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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

Company Pedigree

 Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies
Company Comments Company Comments
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 (cloning Fairchild and National Semiconductor designs). AMD produced its first product in 1970. AMD started in logic chips and memory and moved into microprocessors with Intel clones and the 2901 bit-slice microprocessor. AMD signed a 10 year Second Source agreement with Intel in February of 1982, however, the road with Intel was rocky as competition became more intense.

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, 80286Zilog:  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