Re-defining microprocessors: Q&A with AMD’s Henri Richard
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday March 16 2006 @ 09:40AM EST
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DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
After a long period of being considered the under-dog of the microprocessor world, AMD emerged, particularly with its K7 generation of processors, as a company that could provide formidable competition on price-performance. AMD didn't stop there; it made a bold move in advancing the industry to 64-bit performance, at a time when the competition (read: Intel) was preoccupied with thermal issues.
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