AMD K8

K8 - Hammer
General information
Launched	late 2003
Discontinued	April 2014
Common manufacturer	AMD;
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	1600 MHz to 3200 MHz
FSB speeds	800 MHz to 1000 MHz
Architecture and classification
Technology node	130 nm to 65 nm
Instruction set	AMD64 (x86-64)
Physical specifications
Sockets	Socket 754; Socket 939; Socket 940; Socket AM2; Socket F; Socket S1;
Products, models, variants
Core names	Sempron; Mobile Sempron; Opteron; Athlon 64/FX/X2; Mobile Athlon 64; Turion 64/X2;
History
Predecessor	K7 - Athlon
Successor	Family 10h (K10)

The AMD K8 Hammer, also code-named SledgeHammer, is a computer processor microarchitecture designed by AMD as the successor to the AMD K7 Athlon microarchitecture. The K8 was the first implementation of the AMD64 64-bit extension to the x86 instruction set architecture.^[1]^[2]

^ "List of AMD CPU microarchitectures - LeonStudio". LeonStudio - CodeFun. 3 August 2014. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
^ Hans de Vries (2 October 2001). "AMD's Next Generation Micro Processor's Architecture". Chip Architect. Retrieved 12 September 2015.