A 25 year old easter egg has just been discovered in an AMD CPU

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A 25 year old easter egg has just been discovered in an AMD CPU

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It's not every day that a piece of tech history comes to light, but someone has waited 25 years for their easter egg to be discovered, and that time has finally arrived. When taking a closer look at an AMD Athlon K7 Pluto CPU from 1999, someone found more than they bargained for.

AMD has long been known for producing some of the best gaming CPU options on the market, and the Athlon K7 architecture made a big splash in the late 1990s when it outperformed Intel's Pentium III architecture, back in that strange period when CPUs came in slot format. However, this latest discovery doesn't quite have an explanation to go alongside it yet.
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