Advanced Micro Devices (better known as AMD) develops and manufactures microprocessors, graphics processors, numbers, and video capture cards. Recently, he has been actively engaged in the production of video cards for mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Now the company is popular all over the world. How did it all begin? Consider the main events that occurred in the history of the company.
The birth of a global brand
Officially, the company began its operations on May 1, 1969. Walter Jeremy Sanders III and 8 of his comrades became the founder of the brand. The history of the foundation of the company is attractive in several aspects.
The company's founder graduated from the University of Illinois and became an engineer. After completing his studies, Walter began his working career. He has worked in several companies. In the end, fate brought the young man to Fairchild Semiconductor. For a long time he did not work here. The fact is that the company management believed that the engineer should work for the idea. Accordingly, it is not surprising that the engineer simply ran away from such an employer. It is noteworthy that such famous personalities as R. Neuss and G. Moore worked here. They quit their jobs and founded Intel.
Following these engineers, a group of 8 people decided to leave the company. They decided to establish their production company. But alas, the guys did not know how to do business properly. In this regard, they offered to join the team of W. D. Sanders. The young man agreed without hesitation. Soon, AMD was founded. Equipped capital amounted to 100 thousand dollars.
Where were the founders of the company able to take 100 thousand?
First of all, you need to understand that in the authorized capital is not required to make the full amount at once. In order to register a company, you only need to pay a small registration fee and sign an agreement that the founders promise to find 100 thousand. They found money for registration, but they were sorely lacking for further work.
This is where Sanders skills came in handy. He invited a lawyer T. Scornia to work. They made a detailed business plan for many years to come. The company planned to develop microelectronics. In particular, they were going to produce microchips for computer equipment and other electronic devices. At first, $ 1.5 million was required. In those days, no one wanted to invest such sums in dubious developments.
In the end, Sanders decided to turn to his former colleague, and at that time - the main competitor, Noyce. The founder of Intel studied the business plan and decided to provide the necessary amount.
Already in 1982, the company had all the necessary licenses for the development of 8086, 80186 and 80286 processors. It is important to note that Intel just developed the 80386 processor, Intel has refused to transfer AMD. Intel terminates the agreement with AMD. Sanders company goes to court. In 1991, a verdict was issued, according to which Intel undertakes to transfer all rights to the processor and pay a billion dollars in a penalty.
In the future, the company decided to follow the path of reverse engineering. They continued to be engaged in the release of AM 386 processors, then 486. They differed in hardware, at the same time, completely identical in microcode. Here is the turn of Intel to go to court. On December 30, 1994, the Court recognized the microcode as the property of the plaintiff.
Since 1995, Intel Pentium and AMD K5 processors run a wide variety of applications for the x86 platform, but they were completely different in terms of architecture.
Company achievements after 2000
In 2000, AMD became the first company to launch a processor with a frequency of 1 GHz. He belonged to the Athlon family.
In 2003, processors are launched that support 64-bit instruction sets. They appeared in both Athlon and Opteron.
In 2004, the Company launched the 2-core x86 AthlonX2 processors.
In 2006, a 4-core server processor was introduced. Whole kernels are grown on a single crystal.
In 2011, the first hybrid processors appeared. They showed that integrated graphics can easily cope with most of the tasks.
AMD graphics and processors are now used in the development of almost all the famous consoles. AMD development is responsible for the image even in those products where Intel products are used for calculations. For example, in Appl.
Since 2011, the company has been working on the development of the Radeon E6760. This is the world's first embedded GPU system, with OpenCL support and the ability to work on 6 displays simultaneously. In addition, the product provides the ability to support DirectX 11 libraries and Eyefinity technology. In addition, we note support for interfaces HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2.
In 2012, there are processors Trinity and Richland APU. They differ in 1 TB of memory. There are both 2 and 4 nuclear options on the market.
In 2014, the APU line was updated. Then they applied the new Steamroller architecture. The company switches to 28 nm lithography. The first Steamroller were presented in Kaveri chips. Somewhat later, the line was updated before the appearance of Godavari chips.
The latest AMD architecture based on the Dozer is known as Excavator. These solutions are used in the APU Carrizo.
In 2018 - 19 years. AMD development appeared in the new line of NAS, the company Qnap.
The AMD company has joined the HSA Foundation Alliance. It also includes such grants as Samsung, ARM, Media Tech, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. They want to unify the rules of modern programming and develop uniform standards for parallel computing.
Recently, AMD products have found their use in the creation of cryptocurrency mining cards. They are considered the most productive and not expensive to maintain.
Company plans
In 2019, the company made several loud announcements. In particular, in May, they announced the production of Ryzen 3000 processors. They will work on the basis of using the Zen 2 architecture. Some experts claim that the new products will be 16-core.
An early start of sales of EPYC “Rome” server chips is announced.
The latest long-awaited novelty will be the video cards that will run on Navi processors. Most likely the company will first launch a mid-range video card on the market. More expensive will be the most recent.
In addition, according to preliminary reports, the company plans to launch graphic accelerators on the market a month after the appearance of the Ryzen 3000.
Thus, during its long-term history, the company was able to take one of the leading places in the modern development of solutions for processors.
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