In order to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary, Intel has launched a series of activities, recently selected Intel's top 10 innovative technologies / products, including X86 processor, Moore's Law, USB interface, Ethernet and so on.
But don't forget that there is another company in the world called AMD. They are only one year behind Intel. The 49-year-old also made a lot of contributions to the PC industry. AMD also listed its own stack of innovative technologies, products, the core of which is AMD is the only company in the world with high-performance CPU and GPU..
In 1982, AMD signed an agreement with IBM to become the second supplier of X86 processors. Since then, X86 processor development and production have begun. Although Intel has always been a big brother in this respect, AMD is in the history of PC. I also made a lot of contributions. Here is AMD's list of innovations, but AMD has only improved its history since 2000. After all, everyone in the X86 market followed Intel's path.
In 2000, AMD introduced the first 1GHz processor. In 2003, AMD introduced the X86-64 instruction set. This should be the most important victory for AMD in years. In 2006, the first 1TFLOPS product was introduced, which means GPU, CPU has not yet achieved floating point performance of 1TFLOPS, in 2009 launched the first 1GHz frequency GPU, said HD 4890 graphics card.
Launched APU in 2011, won the host order in 2013, and sold the first $199 VR graphics card in 2016. This is the RX 480.
In the history of AMD's innovation, 2017 is clearly an important year, because the Zen architecture processor was released, AMD launched the first 16-core desktop processor (as if the Core i9 was released), and also got the best technology brand of the year, this year. Then introduced the second generation Ryzen processor.
AMD also mentioned some secrets that people don't know. For example, the display on New York Times Square uses AMD's GPU driver. Microsoft's Sony host processor is also provided by them. The Boeing aircraft's display system uses AMD embedded. Products, Apple's iMac also uses AMD's graphics card, and also obtained Microsoft, Sony and other companies' trusted technology partner certification and so on.
AMD's list of achievements is related to GPUs compared to Intel's list of technological innovations/products. AMD also acquired a high-performance GPU business after acquiring ATI in 2006. AMD has always been the only one in the world with a high-performance CPU. And high-performance GPU companies.
