Make workboard columns queryable!
Building a cpu using 74 series logic was a required project in our undergraduate micro-architecture course. It was a fun time debugging the bread boards! First time we learnt the fact that voltage at one end of bread…
This is not the same company. AMD had fabs then (real men have fabs) which were spun out. Interestingly the headline in news now is that AMD stock more than doubled recently based on strong sales of GPUs and gaming :)…
This article is a recounting of public story. The real truth is much more nuanced with enough internal reasons (AMD veteran here). AMD made a lot of profits with the x86-64 (Opteron family) around 2004-2005. However,…
Make workboard columns queryable!
Building a cpu using 74 series logic was a required project in our undergraduate micro-architecture course. It was a fun time debugging the bread boards! First time we learnt the fact that voltage at one end of bread…
This is not the same company. AMD had fabs then (real men have fabs) which were spun out. Interestingly the headline in news now is that AMD stock more than doubled recently based on strong sales of GPUs and gaming :)…
This article is a recounting of public story. The real truth is much more nuanced with enough internal reasons (AMD veteran here). AMD made a lot of profits with the x86-64 (Opteron family) around 2004-2005. However,…