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AMD's classic Athlon CPUs emblazoned with etchings of Texas and revolvers — codenames may have changed to avoid upset car companies

A veteran AMD employee confirms that the original internal Athlon codenames were rethought in order to avoid a potential lawsuit from car companies.

An old AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip. They don't make em like that anymore, eh?

When AMD's Athlon K7 CPU was launched way back in 1999, it turned out to be something of an Intel-killer, smashing the heavyweight's Pentium III CPU. Now it turns out those K7 chips were act

AMD hid a fun Easter egg on its Athlon K7 CPU that went undiscovered until now

The original K7 Athlon processor arrived in mid-1999 and put AMD on equal footing with rival Intel for the first time. Chipzilla had been dominating for years.