Thursday, July 23rd 2009

AMD Celebrates Shipping its 500 Millionth x86 Processor

AMD recently announced its 40th Anniversary celebrations. Coincidence has it that the company reached another milestone at around the same time. It celebrates shipping its 500 millionth x86 processor, what the company specializes in. As the company, like most other companies is facing turbulent economic weather, the celebrations are largely low-profile. To reward its loyal customers, the company announced a contest that involves following AMD on Twitter, answering the question(s), and standing a chance to win one of four HP Pavilion dV2z ultrathin notebooks powered by AMD's Athlon Neo processors. Details of the contest can be read here.
Source: AMD
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28 Comments on AMD Celebrates Shipping its 500 Millionth x86 Processor

#26
btarunr
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DippyskoodlezAlchemy/Geode are MIPS.

Wut?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_%28processor%29
Nope, Geode is based on x86, and Alchemy is not an indigenous AMD design. AMD chipped in its expertise while Sun and Raza made it. It was never marketed under AMD as a central processor. A variant was used as a network card SoC.
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#27
Dippyskoodlez
btarunrNope, Geode is based on x86, and Alchemy is not an indigenous AMD design. AMD chipped in its expertise while Sun and Raza made it. It was never marketed under AMD as a central processor. A variant was used as a network card SoC.
2900/29k were.

Its also extremely important to note that not all chips AMD has ever produced were official "x86".

By design, some were "compatible" with intel sockets, and code used. Unlicensed designs.

If you need any proof of this, just look up the many lawsuits by intel?
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WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
A burn Sir Alex Ice by BTA!
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