At the time left Fairchild in 1969, and, also former Fairchild employees, had formed Intel a year before. The company was founded by, electrical engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor. From there, AMD began producing 1024-bit static RAMs, ever more complex integrated circuits, and in 1974 released the Am9080, a reverse-engineered version of the Intel 8080.ĪMD had the beginnings of something great.
The first AMD chip, sold in 1970, was just a four-bit shift register.
source.ĪMD began its corporate history like dozens of other semiconductor companies: second sourcing dozens of other designs from dozens of other companies. This was a company that moved from a semiconductor company based around second-sourcing Intel designs in the 1980s to a Fortune 500 company a mere fifteen years later. AMD was on fire, and with almost a 50% market share of desktop CPUs, it was a true challenger to Intel’s throne.
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