However, it continued to use native x86 execution and ordinary microcode only, like Centaur's Winchip, unlike competitors Intel and AMD which introduced the method of dynamic translation to micro-operations with Pentium Pro and K5.

Intel and AMD have introduced features to their x86 processors to enable virtualization in hardware.

In 1997 AMD introduced 3DNow!

Intel and AMD have introduced x86 processors with hardware-based virtualization extensions that overcome the classical virtualization limitations of the x86 architecture.

After MMI succeeded with the 20-pin PAL parts, AMD introduced the 24-pin 22V10 PAL with additional features.

* Super Socket 7, a chip socket introduced by AMD

During that time, Dell acquired Alienware, which introduced several new items to Dell products, including AMD microprocessors.

In April 2005, AMD introduced its first multi-core Opterons.

AMD introduced three quad-core Opterons on Socket AM2 + for single-CPU servers in 2007.

AMD introduced three quad-core Opterons on Socket AM3 for single-CPU servers in 2009.

The Cyrix 5x86 design, however, should not be confused with the similarly named AMD Am5x86 which was essentially a fast 486 ( not an all-new design like the Cyrix part ) but which had broadly similar performance, used the same Socket 3, and was introduced at the end of the same year.

The Am5x86 processor is an x86-compatible CPU introduced in 1995 by AMD for use in 486-class computer systems.

AMD did likewise with some versions of their K5 processor, but abandoned the system when it introduced the K6.

In 2003, AMD introduced the Athlon 64-bit processor which, in addition to introducing 64-bit CPUs to the PC market, integrated the memory controller into the CPU, allowing direct communication between the processor and memory, a protocol termed " HyperTransport ".

The K6-2 was an x86 microprocessor introduced by AMD on May 28, 1998, and available in speeds ranging from 266 to 550 MHz.

In April 2005, AMD introduced a subset of SSE3 in revision E ( Venice and San Diego ) of their Athlon 64 CPUs.

For Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Fusion processors introduced in 2011, all of the functions of the northbridge reside on the CPU.

In 2008, both Intel ( Nehalem ) and AMD ( SVM ) have introduced tags as part of the TLB entry and dedicated hardware which checks the tag during lookup.

) So, in June 1983 AMD introduced the 22V10, a 24 pin device with 10 output logic macrocells.

After MMI succeeded with the 20-pin PAL parts introduced circa 1978, AMD introduced the 24-pin 22V10 PAL with additional features.

AMD introduced a similar family called PALCE.

AMD introduced their server LGA platform starting with the 2000-series Opteron in Q2 2006.

Later, AMD introduced the Sempron 3000 + CPU, based on the Barton core with 512 KiB L2 cache.

Had the AMD been allowed to depreciate to its market level, exports would have become more competitive and the purchasing power of the majority of the population who are dependent on remittances from abroad would have increased.

AMD designed the CPU with more robust x86 instruction decoding capabilities than that of K6, to enhance its ability to keep more data in-flight at once.

Whereas the AMD K6-III + topped out at 570 MHz due to its short pipeline, even when built on the 180 nm process, the Athlon was capable of clocking much higher.

AMD ended its long-time handicap with floating point x87 performance by designing a super-pipelined, out-of-order, triple-issue floating point unit.

The CPUs topped out at around 25 W heat output ( like the AMD K6 ), whereas the P5 Pentium produced around 15 W of waste heat at its peak.

AMD chose a different direction, designing the less radical x86-64, a 64-bit extension to the existing x86 architecture, which Microsoft then supported, forcing Intel to introduce the same extension in its own x86-based processors.

In 2010, GPHI announced it had won a significant favorable ruling in its litigation with ATI Technologies and AMD in June 2010, following the patent lawsuit originally filed during the Silicon Graphics, Inc. era.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

In 2011-01-31, the District Court entered an order that permits AMD to pursue its invalidity affirmative defense at trial and does not permit SGI to accuse AMD's Radeon R700 series of graphics products of infringement in this case.

AMD licensed the SSE3 instruction set and implemented most of the SSE3 instructions for its revision E and later Athlon 64 processors.

AMD even ended up playing a significant role in directing the evolution of the x86 platform when its Athlon line of processors continued to develop the classic x86 architecture as Intel deviated with its " Netburst " architecture for the Pentium 4 CPUs and the IA-64 architecture for the Itanium set of server CPUs.

AMD, during one of its numerous court battles with Intel, produced marketing material from Intel indicating that MMX stood for " Matrix Math Extensions ".

In 1997, Intel filed suit against AMD and Cyrix Corp. for misuse of its trademark MMX.

AMD eventually added support for SSE instructions, starting with its Athlon XP and Duron ( Morgan core ) processors.

As part of the transaction, AMD contributed its flash memory group, Fab 25 in Texas, its R & D facilities and assembly plants in Thailand, Malaysia and China ; Fujitsu provided its Flash memory business division and the Malaysian Fujitsu Microelectronics final assembly and test operations.

Thereafter, Adobe generally preferred a RISC for its processor, as its competitors, with their PostScript clones, had already gone with RISCs, often an AMD 29000-series.

Intel made a successful major push into the motherboard and chipset markets — becoming the largest motherboard manufacturer in the world and, at one stage, almost the only chipset manufacturer — but badly fumbled its attempt to move into the graphics chip market, and ( from 1991 ) faced sharp competition in its core CPU territory from AMD, Cyrix, VIA and Transmeta.

Both firms talk with one another's competitors from time to time, most notably with Microsoft's close relationship with AMD and the development of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition utilizing AMD-designed 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture, and Intel's decision to sell its processors to Apple Inc.

Along with its nearest competitor, the AMD Radeon, the GeForce architecture is moving toward GPGPU ( General Purpose-Graphics Processor Unit ).