AMD roadmap over the years
AMD is a very big company when it comes to processor and graphics cards. It had its own foundry named as global foundry till the last year but because of the costs and the losses AMD needed to sell it. We will be discussing about the AMD as a company roadmap over the last few decades.
When Pentium one was ruling the market AMD comes with a copy of that architecture and as it was a copy it wasn’t that much successful. Pentium brand have a great history in the personal computer market AS WE know that. Pentium 1 , Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 have seen great market and popularity along with the Celeron brand. Intel’s table turned around when the Pentium 4 came into the market because of the AMD. AMD introduced the Athelon family and Athelon FX family and enjoyed the market for few years. After that Intel introduced the Core 2 Duo architecture and from there onwards Intel has the crown of the fastest processors in the market. It followed with the Core I processor family and now with the sandy bridge family. So where were AMD that time?
AMD wasn’t too much behind they acquired ATI a leading graphics company and now its number 1 in the graphics market. AMD introduced the Phenom architecture which unfortunately failed to succeed and needed a major overhaul. AMD’s phenom 2 architecture is good and giving fight to the core 2 duos in every segment but sandy bridge is going to have phenomenal success because of the processing technology. AMD suffered a blow when it had to separate the global foundry from them but then also losses are continued for the company.
AMD is seeing its future in the Fusion technology which includes the APU as the processor plus graphics processor unit. We are not sure about where it can go but hoping that Intel will have AMD as the strongest competitor because that keeps the prices low on every front.
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