History will be kind to Barcelona
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 by PPV
'History will be kind to Barcelona,' said Randy Allen, who leads AMD's server business and predicts industry-leading success for the chip.
And speaking of history, here's a list of Historic AMD chips
And speaking of history, here's a list of Historic AMD chips
- 1991 — Longhorn, AMD's reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 80386 processor, runs faster than Intel versions. The effort gets AMD back in the Microsoft-compatible chip business after Intel had shut the door.
- 1994 — The 486 clone is launched amid a storm of lawsuits between AMD and Intel. AMD makes its chips run faster than Intel's.
- 1996 — K5, AMD's first shot at a Windows-compatible chip of its own design, doesn't run fast and isn't competitive with Intel's Pentium. The chip's flaws force AMD to buy start-up NexGen Inc., which has a competitive design to Pentium.
- 1997 — K6, based on the NexGen design,
- is introduced, putting AMD back in the game again.
- 1999 — K7, formally known as Athlon, is launched and competes well with Intel's desktop chips. Intel and AMD race to put out the first Windows-compatible chip to run at 1 gigahertz. AMD wins.
- 2003 — Opteron is AMD's first processor that is directly aimed at advanced servers and the first to process data in 64-bit chunks. After a slow start, it becomes a hit.
- 2005 — Dual-Core Opteron is launched, and AMD's success in the lucrative server market rises to new heights.
- 2007 — Code-named Barcelona, AMD's first quad-core processor, debuts.
