AMD Celebrates its 55th Birthday

[btarunr]

AMD is now a 55-year-old company. The chipmaker was founded on May Day, 1969, and traversed practically every era of digital computing to reach where it is today—a company that makes contemporary processors for PCs, servers, and consumer electronics; GPUs for gaming graphics, professional visualization, and the all important AI HPC processors that are driving the latest era of computing. As of this writing, AMD has a market capitalization of over $237 billion, presence in all market regions, and supplies hardware and services to nearly every Fortune 500 company, including every IT giant. Happy birthday, AMD!



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[Audioave10]

Congrats to AMD! I still like them overall. Hopefully, they get to be as old as I am.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Seems only yesterday that we got the 50th anniversary 2700X "signed by Lisa Su" and that golden RX 590 Nitro from Sapphire. Wonder if there will be any commemorative products this time around.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Thank you AMD, if it were not for you, we would still be rocking 4 Cores 8 Threads.

 

[Hyderz]

Cheers AMD, i had the K6-2 and Athlon XP, might be swinging amd after a few more years with my current intel

 

[Chaitanya]

Congrats and they have quite a colourful history.

 

[bonehead123]

Congrats to AMD, and looking forward to anutha 55 or more !

I just wish I could remember when I was that young

 

[A Computer Guy]

Seems only yesterday that we got the 50th anniversary 2700X "signed by Lisa Su" and that golden RX 590 Nitro from Sapphire. Wonder if there will be any commemorative products this time around.

Lisa Su 9950x dual CCD X3D cache edition would be nice.

 

[murr]

Jerry Sanders deserves some credit for keeping them alive when everyone was proclaiming they were dead.

 

[Wirko]

Wonder if there will be any commemorative products this time around.

PlayStation 5.5?

 

[Dragokar]

Cheers AMD, i had the K6-2 and Athlon XP, might be swinging amd after a few more years with my current intel

The K6-2 350 Mhz was my first own CPU after the parent's PC

 

[64K]

Happy birthday AMD and hoping there will be many more.

Jerry Sanders deserves some credit for keeping them alive when everyone was proclaiming they were dead.

There were years when it looked bleak indeed for AMD financially. Their share price fell to around $1.60 and their market cap was around 2 billion USD. They had crushing debt without much hope of ever being able to repay it. Their company's net worth was less than what they paid for ATI back in 2006. They had sold off their fab and even their office spaces and rented them back. They were drowning in red ink to the tune of hundreds of millions USD yearly. Some Financial Analysts were saying that they could not recover.

But somehow out of those ashes they came back strong mostly due to their CPU division and have a bright future today.

 

[Philaphlous]

Big whop. Stock price is way down today on the news of lower than expected future AI sales.... Time to get working on R&D!

 

[Fouquin]

Big whop. Stock price is way down today on the news of lower than expected future AI sales.... Time to get working on R&D!

Stock-jockeys know nothing and are a reactionary and fickle animal. If they see their shadow in the morning they'll shout doom and gloom.

 

[tpuuser256]

Happy birthday AMD and hoping there will be many more.



There were years when it looked bleak indeed for AMD financially. Their share price fell to around $1.60 and their market cap was around 2 billion USD. They had crushing debt without much hope of ever being able to repay it. Their company's net worth was less than what they paid for ATI back in 2006. They had sold off their fab and even their office spaces and rented them back. They were drowning in red ink to the tune of hundreds of millions USD yearly. Some Financial Analysts were saying that they could not recover.

But somehow out of those ashes they came back strong mostly due to their CPU division and have a bright future today.

Nice story, shows it's important to not give up on your dreams

 

[QuietBob]

Happy birthday AMD and stay fit! We need competition in the CPU space.
My very first PC had an AMD processor, the Am386DX 40 MHz. It was the fastest 386-class CPU and competed well with entry-level 486 machines.
Of course I had no idea it was made by AMD at that time

 

[GreiverBlade]

my first CPU in a system i built myself was a K6-2 ... and my, now, all time favorite CPU ever is the R7 5800X3D i have in my current rig ...

happy birthday AMD ... you are only 13yrs older than i am

i went thru many CPUs from many, dead and also still alive, brands ... seeing AMD still going strong it making me all fluttery ... being, more often than not, budget limited ... AMD delivered with each CPU i got ...

K6, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Athlon X2, Phenom II, FX (yeah ... i have still fond memories of my FX 6300) A series APU and now Ryzen, thanks AMD

 

[Wirko]

My very first PC had an AMD processor, the Am386DX 40 MHz.

Hi! That was my second processor, after an Intel 80286-12 and before a Pentium 90. Therefore it was the last one that didn't need a heatsink, and also the only one that was soldered down.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Happy Birthday AMD! Here's to another 55 years!

 

[Abaidor]

Who would have thought........
Intel Market Cap $130 Billion
AMD Market Cap $233 Billion..........

 

[QuietBob]

K6, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Athlon X2, Phenom II, FX (yeah ... i have still fond memories of my FX 6300) A series APU and now Ryzen

I went a very similar route, and for similar reasons. Had an Am386DX, two Athlons XP, an Athlon II, two Phenoms II, an FX, a Ryzen 3 and a Ryzen 7. The last three are in active use, and a Phenom II is powering my XP machine.

Plus some dozen Socket 754 and AM2 CPUs bought past their prime for various retro projects

 

[Daven]

Happy bday AMD. Go out and get drunk on me. Send the tap to 2200 Mission College Boulevard.

 

[natr0n]

always used amd since my 1st build athlon xp till now. After phenom II x6 I bought an outdated 2600k for a few years,then played around with dual xeons then went back on track with ryzens.

 

[AusWolf]

Seems only yesterday that we got the 50th anniversary 2700X "signed by Lisa Su" and that golden RX 590 Nitro from Sapphire. Wonder if there will be any commemorative products this time around.

The Ryzen 5 5500GT is supposed to launch this year, isn't it?

 

[Space Lynx]

Thank you AMD, if it were not for you, we would still be rocking 4 Cores 8 Threads.

I actually had forgotten about this. Good point, I think GPU's would have stagnated too without them poking Nvidia a bit over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if RTX 2080 would be the best GPU we have right now if AMD had went out of of business in 2015 or so when it's stock price was like $1 a share and rumors are it was about to collapse. I almost bought stock then too, because I thought it would have a comeback story. Damn, what an idiot I was for not buying any.