Back in 2002, when CPU process nodes were measured in Microns, and processors used a 32-bit word size, AMD launched the Athlon XP 2000+ in an attempt to take down Intel's Northwood-based Pentium 4 chips. Today, almost 22 years later, we've come across a packaged, sealed, and untouched Athlon XP 2000+ by Bits And Chips over at X; truly a relic of a bygone era.
The AMD Athlon XP 2000+ was fabricated using a 0.13-micron process node equivalent to 130nm. It offered a slow base clock of 133 MHz, but even that's over 33% faster than the Pentium 4 2.2 (Northwood). The CPU featured just a single core and a single thread, which wasn't uncommon back then.
