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Advanced Micro Devices

 

 

Company Pedigree

 

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Company

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Fairchild Semiconductor Jerry Sanders founded AMD in 1969. Cypress Semiconductor Founder and CEO T. J. Rodgers
MMI Purchased Monolithic Memories, Inc in 1987.

 

Company Overview

AMD started out producing high quality logic chips (Fairchild and National Semiconductor). AMD produced its  AMD signed a 10 year Second Source agreement with Intel in February of 1982.

 

Major Achievements

1st Product:  AM9300 Shift Register

 

 

Chip Identification

 

AMD Chips

 

 

Microprocessors

CPU's 2901, 2903, 9080, 29203, 29116, K5, K6, Duron, Athlon
MCU's  
Bit-Slice  
 

Memory Devices

RAM  
ROM  
PROM  
EPROM  
EEPROM  
CCD Memory  
Bubble Memory  
 

General Use Support Chips

Shift Registers  
Interfaces  
Communications  

Second Sourced Chips

 

Microprocessors

CPU's

Intel:  8080, 8085, 8086, 8089, 8088, 80186, 8188, 80286

Zilog:  Z8001, Z8002

MCU's Intel:  8048, 8051
Bit-Slice  
 

Memory Devices

RAM  
ROM  
PROM  
EPROM  
EEPROM  
CCD Memory  
Bubble Memory  
 

General Use Support Chips

Shift Registers  
Interfaces  
Communications  

 

  

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Last updated: September 28, 2004.