NexGen: Gone But Not Forgotten

[neeyik]

Four decades ago, the CPU market was far more diverse than it is today. One company called NexGen had backing from big PC names, plenty of capital, and a team of great engineers. But what happened?

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/article/2619-nexgen-cpu-history/

 

[Beerfloat]

Nick Evanson's on a tear with his recent articles! One deep cut after the next, chapeau

 

[ghosty]

Another nice article, good read.

Though I giggled at this typo: "with the dedicated 64-but bus".
That's a lot of buts, no ifs about that.

 

[neeyik]

Another nice article, good read.

Though I giggled at this typo: "with the dedicated 64-but bus".
That's a lot of buts, no ifs about that.

But buses were the peak of technology back then! All fixed now, though, many thanks.

 

[Hodor]

AMD didn't clone Intel's design. They cloned behavior, made it compatible running the same machine code, but under the hub AMD design was much better and faster. They used experience from advanced chips like AM-29000, which was alien technology compared to Intel's design.