The word CPU or Processor comes to mind as soon as anyone who uses a computer remembers Intel. But AMD, which has seen a rapid rise in recent years, last year created a processor that surpassed Intel's capabilities in every way. As a result, AMD is set to record its highest share value since 2020 in 2007. This explains how AMD, which was on the list of companies that could go bankrupt in 2010, has revived. Formation of AMD The world's first integrated circuit (IC) (Integrated Circuit) was invented in 1961 by Fairchild Semiconductor. Two young engineers joined NM Electronics in 1968. A few weeks later it changed its name to Integrated Electronics or Intel, and a year later eight more left Fairchild Semiconductor. The company they started together is Advanced Micro Devices or AMD. Intel builds its first processor, the 8080 processor, in 1974. AMD, which studies its photography more closely, develops a processor similar to the 8080 as the Am-9080. Today it can be termed as intellectual property theft, but instead the two companies entered into an agreement. Accordingly, AMD was allowed to reproduce the processor manufactured by Intel. Intel hoped to promote its products and maintain productivity even in the event of an emergency. In 1982, Intel began production of x86 architecture processors. The model of the processor determines which software processor can run and which hardware processor is supported. AMD also became a major processor supplier for IBM computers, with IBM deciding to use x86 processors for their first "personal computers (PC)". But Intel is no longer prepared to continue its deal. IBM will increase its market share from 55% to 84%, while Intel will cancel AMD's access to its latest processors. The complexity of the later Intel 386 and 486 processors made it difficult for AMD to disassemble and redesign them. Accordingly, they turned to their own processor production in 1996. The K5 processor was the first processor to be developed by AMD on its own. Being a 133 MHz processor, it was a threat to Intel's first Pentium processors. Created by AMD in 1997, the K6 processor is arguably the most processor they've ever mastered in the computer world. In particular, the 1998 K6-II model competed with the Pentium II and the K6-III model with the Pentium III. According to statistics, the K6-II processor made up almost 70% of the computers on the PC market for less than $ 1,000 at the time.
Released in 2003, the K8 processor is the first x86-64 model to be introduced to the world. AMD64 is still used today to refer to the "Instruction Sets" of processors created by both companies. AMD also introduced the first multi-core technology to the world. Introduced by AMD in 2005, the Athlon 64 X2 processor had dual-core dual-core dual-core cache memory. This is the beginning of the decline of AMD, the world's leading processor maker. One direct reason for this is that some of the company's top executives and shortcomings in the new processor models introduced introduced AMD's continued collapse until 2016. During 2006, Intel's products also had significant problems. Realizing that their latest processor model could no longer be upgraded, they went back to upgrading their old Pentium model and began launching their products under the Core name. Three days before Intel's introduction of the Core 2 Duo processor in 2006, AMD announced that it had acquired ATI Technologies, a graphics card maker, for $ 5.4 billion. ATI's assets were only the intellectual property they owned. They did not even have a factory to make graphic cards. As a result, AMD will soon have to sell ATI to Qualcomm for as little as $ 65 million. In 2007, AMD introduced the 4-core K10 processor. It will not be able to surpass Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, which was already very popular in the world. All the cores in the K10 were housed in the same CPU die. While this is said to provide a theoretical higher "counting speed", showing a speed of 100MHz lower than the Q6600 used by the two die was a setback for AMD. The so-called name also contributed to the low purchases of the K10 processor. AMD decided to name the processor Phenom instead of the popular Athlon until Intel began introducing its processor as Core instead of Pentium.
It got two cores common FPU, Level-1 cache and Level-2 cache each. By doing this they hoped to reduce the power consumption of the processor. Accordingly, the AMD FX-8510 released in 2011 had 4 modules. Because each module had two cores, they introduced it as an 8-core and 8-thread processor. The Core i7-2600K processor introduced by Intel that year had only 4 cores. They used Hyper Threading technology so it consisted of 8 threads. The Intel processor, which required 30W less power than their processor, surpassed the AMD processor, disappointing AMD. Since then, Intel has released better processors year after year. The improvements made to the FX processors did not outweigh the Intel. As a result, AMD suffered millions of dollars in losses from 2012 to 2016. Despite the success of their Jaguar model processors for the Xbox and PlayStation, the revenue generated was not enough to sustain the crash of processor products for the PC. In 2014, Rory Read resigned as head of AMD, handing over the reins to Professor Lisa Su. Lisa, an American immigrant born in Taiwan, holds a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from M.I.T. Prior to joining AMD, she was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, where she was General Manager of Free-scale Semiconductor and Head of Semiconductor at IBM. Under her, Jim Keller, who led the design of the K8 processor, became the head of research and development at AMD. Under the new leadership, AMD will take steps in 2017 to launch a new processor model called the Zen. The main purpose of this model was to produce high-capacity processors at an affordable price and to increase the core value from 4 to 64, but also to process processors that could be easily made. The first Zen processor line was released on March 2, 2017 and was called Ryzen. During the period 2014-2017, no processor manufacturer was able to challenge Intel. As a result, their processors did not show much improvement in each other, which led consumers to have high hopes for the Ryzen 1000 processor. Correcting memory errors, Ryzen released the second-generation processor with the Zen plus model, which showed some sales. Intel introduced the Coffee Lake model in 2017, replacing the Skylake model introduced in 2015. In 2018, the company further improved the model and introduced the 9900K with 8 cores and 16 threads with the i9 processor model. In response, AMD introduced the Zen-2 model in 2019, with its Ryzen 9 3900X processor easily surpassing Intel's i9-9900K in terms of multi-core. Intel processor was far ahead in terms of single core capability. As a result, Intel claims to be the world's best processor maker. Single Core outperformed Intel's processors in both. The Ryzen 9-5900X processor is about 10% more efficient on both the Multi Core and Single Core sections than the Core i9-10900K processor. In April 2020, AMD had a 21.7% share of the global processor market, while Intel had a 78.3% share. By January 2021, AMD had increased its ownership to 29% and Intel had reduced its value to 70%. Undoubtedly able to take.