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The first of May, AMD celebrated the anniversary - 45 years since the foundation in 1969. The company has entered a midlife crisis : factories for sale , transition to work with custom APU and general roughness of processors development .
The main problem lies in the company's total lack of funds.
In 1996 AMD company acquired NexGen, development of which subsequently appeared Nx series processors and, ultimately, a series of K6 with Socket 7 platform. K7 processors have consolidated the success of the AMD processors on the market, then transformed into a platform Slot A. Finally, appeared after this K8 processors.
Of course, those days are gone. PC market began to experience difficulties (2008 crisis!). In addition, Intel has been seen in unfair competition when directly and indirectly encourage major PC vendors to refuse competing platforms. Today, AMD is trying to start a new life. It can't to compete with Intel in the niche high-performance processors. Staked to energy efficient platforms, including highly integrated custom APU (console etc.). Related Products :
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