List of AMD Microprocessors

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AMD-originated architectures

Am2900 series (1975)

• Am2901 4-bit-slice ALU (1975)
• Am2902 Look-Ahead Carry Generator
• Am2903 4-bit-slice ALU, with hardware multiply
• Am2904 Status and Shift Control Unit
• Am2905 Bus Transceiver
• Am2906 Bus Transceiver with Parity
• Am2907 Bus Transceiver with Parity
• Am2908 Bus Transceiver with Parity
• Am2909 4-bit-slice address sequencer
• Am2910 12-bit address sequencer
• Am2911 4-bit-slice address sequencer
• Am2912 Bus Transceiver
• Am2913 Priority Interrupt Expander
• Am2914 Priority Interrupt Controller

29000 (29K) (1987–95)

• AMD 29000 (aka 29K) (1987)+
• AMD 29005 Above without (functional) MMU and BTC
• AMD 29027 FPU
• AMD 29030
• AMD 29050 with on-chip FPU (1990)
• AMD 292xx embedded processor

Non-x86 architecture processors

2nd source (1974)

Am9080

2nd source (1982)

Am29X305 (second source for Signetics 8X305)

x86 architecture processors

2nd source (1979–91)

(second-sourced x86 processors produced under contract with Intel)

• 8086
• 8088
• Am286 (2nd-sourced 80286, so not a proper Amx86 member)

Amx86 series (1991–95)

• Am386 (1991)
• Am486 (1993)
• Am5x86 (1995)

K5 architecture (1995)

• AMD K5 (SSA5/5k86)

K6 architecture (1997–2001)

• AMD K6 (NX686/Little Foot) (1997)
• AMD K6-2 (Chompers/CXT)
  • AMD K6-2-P (Mobile K6-2)
• AMD K6-III (Sharptooth)
  • AMD K6-III-P
• AMD K6-2+
• AMD K6-III+

K7 architecture (1999–2005)

• Athlon (Slot A) (Argon, Pluto/Orion, Thunderbird) (1999)
• Athlon (Socket A) (Thunderbird) (2000)
• Duron (Spitfire, Morgan, Applebred) (2000)
• Athlon MP (Palomino, Thoroughbred, Barton, Thorton) (2001)
• Mobile Athlon 4 (Corvette/Mobile Palomino) (2001)
• Athlon XP (Palomino, Thoroughbred (A/B), Barton, Thorton) (2001)
• Mobile Athlon XP (Mobile Palomino) (2002)
• Mobile Duron (Camaro/Mobile Morgan) (2002)
• Sempron (Thoroughbred, Thorton, Barton) (2004)
• Mobile Sempron

K8 core architecture

K8 series (2003–)

• Opteron (SledgeHammer) (2003)
• Athlon 64 FX (SledgeHammer) (2003)
• Athlon 64 (ClawHammer/Newcastle) (2003)
• Mobile Athlon 64 (Newcastle) (2004)
• Athlon XP-M (Dublin) (2004) Note: AMD64 disabled
• Sempron (Paris) (2004) Note: AMD64 disabled
• Athlon 64 (Winchester) (2004)
• Turion 64 (Lancaster) (2005)
• Athlon 64 FX (San Diego) (1st half 2005)
• Athlon 64 (San Diego/Venice) (1st half 2005)
• Sempron (Palermo) (1st half 2005)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Manchester) (1st half 2005)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Toledo) (1st half 2005)
• Athlon 64 FX (Toledo) (2nd half 2005)
• Turion 64 X2 (Taylor) (1st half 2006)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Windsor) (1st half 2006)
• Athlon 64 FX (Windsor) (1st half 2006)
• Athlon 64 X2 (Brisbane) (2nd half 2006)
• Athlon 64 (Orleans) (2nd half 2006)
• Sempron (Manila) (1st half 2006)
• Sempron (Sparta)
• Opteron (Santa Rosa)
• Opteron (Santa Ana)
• Mobile Sempron

K10 core architecture

K10 series CPUs (2007-)

• Opteron (Barcelona) (10 September 2007)
• Phenom FX (Agena FX) (Q1 2008)
• Phenom X4 (9-series) (Agena) (19 November 2007)
• Phenom X3 (8-series) (Toliman) (April 2008)
• Athlon 6-series (Kuma) (February 2007)
• Athlon 4-series (Kuma) (2008)
• Athlon X2 (Rana) (Q4 2007)
• Sempron (Spica)
• Opteron (Budapest)
• Opteron (Shanghai)
• Opteron (Magny-Cours)
• Phenom II (X4 in January 8, 2009, X6 in April 27, 2010)
• Athlon II
• Turion II (Caspian)

K10 series APUs (2011-)

• Llano AMD Fusion (K10 cores + Redwood-class GPU) (launch Q2 2011)

Bulldozer module architecture

Bulldozer series CPUs (2011–)

• Interlagos Opteron (Bulldozer core) (launch Q4 2011)
• Zambezi (Bulldozer core) (launch Q4 2011)
• Vishera (Piledriver core) (launch Q4 2012)

Bobcat core architecture

Bobcat series APUs (2011-)

• Ontario (Bobcat cores + Cedar-class GPU) (launch Q1 2011)
• Zacate (Bobcat cores + Cedar-class GPU) (launch Q1 2011)

Jaguar core architecture

Jaguar series CPUs (2013-)

Advanced Micro Devices

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American worldwide semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While initially it manufactured its own processors, the company became fabless after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers, and embedded systems applications.
Advanced Micro Devices was formally incorporated on May 1, 1969, by Jerry Sanders, along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor. Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had like many Fairchild executives grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within that company, and decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company.

Processor History

• IBM PC and the x86 architecture
• K5, K6, Athlon, Duron and Sempron
• Athlon 64, Opteron and Phenom
• Fusion, Bobcat, Bulldozer, Vishera, and Hondo

     For the entire list See List of AMD Microprocessors.

Products and technologies

• Graphics Products
• Radeon – Brand for consumer line of graphics cards.
• AMD FirePro – Brand for professional line of graphics cards for workstations.
• AMD FireStream – Brand for discontinued product line targeting stream processing and GPGPU as used in various industries.
• AMD FireMV – Brand for discontinued product line targeting multi-monitor setups in professional environments.
• As of 2015^[update] technologies found in AMD products include:
• AMD Eyefinity – Facilitates multi-monitor setup of up to 6 monitors per graphics card
• AMD TrueAudio – Acceleration of audio calculations
• Unified Video Decoder (UVD) – Acceleration of video decoding
• Video Coding Engine (VCE) – Acceleration of video encoding
• AMD chipsets
• AMD Live!
• AMD Quad FX platform
• Server platform
• Desktop platforms
• Embedded systems

Litigation

• In 1986, Intel broke an agreement it had with AMD to allow them to produce Intel's micro-chips for IBM; AMD filed for arbitration in 1987 and the arbitrator decided in AMD's favor in 1992. Intel disputed this, and the case ended up in the Supreme Court of California. In 1994, that court upheld the arbitrator's decision and awarded damages for breach of contract.
• In 1990, Intel brought a copyright infringement action alleging illegal use of its 287 microcode. The case ended in 1994 with a jury finding for AMD and its right to use Intel's microcode in its microprocessors through the 486 generation.
• In 1997, Intel filed suit against AMD and Cyrix Corp. for misuse of the term MMX. AMD and Intel settled, with AMD acknowledging MMX as a trademark owned by Intel, and with Intel granting AMD rights to market the AMD K6 MMX processor.
• In 2005, following an investigation, the Japan Federal Trade Commission found Intel guilty on a number of violations. On June 27, 2005, AMD won an antitrust suit against Intel in Japan, and on the same day, AMD filed a broad antitrust complaint against Intel in the U.S. Federal District Court in Delaware. The complaint alleges systematic use of secret rebates, special discounts, threats, and other means used by Intel to lock AMD processors out of the global market. Since the start of this action, the court has issued subpoenas to major computer manufacturers including Acer, Dell, Lenovo, HP and Toshiba.
• In November 2009, Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25bn and renew a five-year patent cross-licensing agreement as part of a deal to settle all outstanding legal disputes between them.

Record Achievement

On August 31, 2011, in Austin, Texas, AMD achieved a Guinness World Record for the "Highest frequency of a computer processor": 8.429 GHz. The company ran an 8-core FX-8150 processor with only one active module (two cores), and cooled with liquid helium. The previous record was 8.308 GHz, with an Intel Celeron 352 (one core).   

Dr. Charles Geschke

Name : Dr. Charles Geschke
DOB : September 11, 1939
Fields : Computer science
Alma Mater : Carnegie Mellon University, Xavier University
Famous For : Adobe Systems
PostScript
Awards : Medal of Achievement from the American Electronics Association in 2006
Marconi Prize (2010)
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from John Carroll University

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About

Dr. Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock, driving technology innovations that forever transformed how people create and consume content across every screen. A respected and inspiring industry leader, Geschke was instrumental in developing some of the software industry’s most pioneering technologies.
Through his vision and passion, Geschke helped build Adobe from a start-up into one of the world’s largest software companies. Today, he and Warnock are co-chairmen of Adobe's board of directors and continue to shape direction for the company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue.
Geschke has served as chairman of the board with Warnock since September 1997. He was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 until July 1994 and president from April 1989 until his retirement in April 2000. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and was a principal scientist and researcher at Xerox PARC's Computer Sciences Laboratory.
Among many awards, Geschke, along with Warnock, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors.  Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a master's degree in mathematics and an A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University.

Quick facts

• Has served as chairman of the board since 1997
• Previously served as president
• Prior to co-founding Adobe, formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Xerox PARC
• Holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon and a master's degree in mathematics and an A.B. in classics from Xavier University

Dr. John Warnock.

Chairman of the Board
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Name - John Edward Warnock
DOB - October 6, 1940
Alma Mater - University of Utah
Fields : Computer Science
Famous For - Adobe Systems
                        PostScript
                        Portable Document Format (PDF)
Awards - Software Systems Award (1989, Assosiation for Computing Machinery);
Edwin H. Land Medal (2000, Optical Society of America; Bodley Medal (2003, Bodleian Library at Oxford University);
Lovelace Medal (2004, British Computer Society);
Medal of Achievement (2006, AeA);
Computer Entrepreneur Award (2008, IEEE Computer Society);
United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009), Marconi Prize (2010)

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About

Dr. John Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke. The two have worked closely together to develop a stream of pioneering software products that have established Adobe as a leader and innovator in digital experiences across every screen.
For nearly three decades, Warnock's vision and passion have been integral to Adobe's success, building the company from a small start-up to one of the largest, most recognized software brands in the world. He was president of Adobe for the company's first two years and CEO for the next 16 years. Warnock retired as CEO in 2000 and as the company's CTO in 2001. Today, he is co-chairman of the board with Geschke, continuing to shape direction for the company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue.
Before co-founding Adobe, Warnock was a principal scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  Prior to joining Xerox, he held key positions at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM and the University of Utah.
Among many awards, Warnock, along with Geschke, was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors.  Warnock holds a doctorate in electrical engineering (computer science), a master's degree in mathematics and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He was also awarded an honorary degree in science from the University of Utah.

Quick facts

• Has served as chairman of the board since 1984
• Previously served as company CEO and chief technology officer
• Prior to co-founding Adobe, held key positions at Xerox PARC, Evans & Sutherland, Computer Sciences Corp. and University of Utah
• Holds a doctorate in electrical engineering, a master's degree in mathematics and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Utah

 

Adobe Systems

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Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. Adobe was founded in February 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.
As of 2015, Adobe Systems has about 13,500 employees, about 40% of whom work in San Jose.

Products

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Desktop software

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Audition

Server software

Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Content Server and Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, Adobe BlazeDS

Formats

Portable Document Format (PDF), PDF's predecessor PostScript, ActionScript, Shockwave Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), and Filmstrip (.flm)

Web-hosted services

Adobe Kuler, Photoshop Express, and Acrobat.com

Web design programs

Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Muse, Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Edge

Video editing and visual effects

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Prelude, and Adobe SpeedGrade

eLearning software

Adobe Captivate

Web content management Software

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.0), Mixamo

Awards

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• Since 1995, Fortune has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work.
• Adobe was rated the 5th best U.S. company to work for in 2003, 6th in 2004, 31st in 2007, 40th in 2008, 11th in 2009, 42nd in 2010, 65th in 2011, 41st in 2012, and 83rd in 2013.
• In 2015, Adobe Systems India was ranked 21st of great places to work in India. In June 2014, it was ranked 6th of great places to work in India.
• In October 2008, Adobe Systems Canada Inc. was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.
• Adobe ranked no. 5 on a list of Internet’s 9 Most Hated Companies, based on a 2013 survey on Reddit.com.
• Adobe's Reader and Flash were listed on The 10 most hated programs of all time on TechRadar.com.

The Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is located in the state of California. It is home to hundreds of start-up and global tech companies with Google, Apple and Facebook among the most prominent.

The word "Silicon" originally referred to the large number of Silicon Chip Innovators and manufacturers in the region whereas "Valley" refers to the Santa Clara Valley where the region has traditionally been centered.

Silicon Valley is a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and development. It was in Silicon Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed.

Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Among those, the following are in the Fortune 1000:

Apple Inc

Cisco Systems

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)





Adobe System









eBay



Intel



Intuit



Nvidia







Yahoo!



Oracle

Sun Microsystems

Adobe Systems

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Agilent Technologies

Alphabet Inc.

Apple Inc.

Applied Materials

Brocade Communications Systems

Cisco Systems

eBay

Electronic Arts

Facebook

Google

Hewlett-Packard

Intel

Intuit

Juniper Networks

KLA Tencor

Lockheed Martin

LSI Logic

Marvell Semiconductors

Maxim Integrated Products

National Semiconductor

NetApp

Netflix

Nvidia

Oracle Corporation

Salesforce.com

SanDisk

Sanmina-SCI

Symantec

Western Digital Corporation

Xilinx

Yahoo!

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Additional notable companies headquartered (or with a significant presence) in Silicon Valley include (some defunct or subsumed):

• 3Com (acquired by HP)
• 8x8
• Actel
• Actuate Corporation
• Adaptec
• Aeria Games and Entertainment
• Akamai Technologies (HQ in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Altera
• Amazon.com's A9.com
• Amazon.com's Lab126.com
• Amdahl
• Aricent
• AstraQom
• Asus (headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan)
• Atari
• Atmel
• Broadcom (headquartered in Irvine, California)
• BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
• Cadence Design Systems
• Cypress Semiconductor
• Dell (headquartered in Round Rock, Texas)
• EMC Corporation (headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
• Extreme Networks
• E*TRADE (headquartered in New York, NY)
• Fairchild Semiconductor
• Foundry Networks
• Fujitsu (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan)
• Groupon (headquartered in Chicago, IL)
• HCL Technologies (headquartered in Noida, India)
• Hitachi Data Systems
• Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
• IBM Almaden Research Center (headquartered in Armonk, New York)
• Infosys (headquartered in Bangalore, India)
• IDEO
• Informatica
• Intuitive Surgical
• Kerio Technologies
• LinkedIn
• Logitech
• Maxtor (acquired by Seagate)
• McAfee (acquired by Intel)
• Memorex (acquired by Imation and moved to Cerritos, California)
• MetricStream
• Micron Technology (headquartered in Boise, Idaho)
• Microsoft (headquartered in Redmond, Washington)
• Mozilla Foundation
• Move, Inc.
• Nokia (headquartered in Espoo, Finland)
• Nokia Solutions and Networks (headquartered in Espoo, Finland)
• NXP Semiconductors
• Nook (subsidiary of Barnes & Noble)
• Olivetti (headquartered in Ivrea, Italy)
• Opera Software (headquartered in Oslo, Norway)
• OPPO
• Palm, Inc. (acquired by HP)
• Panasonic (headquartered in Osaka, Japan)
• PARC
• PayPal (it has been demerged from Ebay)
• Pixar
• Playdom
• PlayPhone
• Qualcomm, Inc. (HQ in San Diego, CA)
• Quanta Computer
• Quantcast
• Quora
• Rambus
• RSA (acquired by EMC)
• Samsung Electronics (headquartered in Suwon, Korea)
• SAP AG (headquartered in Walldorf, Germany)
• Siemens (headquartered in Berlin and Munich, Germany)
• Sony (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan)
• Sony Ericsson
• SRI International
• Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
• SunPower
• SurveyMonkey
• Synopsys Inc.
• Tata Consultancy Services (headquartered in Mumbai, India)
• Tibco Software
• Tesla Motors
• TiVo
• TSMC
• Twitter
• VA Software (Slashdot)
• VeriSign
• Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec)
• VMware
• WebEx (acquired by Cisco Systems)
• @WalmartLabs (acquired by Walmart Global eCommerce)
• YouTube (acquired by Google)
• Yelp, Inc.
• Zynga