Name: How Chip Giant AMD Finally Caught Intel
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At the heart of all the most advanced computers,

data centers and gaming consoles there are two

You know, we're in a world today where chips are

And only one company in the world designs them

both at scale: Advanced Micro Devices or AMD.

It's known for computing, but now it's branching

out. Its chips are inside Teslas, the Mars land

rover, 5G cell towers and the world's fastest

They used to be sort of under the covers.

important. And I think what the pandemic has done

And it really highlighted why chips are so enabling

AMD only has major competition from two other

companies when it comes to designing the most

advanced microprocessors: Intel in CPUs, central

processing units, and NVIDIA in GPUs, graphics

While AMD controls far less market share than

Intel in CPUs and NVIDIA in GPUs, AMD made history

this year when it surpassed Intel's massive

I think AMD is beating Intel on all the metrics

that matter. And unless Intel can fix its

manufacturing, they will continue to do that.

But a decade ago, analysts had a very different

performance problems.  They just could not

This is the story of AMD, its remarkable comeback,

pioneering female CEO and huge bets on new types of

chips in the face of a PC slump, shifting trends and

mounting concerns around China and Taiwan, where

microchips. It was founded in 1969 by eight

recently left Fairchild Semiconductor, which

Jerry Sanders was this big, larger-than-life guy.

He was a salesman at his heart, but he was one of

the best salesmen that Silicon Valley had ever

seen. Stories of lavish parties that they would

throw. And like there's one story about him and

his wife coming down the stairs of the turret at

AMD released its first product in 1970, went

public in 1972 and was pumping out computer chips

It was a second source supplier for Intel by the

eighties, when Harry Levinson began his 20 plus

When I first got there, most people didn't know

In the mid eighties, AMD  and Intel parted ways.

And by the late eighties and early nineties, AMD

reverse engineered Intel's chips to make its

own products that were compatible with Intel's

pricing more competitive for end consumers.

When we really got going in the x86, there was a

AMD and Intel entered a long legal battle over the

intellectual rights to the x86 processor.

It culminated in a settlement in 1995 after

the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of

From there, AMD became a major player in semis,

racing Intel to become first to produce a 1-GHz

processor and making the first 1-teraflop GPU,

meaning it can handle a trillion calculations

For almost all its 53 years, AMD has been

designing chips for computers, data centers

and gaming consoles like the PS5 and latest Xbox.

But under CEO Lisa Su, it's branched out into

We're also in many industrial applications,

aerospace and defense applications, health care

Until just over a decade ago, AMD wasn't just

designing these chips, it was making them too.

Jerry Sanders was very famous for saying "real

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