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Jun 17, 2022 · Over the past five years, AMD has increased its market value to $150 billion from $10 billion. John Taylor, the firm's CMO, discusses the transformation that made that happen.
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23 hours ago · AMD explains its AI PC strategy. We chat with two AMD executives on the Engadget Podcast. Over the past few years, the concept of "AI PCs" has gone from sounding like a desperate attempt to revive ...
3 days ago · In the last 12 months, in addition to increasing organic R&D activities, AMD has invested more than $1 billion to expand the AMD AI ecosystem and strengthen the company’s AI software capabilities. Additional Transaction Details The transaction has been unanimously approved by the AMD Board of Directors.
- The Rise to Fame and Fortune
- AMD's First Copycat CPU – The Am9080
- Am286, Am386... Am5x86
- AMD K6 and 3DNow! Era
- First Golden Age: Athlon
- Paradise Lost: AMD Tumbles
- Intel Cores and AMD Buys ATI
- Hardware Bugs: TLB
- One Step Forward, One Sideways, Any Number Back
- Powering Gaming Consoles
To begin our story, we need to roll back the years and head for America and the late 1950s. Thriving after the hard years of World War II, this was the time and place to be if you wanted experience the forefront of technological innovation. Companies such as Bell Laboratories, Texas Instruments, and Fairchild Semiconductor employed the very best en...
The 2 MHz 8-bit Am9080. Image: Wikipedia By the time Intel released their first 8-bit microprocessor (the 8008) in 1974, AMD was a public company with a portfolio of over 200 products – a quarter of which were their own designs, including RAM chips, logic counters, and bit shifters. The following year saw a raft of new models: their own Am2900 inte...
This period represented a huge growth of the fledgling PC market, and noting that AMD had offered the Am286 with a significant speed boost over the 80286, Intel attempted to stop AMD in its tracks. This was done by excluding them from gaining a licence for the next generation 386 processors. AMD sued, but arbitration took four and a half years to c...
By this time, AMD had spent $857 million in stock on NexGen, a small fabless chip (design-only) company whose processors were made by IBM. AMD's K5 and the developmental K6 had scaling issues at higher clock speeds (~150 MHz and above) while NexGen's Nx686 had already demonstrated a 180 MHz core speed. After the buyout, the Nx686 became AMD's K6and...
1999 was the zenith of AMD's golden age – the arrival of the K7 processor, branded Athlon, showed that they were truly no longer the cheap, copycat option. Starting at 500 MHz, Athlon CPUs utilized the new Slot A (EV6) and a new internal system bus licensed from DEC that operated at 200MHz, eclipsing the 133MHz Intel offered at the time. June 2000 ...
There is no single event responsible for AMD tumbling from its lofty position. A global economy crisis, internal mismanagement, poor financial predictions, a victim of its own success, the fortunes and misdeeds of Intel – these all played a part, in some way or another. But let's start seeing how matters were in early 2006. The CPU market was satia...
Three days before Intel launched the Core 2 Duo, AMD made public a move that had been fully approved by then-CEO Hector Ruiz (Sanders had retired 4 years earlier). On July 24 2006, AMD announced that it intended to acquire the graphics card manufacturer ATI Technologies, in a deal worth $5.4 billion (comprising $4.3 billion in cash and loans, and $...
In addition to burning money, AMD's eventual response to Intel's refreshed architecture was distinctly underwhelming. Two weeks after Core 2's release, AMD's President and COO, Dirk Meyer, announced the finalization of AMD's new K10 Barcelonaprocessor. This would be their decisive move in the server market, as it was a fully-fledged quad core CPU, ...
By 2010, the global economy was struggling to rebound from the financial crisis of 2008. AMD had ejected its flash memory section a few years earlier, along with all its chip making foundries – they ultimately became GlobalFoundries, which AMD still uses for some of its products. Roughly 10% of its workforce had been dropped, and altogether the sav...
AMD's Bobcat received an update into the Jaguar architecture, and was selected by Microsoft and Sony to power the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2013. Although the profit margins would be relatively slim as consoles are typically built down to the lowest possible price, both platforms sold in the millions and this highlighted AMD's ability to create...
Mar 19, 2024 · Based on the chart below, AMD’s desktop x86 CPU market share has been rising since 2017 but fell in 2021 to 17.4% from 19.3% in the previous year. However, in 2022, AMD’s market share...
Jul 8, 2024 · AMD used its branding message and advances in AI to surpass Intel in brand recognition, leveraging its advances in AI to attain 53% year-over-year brand growth since 2023. The chipmaker is ranked...
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22 hours ago · For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play.
