CPU/Mobo History of AMD CPU's

Not a complete history IMO... Quite a few older processors missed... including the 8085 variant, that Im using to teach uP to junior college students!!
 
^^ Yes it is
i guess he wanted the complete history of microprocessors of both amd and intel.

btw, intel 4004 was the first up isnt it
 
ballistic said:
Wasn't the 8085 an Intel uP???????
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No it was orginally designed by Intel, but then AMD also manufactured 8085 but with a slightly different design and it was also called 8085. I teach students with Nec 8085, AMD 8085 and intel 8085

Also, another misconception among most popular textbooks is that 4004 is the first microprocessor which is untrue. The MOS-LSI was the first microprocessor and not the intel 4004.
 
all the processors by AMD before the K5 were basically clones. I guess thats why its not in that chart. AMD really hit it off with K6 II. Then followed it with the success of K7 and K8.
 
Funky said:
all the processors by AMD before the K5 were basically clones. I guess thats why its not in that chart. AMD really hit it off with K6 II. Then followed it with the success of K7 and K8.
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Not actually, AMD probably had a lot better design for a RISC processor although the market didnt buy it... It was called the 29K. Also AMD had manufactured Am2900, Am293xx etc. which were bit-slice components. Since most of us only know about x86, hey had to clone intel coz it was their architecture.

I think something that we all need to acknowledge is that AMD has spent quite a lot of its time reverse engineering processors, but still they have survived such a long time...
 
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