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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued its aggressive first-quarter rollout of new processors on Monday, unveiling its long-awaited Athlon XP 3000+ desktop chip.

The 32-bit chip, code-named Barton, is part of AMD's push to chip away at Intel Corp.'s dominance. The 3000+, with a 333MHz front-side bus, 640KB of on-die cache memory-512KB of Level 2 cache and 128KB of
L1 cache-and 2.1GHz of speed, is designed to compete with Intel's Pentium 4 line.

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