Advanced Micro Devices AMD Work performed Student 31

Advanced Micro Devices AMD Work performed: Student 31 -KD Sergei Podpovedny

COMPANY HISTORY AMD was founded May 1, 1969 Jerry Sanders and seven of his friends. Start-up capital was $ 100, 000. The company started as a manufacturer of logic integrated circuits. The first microprocessor was the Am 9080 - clone 8080, issued under license Intel. In 1975, AMD released the first chip RAM AM 1902. AMD announced a merger with ATI Technologies July 24, 2006. AMD paid $ 5. 4 billion merger was completed oktyabrya 2006 25 years, and became part of the ATI AMD. According to the December 2006 AMD with his main rival in the graphics Nvidia received a subpoena from the U. S. Justice Department for suspicion of violating antitrust laws in the field of graphics cards, in particular price fixing. In October 2008, AMD announced plans to allocate billions on a joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment, an investment company established by the Government of Abu Dhabi. The new company is called Global. Foundries. This enabled AMD to focus solely on chips

THE COMPANE‘S ACTIVITIES The company specializes in the internal computer is individually processors and video cards. AMD is upgrading and new technologies. Active changes begin with 2002 goda In June 2005, have been released by AMD dual-core Athlon 64 X 2 In 2007 the company began production of its AMD graphics chips based on designs ATI. In 2007 appeared the first quad-core AMD Phenom X 4 In 2009, the new AMD Socket AM 3 processors In 2010, AMD released April 26 the first six-core desktop processors Phenom II X 6, is compatible with the Socket AM 2 + and Socket AM 3. In 2011, AMD released a new processor microarchitecture Bulldozer.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The first quad-core AMD Phenom. X 4, competitors early Intel Core 2 Quad. In 2009, with the transition to the new Socket AM 3 processors AMD acquired memory support DDR 3, which made it possible to install the motherboard up to 16 GB of RAM. In 2010, AMD released April 26 the first six-core desktop processors Phenom II X 6, is compatible with the Socket AM 2 + and Socket AM 3. As of this time, these processors are the competitors in the first place, the processors manufactured by Intel Core i 5 and Core i 7. In 2011, AMD released a new processor microarchitecture Bulldozer-this microarchitecture gives good hope for the further development of the company

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