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This article gives a list of AMD microprocessors, sorted by generation and release year.If applicable and openly known, the designation(s) of each processor's core (versions) is (are) listed in parentheses.
Following AMD's 2006 acquisition of Canadian graphics company ATI Technologies, an initiative codenamed Fusion was announced to integrate a CPU and GPU together on some of AMD's microprocessors, including a built in PCI Express link to accommodate separate PCI Express peripherals, eliminating the northbridge chip from the motherboard.
The UMI interface previously used by AMD for communicating with the FCH is replaced with a PCIe connection. Technically the processor can operate without a chipset; it only continues to be present for interfacing with low speed I/O. AMD server CPUs adopt a self contained system on chip design instead which doesn't require a chipset. [11] [12 ...
AMD K6 – the K6 was not based on the K5 and was instead based on the Nx686 processor that was being designed by NexGen when that company was bought by AMD. The K6 was generally pin-compatible with the Intel Pentium (unlike NexGen's existing processors). AMD K6-2 – an improved K6 with the addition of the 3DNow! SIMD instructions.
AMD K5: SSA/5, 5k86 1 No 75–133 50, 60, 66 FSB 8+16 0 Socket 5 Socket 7: discrete: K6 350, 250 AMD K6: Model 6, Littlefoot 1 No 166–300 50, 60, 66 FSB 32+32 0 Socket 7: discrete: MMX + MMX: 250, 180 AMD K6-2: Chomper, Chomper Extended, mobile 166–550 66, 95, 97, 100 FSB 32+32 0, 128 Super Socket 7: MMX, 3DNow! + 3DNow! 250, 180 K6-3 ...
The acquisition of ATI in 2006 was important to AMD's strategic development of its Fusion series of computer processors, which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within a single chip, which would become a popular option on computers in the following years, especially lower cost models.
The company was founded in 1986 by Thampy Thomas, being funded by Compaq, ASCII and Kleiner Perkins.Its first design was targeted at the 80386 generation of processors. But the design was so large and complicated it could only be implemented using eight chips instead of one and by the time it was ready, the industry had moved onto the 80486 generation.
AMD announced a new series of processors on December 13, 2016, named "Ryzen", and delivered them in Q1 2017, [4] the first of several generations. The 1000 series featured up to eight cores and sixteen threads, with a +52 percent instructions per cycle (IPC) increase over their prior CPU products, namely AMD's previous Excavator microarchitecture.