https://dfarq.homeip.net/amd-athlon-amds-game-changing-cpu-from-1999/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amd-athlon-amds-game-changing-cpu-from-1999 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://dfarq.homeip.net/amd-athlon-amds-game-changing-cpu-from-1999/#comment-56570 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:54:41 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35560#comment-56570 That’s when today’s AMD was born., emerging from the shadows of being a mere backward low-cost competitor to x86 processors.
I think it’s great that big companies are scared when this happens. In the Pentium generation, Intel decided to block clones, and then they found themselves with the competition being able to do something from scratch and even better.
No one believed that this could happen, to face the all-powerful intel, I remember that during the early 2000s we had a flood of AMD processors on the market, especially after Duron, it was something unprecedented, From then on we saw the fall of Intel as sovereign, always with ups and downs, always with AMD on its side

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