Comments on: AMD’s acquisition of NexGen https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amds-acquisition-of-nexgen David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/#comment-56727 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:46:43 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36635#comment-56727 In reply to neo.

As far as I know, yes, AMD continued to use the NexGen IP on subsequent CPUs, integrating NexGen’s engineers with some of its own. The Nx686, which NexGen was designing when AMD bought them, became the AMD K6. I don’t have any insight into how far along the Athlon would have been circa 1995 though, that chip was still several years off.

]]> By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/#comment-56726 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:40:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36635#comment-56726 In reply to Sev K.

I’ve had someone ask me if I ever saw an Nx586 myself with my own eyes in the wild. I don’t think I have. I read about it, saw the ads, and was certainly interested in it, but AMD bought NexGen pretty fast. By the time I was in the market for a Pentium-class motherboard and CPU, NexGen was gone from the market.

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/#comment-56722 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:07:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36635#comment-56722 was Athlon CPU based on the current NexGen ip?
was Athlon CPU NexGen Nx686 or Nx786

]]> By: Sev K https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/#comment-56721 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:16:00 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36635#comment-56721 I remember reading about these in PC Mag when they came out. They seemed promising. I only ever saw set of CPU/motherboard for sale in a used section at an old computer store back in 1995 or 1996. Theyre quite pricey on ebay when they do pop up.

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