AMD pioneered the technology of high-performance and seamless migration of 32-bit and 64 bit computing advantages;With the support of its partners, AMD took the lead in introducing 64 bit computing in the Chinese market.In 2005, AMD was the first in the industry to launch dual core processors.
AMD's customers and business partners have spread all over China, covering scientific research, education, telecommunications, meteorology, oil exploration and other industries. AMD's products have been widely recognized by the Chinese market and users.
In China, AMD has established alliances with many OEM manufacturers, including Lenovo, Tsinghua Unisplendor, Dawning, Fangjia, Zhongke Menglan and other Chinese companies, as well as global leading computer manufacturers such as HP, IBM and Sun.
There are more than 2000 soft wares in the worldHardware developmentCommerceOEMVendors and distributors announce supportAMD64 bit technology。stayForbesAmong the top 100 companies in the global top 2000, more than 75% are using systems based on AMD Haolong processors to run enterprise applications, and the performance has been greatly improved.
AMD's embedded solutions target Internet devices other than personal computers. The targeted products include tablet computers, car navigation and entertainment systems, home and small office network products, and communication devices.AMD Geode solution family includes not only x86 basedEmbedded processorIt also includes a variety of system solutions.AMD's series of Alchemy solutions include low-power, high-performance MIPS processors, wireless technology, development circuit boards and reference design kits.With the introduction of these new solutions, AMD's products will be more diversified, helping to establish AMD's leading position in the new generation product market.
R&D
In order to ensure that the company's products continue to maintain its competitive advantage, AMD has been committed to investing in the development of advanced technologies for the future generation for many years.AMD has begun to develop high-performance technologies that can be applied in the next 5 to 10 years.
AMD is located in Sunnyvale, California, USA and GermanyDresden(Dresden) is responsible for several R&D projects.In addition, AMD also cooperates with IBM to develop a new generation of process technology.
In order to succeed in today's highly competitive market, multinational electronic companies need reliable suppliers and partners to provide them with the solutions they need on time and in quantity.Therefore, AMD has adopted an efficient, partner based R&D model to ensure that its products and solutions can always lead in performance and power.With the help of the technology and resources of industry partners, AMD has integrated advanced submicron technology into its products.Its products are usually ahead of the overall level of the industry, and the cost is far below the average cost.
In order to seamlessly adopt these advanced technologies in the mass production process, AMD has developed and adopted hundreds of patented technologies aimed at automatically determining the most complex manufacturing decisions.These unique functions in the industry are collectively referred to as Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM).They provide AMD with unprecedented production speed, accuracy and flexibility.
The development process of AMD processor products can be divided into five stages:
Phase I
80486 to AMD K6.
The initial product strategy is mainly based on lower product prices. Although the highest performance is not as good as that of Intel products in the same period, it has a better price performance ratio.
Phase II
K7 stage
The performance of K7, especially its floating point operation capability, is welcomed by many DIY (Self Assembling Computer) users.Compared with Intel, AMD has a relatively loose limit on the frequency multiplication locking of CPU, so it is widely welcomed by many users of overclocking.However, due to the lack of overheating protection, excessive overclocking of K7 series CPUs has a high risk of burnout, resulting in low confidence of some consumers in their stability.
Phase III
K8 stage
Due to the priority of entering the 64 bit CPU market before Intel, AMD has the advantage of early development in the field of 64 bit CPUs. At this stage, AMD products still adopt the consistent strategy of low dominant frequency and high performance to solve the problems of CPU instability, heat generation and excessive power consumption due to limited electrical performance, and introduce and use the SOI technology developed by IBM,K8 has lower power consumption than Intel P4 processor in the same performance.
Phase IV
K10 stage
Due to the complex design of the original four cores and the circuit design bug, the Opteron (Barcelona) and Phenom (Agena) of the early B2 core stepping of AMD are not good, and it is difficult to improve the time pulse.For this reason, AMD specially released a patch called "TLB Patch" to solve the B2 core step BUG.Next, AMD will release B3 core steps to solve the TLB bug problem, which can increase the overall performance of AMD K10 processor by another 15%.
Phase V
K10.5 stage
AMD completed the production of 45nm SRAM wafers in May 2007, and announced the trial production of 45nm processors in October 2007.AMD's 45nm processor is produced in Fab 36, a 300mm wafer factory in Dresden, Germany, and the production process is jointly developed by AMD and IBM.For example, immersion lithography, AMD's fourth generation SOI, Ultra-Low-K, etc. are different from Intel's.AMD believes that it is not necessary to enter the 45nm era without High-K and metal gate technology, but it is necessary to reach 32nm.The processors shown here include the server version "Shanghai" and the desktop version "Deneb", both of which are high-end four core models.AMD officially released the 45nm processor in October 2008. The first one was "Shanghai". Then in May 2009, it launched the 6-core Opteron, code named "Istanbul", which still uses the Socket F pin. In the second half of 2009, it launched AMD's third-generation Opteron platform, using the Socket G34 pin instead, and launched the 6-core Opteron, code named "Sao Paulo",It will support DDR3 storage and HyperTransport 3.0 protocol, and will also launch 12 core Opteron, code named "Magny Cours".
Product Line Overview
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AMD's product line is roughly divided into the following categories.
GeodeIt is a low-power embedded processor, specially used for embedded platforms, mobile devices and Thin Client.
SempronIt is a lower level equipment with single/dual core technology, poor performance and clock frequency, but much lower temperature.
Athlon 64It belongs to macro kernel technology and is suitable for middle and low level users.
Athlon X2It belongs to dual core technology and is suitable for users who want to handle multi task jobs.
Athlon IIIt belongs to dual/three/four core 45nm technology and is an affordable product launched by AMD. Compared with the Phenom series, this product does not have L3cache, but increases the old 512KB L2 cache per core to 1MB per core (512KB for four cores).
Turion 64It belongs to macro kernel technology and is specially used in general mobile market.
Turion 64 X2It belongs to dual core technology and is specially used in high-performance mobile market.
Athlon 64 FX is a single/dual core technology with high performance. For multimedia processing and 3D games, FX series is the best choice.
PhenomIt belongs to three/four core technologies and is the product recently launched by AMD.
Phenom IIIt belongs to dual/three/four/six core 45nm technology and is a product recently launched by AMD.
BulldozerIt belongs to the 32 nanometer technology with three/four/six/eight cores. It is the latest product launched by AMD. It is sold in the general DIY market without locking the frequency multiplier (black box). Among them, the most advanced FX-8150 has been sold together with the water-cooled radiator in Japan, which is the first time that AMD has sold the water-cooled radiator and processor together.
OpteronIt belongs to single/double/four/six/twelve core technologies, and is specially used for high-performance server products.
AMD APUIt is divided into A4/A6/A8/A10/E/Athlon/Semprom and other series of product lines. It belongs to dual/quad core technology, mainly targeting entry-level users and the general household market. Except Athlon and Sempron CPUs launched by AM1 low-power platform, most of the Athlon and Sempron in other platforms mask the display output function, while A4/A6/A8/A10 are equipped with CPU built-in display function. Early Llano core adopts 45nm process, and has experienced TrinityRichland et al. used the 32nm process, and Kaveri and Godavari (Kaveri frequency enhanced version) launched in 2015/2016 used the Grofand 28nm process.
AMD Ryzen14/12nm FinFET process and hyper threading technology are adopted, with up to 32 cores/64 threads.Launched in March 2017, it is the closest product to Intel CPU in the past decade.
Processor History
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Initial stage of development
May 1, 1969
AMD was officially established with a start-up capital of US $100000.
November 1969
Fab 1 produced the first excellent chip - Am9300, which is a 4-bit MSIshift register。
November 1972
Start wafer production in the newly completed 902 Thompson Place plant.
January 1973
AMD in MalaysiaPenang IslandThe first overseas production base has been set up for mass production.
Mid development
1974
915 DeGuigne in Sunnyvale was completed.
1975
AMD enters the RAM market through AM9102.
1975
AMD's product line includes the 8080A standard processor and the AM2900 series.
1976
AMD and Intel signed a patent mutual licensing agreement.
1977
Siemens and AMD founded Advanced Micro Computers (AMC).
October 15, 1984
Industry's first single chip burst error processor
The Am9580 is an integrated solution that drives small disk drive technology and accelerates the growth of the emerging PC market.[2]
Am9580 Industry's First Single Chip Burst Error Processor[2]
1978
AMD set up an assembly production base in Manila.
1978
AMD's sales reached an important milestone: the annual total turnover reached 100 million dollars.
1981
The chips made by AMD were used to build space shuttles. In the same year, AMD decided to expand cooperation with Intel.
1982
The new production line (MMP) has been put into use.
1983
Singapore Branch was established and INTSTD.1000 Quality standards.
Contemporary
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1984
Construction and expansion of Austin factory in Bangkok production base.
1985
It is listed in the Fortune 500.In the same year, the free chip program was launched.
January 9, 1986
Industry's first single chip compression/expansion processor
The Am7970 uses three processing engines and a dual bus architecture to expand and compress text and image data at the same time.This is an important step to promote the development of efficient office automation equipment.[2]
The Am7970 uses three processing engines and a dual bus architecture[2]
October 1988
SDC base starts construction.
March 1991
AMD debuts AM386® Microprocessor series
Join the 32-bit 80386 compatible CPU market competition and make computers affordable.[2]
AM386 ® microprocessor[2]
February 1992
AMD's legal lawsuit against Intel ended, and AMD won the lawsuit, obtaining the qualification to produce 386 processors.
January 1994
AMD cooperates with Compaq and supplies AM485 CPU.
AMD-K5 ® is AMD's first independently designed socket compatible X86 microprocessor
This proves that AMD is fully capable of providing microprocessors that are fully compatible with mainstream desktop computers.Computer manufacturers can therefore achieve higher performance at an affordable cost.[2]
AMD-K5 ® X86 microprocessor[2]
April 2, 1997
AMD-K6 ™ CPU reduces the price of personal computer to below $1000 for the first time
The RISC86 core converts complex instructions into streamlined operations for higher performance.[2]
AMD-K6™ CPU[2]
1999
Sulong processor is the industry's first 7th generation X86 processor
The first processor using copper processing technology.[2]
Sulong processor The seventh generation X86 processor[2]
March 6, 2000
The first processor to break through 1GHZ (one billion clock cycles per second)
Sulong 1000 is a single core processor based on K75 core.It is the first desktop processor to break through the 1GHz CPU clock frequency threshold.[2]
Sulong 1000 processor[2]
2001
AMD launched AMD Athlon MP dual processors for servers and workstations.
In 2002, AMD acquired Alchemy Semiconductor.
April 22, 2003
Haolong and Sulong 64 processor product lines are based on AMD64 architecture, which is the first x86 based 64 bit processor architecture
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The first 64 bit processor based on X86[2]
August 31, 2004
AMD demonstrated the industry's first x86 dual core processor at the company's exhibition in Austin Park.AMD demonstrated the HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual core AMD Haolong processors, which use a 90nm insulating silicon process.[2]
X86 dual core processor shown[2]
2005
AMD called on Intel to hold a dual core competition in Singapore, and AMD published socket 939 to encircle Intel and issued a dual core duel challenge.
2006
AMD releaseSocket AM2To replace Socket 754 and Socket 939.
July 24, 2006
AMD acquires ATi.
September 10, 2007
The four core Haolong processor uses a new fast virtualization index technology to reduce the system overhead related to software virtualization.[2]
Four core Haolong processor[2]
October 8, 2008
AMD announced its split into two companies, one focusing on processor design and the other on production.
2009
high passAcquisition of AMD's mobile device assets.
In 2010, AMD (ATI) was independentShow CoreThe shipment volume replaced NVIDIA to become the first in the world.[1]
January 2011
AMD launchesFusionSeries Bobcat APU chip is a chip containing CPU（a central processor）With the combination of GPU (Image Processor) and GPU (Image Processor), there will be 4 chips in the first round, and the GPU part can really support 1080p high-definition playback (hardware decoding).
March 6, 2011
Dubai New Technology Investment Company (ATIC) acquired AMD'sGrofand Semiconductor Co., LtdThe remaining 8.8% shares become an independent chip manufacturer, making ATIC the sole shareholder.
September 30, 2011
Bulldozer(Bulldozer) products come out with a new architecture and adopt a new slot AM3+.In fact, the architecture has had R&D projects since 2003, but because of insufficient funds, it was shelved until 2011.
2012
PiledriverThe (pile driver) structure is derived from the improved bulldozer structure.
2013
AMD replaced the product logo again.
May 22, 2013
AMD officially announced that the next-generation host "Xbox One" uses APU as its single chip solution.
June 2013
Richland APU officially launched.
January 14, 2014
Kaveri APU officially launched.
March 2014
The Kabini APU desktop model was launched, and the official strategy said that it was not sold in China, but only for developing countries where computers are not fully popularized.
On November 7, 2017, Intel announced that it would cooperate withAMDCooperation,IntelAMD's Radeon GPU processing unit will be used in its H series 8th generation core processor for notebooks.
February 13, 2018
The first AMD Ryzen™Desktop APU publishing.
On April 19, 2018, AMD's second generation Ryzen desktopprocessorpublish.
May 27, 2019
AMD's third-generation desktop processor based on Zen 2 architecture was released in Taipei.
October 2020
The AMD Reelong 5000 series processor was released in October and officially launched in November.This generation can be called AMD's generation of products that can catch up with Intel in the mainstream desktop processor market. Especially in terms of single core performance and game performance, AMD has made amazing progress.[3]
Ruilong 5000 series processor
August 2021
AMD launched two types of processor products with integrated graphics cards, namely, the Sharp Dragon 55600G and the Sharp Dragon 75700G.[4]
