AMD , the other chip company , is 40 years sometime today . It ’s the scrappy underdog to the Intel juggernaut . Today , it’snot in great shape , but at one point , it was actually beat up Intel on innovation .
• AMD tried to kill the megahertz myth before Intel . During the Pentium 4 days Intel kept pushing clock speeds high and higher , before it hit a walland vacate the Prescott architecture . The message was distinctly , “ more megahertz is more better . ” AMD ’s vie Athlon XP fleck , while clocked slower , oftenbeat their Pentium 4 competitor . Ironically , AMD was thefirst to 1GHz , as some commenters have manoeuver out ( do n’t love how I forgot that ) . Obviously though , AMD ’s performance Pb did n’t last everlastingly .
• AMD beat Intel to 64 - minute in mainstream computers . And we ’re not just talking about its Opteron and Athlon 64 CPU . AMD actuallydesigned the X86 - 64 specification , which Intel wind up adopting and licensing — so AMD ’s spec is used Intel ’s 64 - chip processors to this twenty-four hours .
• AMD was first to consider vigor efficiency in central processing unit designs . Okay , this is kind of an extension of point identification number one , but during Intel ’s Pentium 4 ‘ roid rage period AMD ’s processor systematically used less power than Intel’s . Intel ’s operation per watt revelationdidn’t really pop out untilthe Pentium M(which was actually a atavism to the P6 architecture ) , which put the tone for Intel ’s new steering in its successor , the Core line of chip .
• AMD perplex Intel to having an desegregate retention comptroller . A tech feature AMD lord over Intel for years : AMD ’s processors start integrate the memory controllerwith its processors year ago , reduce memory board latency . Intel ’s first splintering to use an integrated memory controlleris the Core i7 — before , the memory board controller wasseparate from the processor . ( Here ’s why Intel saysthey reserve off . )
Athlon XP and Athlon 64 — those were the estimable old days , AMD ’s cutthroat private-enterprise twenty-four hour period . The days they were ahead of Intel . I miss them — at one breaker point , every paw - built computer in my house run AMD processors . I sense like a rebel — a rebel with fast , crummy computers .
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