single platform for an easy and flexible upgrade path to address a wide range of computing needs. By lowering infrastructure churn and total cost of ownership, AMD's Socket A platform can meet today's needs while helping to enable the future growth of your business. The expertise in multiprocessor computing helps ensure the reliability and stability you expect from an industry leader like AMD. More than 30 years of design and manufacturing experience, and more than 190 million processors shipped worldwide allow AMD to demonstrate its commitment to developing intelligent, innovative processor solutions like the AMD Athlon MP processor for servers - solutions that work best for your business. Innovations such as Smart MP technology and QuantiSpeed architecture make AMD Athlon MP processors stand out from others in their class. Smart MP technology allows the AMD Athlon MP processor to provide a high level of output and scalability via dual point-to-point (non-sharing) 266MHz system buses. With split transaction-based protocol, Smart MP technology allows each CPU to work while continuing to fill data requests; the dedicated bus for each CPU helps deliver better overall performance. Additional features include an advanced cache coherency protocol to manage data and memory traffic and innovative "snoop" buses to facilitate inter-CPU communications. When all these features combine, Smart MP technology increases available bandwidth, reduces data transfer latencies, and can help ensure both processors work to their full potential. Get outstanding server performance with QuantiSpeed architecture. By taking advantage of the AMD Athlon MP nine-issue, superscalar, fully pipelined core, QuantiSpeed architecture provides more pathways for instructions to reach the execution engine. This allows the processor to complete more instructions in a given clock cycle. Hardware data pre-fetch, and Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs) also support additional data throughput and server transactions to provide exceptional server network performance.