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In the next half month, Intel will celebrate its 50th anniversary, but Intel’s 50th birthday may be a bit bitter. The former CEO left the company because of a private scandal, leaving Intel with a chicken feather. The 50-year-old PC giant How to maintain the technological advantages, promote PC creation will be a great test for the future CEO. Fortunately, Intel is not lonely in the road ahead, AMD, who is two years old, has been in love with it for nearly 50 years, and will continue to entangle in the future.
In the history of Intel and AMD competition, AMD has always been a weak side. Regardless of revenue scale, product development, and production, the gap between the two sides is extremely large. In most cases, AMD is being pressed by Intel.
but In the decades of competition between the two sides, 'Warrior' AMD has also made important contributions to the development of processor innovation. If Intel does not pay attention, it will be turned over by AMD.
The Tomshardware website made an interesting little statistic, and selected AMD's 10 highlights in the history of processor innovation to see how they beat Intel in innovation.
· In 2000, AMD won the 1GHz processor frequency war
When most processors are still running at 500-850MHz, AMD's Athlon 1000 processor becomes the first 1GHz consumer processor. The Athlon 1000 codenamed Magnolia uses the K75 architecture, 0.18um process, and integrates 22 million units. Transistor, TDP 65W, using Slot-A slot, operating voltage is only 1.8V.
· 2003: Athlon 64 and 64 FX first integrated memory controller
AMD is not the first company to integrate memory masters in the processor. Transmeta's Crusoe series processor is the first, but AMD's Athlon 64 and later 64 FX still beat Intel with integrated memory controllers. Integrated memory mastering helps reduce system memory latency and improve performance. Intel first integrated memory mastering on the Nehalem architecture in 2008.
· 2003: AMD Athlon 64' sledgehammer' processor first 64-bit instruction set
Prior to AMD, the 64-bit instruction set processor was mainly used in the workstation and server areas. AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51 broke the situation. The code name Sledgehammer Sledgehammer is a 2.2GHz single-core processor, based on 0.13um SOI process production.
·2004: AMD Opteron paves the way for dual-core X86
Over time, computing tasks have become more complex, driving the need for higher performance processors. AMD realized two things in 2004—you can only squeeze these out of single-core processors. Performance, and single core will encounter frequency wall sooner or later, the solution is also very simple, that is to manufacture multi-core processor.
AMD's Austin facility has introduced a dual-core Opteron processor worldwide based on the 90nm SOI process, with Socket 940 slots and 233 million transistors.
·2011: AMD's FX-8150 was once the fastest processor in the world
Whether you are a fan of Bulldozer bulldozer architecture, it brings AMD a number of first. As early as 2011, AMD launched the FX processor of the bulldozer architecture. AMD also organized an elite overclocking expert team, FX The -8150 processor has advanced to a new height, eventually creating an overclocking frequency of 8429MHz. The Guinness World Records Organization has also issued AMD's record of 'computer processor maximum frequency' and has maintained it to this day.
·2011: FX-8150 becomes the world's first consumer 8-core processor
In the competition with Intel, AMD's FX-8150 is not only the most frequent processor, but also the consumer processor with the most core. This is the world's first consumer 8-core processor, 125W TDP power consumption, basic frequency 3.6GHz With an acceleration rate of up to 4.2 GHz, Globalfoundries uses 32nm SOI to produce up to 1.2 billion transistors.
·2011: AMD APU makes set game play a reality
Before the advent of AMD APU, Jixian already existed, but you can't use it to play games - at least not at a satisfactory frame rate and resolution. AMD's Llano is the first generation APU (PS: should For the desktop market, it integrates 2-4 HD 6000 series graphics cards, but its game performance is better than Intel set, but CPU performance is not satisfactory, until 2017 Raven Ridge family Ryzen APU comes out, you can provide stable game performance under 720p, if you set it properly, 1080p resolution is also available.
·2013: FX-9590 regains 5GHz championship
In 2013, AMD introduced the FX-9590 processor, which once again won Intel in the frequency war, the basic frequency is 4.7GHz, and the acceleration frequency is 5GHz. This is the first commercial frequency to reach 5GHz processor. Five years later, Intel released Core i7-8086K reaches the frequency of 5GHz.
However, tame FX-9590 processor is not easy, TDP power consumption is up to 220W, only a limited number of motherboards support this processor.
·2013: Temash, Kabini becomes the world's first X86 SoC processor
In 2013, the tablet processor market was very competitive. Most of the products on the market used ARM processors. AMD showed Temash and Kabini APU at CES. This is the first X86 SoC processor. Tesmash is 2 cores, 4 Nuclear APU, clocked at 1GHz, TDP is 4W, 8W, mainly used for Windows 8 tablet and hybrid notebook. Kabini also uses 2 core, 4 core architecture, frequency 1GHz to 2.2GHz, TDP is also higher, the minimum model is also 9W , up to more than 25W.
· 2017: Ryzen Threadripper 1950X brings more cores to the HEDT platform
Needless to say, everyone knows, AMD launched the Ryzen Threadripper processor last year, with up to 16 cores and 32 threads. It is the world's first desktop-class 16-core processor, including the flagship 1950X frequency of 3.4GHz, acceleration frequency of 4.0GHz, 180W. TDP supports four DDR4 memory channels and 64 PCIe 3.0 channels.
