AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) NYSE: AMD is a manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second-largest supplier of x86-compatible processors, and a leading supplier of non-volatile flash memory. It was founded in 1969 by a group of defectors from Fairchild Semiconductor, including Jerry Sanders. AMD's current president and CEO is Dr. Héctor Ruiz. AMD is best known for the Athlon, Opteron, Turion64, Sempron and Duron lines of x86-compatible processors. Their more general com ...

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• AMD - Financial information
• AMD - General history
• AMD - 8086 80286 80386 Am486
• AMD - K5
• AMD - NexGen / K6
• AMD - Athlon / K7
• AMD - AMD64 / K8
• AMD - Geode
• AMD - Pacifica
• AMD - Current production
• AMD - Partnerships
• AMD - Flash technology
• AMD - Lawsuits against Intel Corporation

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It was clear that if AMD was to survive, the company had to change strategy. CEO and founder Jerry Sanders recognized this, and developed a famous "Virtual Gorilla" strategy. This utilised strategic industry partnerships, to enable AMD to compete with Intel on a more equal technological footing. The fruits of this were shown in August of 1999, when AMD released the Athlon (K7) processor. Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, one of the lead engineers on the DEC Alpha project. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineer ...

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AMD, AMD - Financial information, AMD - General history, AMD - 8086 80286 80386 Am486, AMD - K5, AMD - NexGen / K6, AMD - Athlon / K7, AMD - AMD64 / K8, AMD - Geode, AMD - Pacifica, AMD - Current production, AMD - Partnerships, AMD - Flash technology, AMD - Lawsuits against Intel Corporation

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It was clear that if AMD was to survive, the company had to change strategy. CEO and founder Jerry Sanders recognized this, and developed a famous "Virtual Gorilla" strategy. This utilized strategic industry partnerships, to enable AMD to compete with Intel on a more equal technological footing. The fruits of this were shown in August of 1999, when AMD released the Athlon (K7) processor. Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, one of the lead engineers on the DEC Alpha project. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineer ...

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AMD, AMD - Financial information, AMD - General history, AMD - 8086 80286 80386 Am486, AMD - K5, AMD - NexGen / K6, AMD - Athlon / K7, AMD - AMD64 / K8, AMD - Geode, AMD - Pacifica, AMD - Current production, AMD - Partnerships, AMD - Flash technology, AMD - Lawsuits against Intel Corporation

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Note 1: Socket A processors use a double data rate (DDR) front side bus, meaning that the actual data transfer rate of the bus is twice its physical clock rate. Socket A Semprons use a 333 MHz FSB, which is a DDR 166 MHz FSB. The multipliers in the tables above apply to the 166 MHz physical clock rate, not the true data transfer rate. Note 2: For traditional processors, including the Socket A Semprons, the multiplier is the value multiplied to the speed of the FSB to get the clock speed of ...

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List of AMD Sempron microprocessors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Desktop processors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Thoroughbred-B Socket A 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Barton Socket A 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Paris Socket 754 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Palermo Socket 754 90 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Palermo Socket 939 90 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile processors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Dublin Socket 754 130 nm Desktop replacement 62W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Dublin Socket 754 130 nm Low power 25W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Georgetown Socket 754 90 nm Desktop replacement 62W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Sonora Socket 754 90 nm Low power 25W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Notes

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List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm. List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm. List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Applebred Model 8 130 nm. ...

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List of AMD Duron microprocessors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Desktop processors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Applebred Model 8 130 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile processors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Notes

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List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon 4 Corvette 22-25W TDP Socket A. List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon XP Thoroughbred Standard 35W TDP Socket A. List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon XP Thoroughbred Balanced 25W TDP Socket A. List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred Mainstream 45W TDP Socket A. List of AMD Athlon XP microprocess ...

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List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Desktop CPU, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP Palomino Model 6 180 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP Thoroughbred A/B Model 8 130 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP Thorton Model 10 130 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP Barton Model 10 130 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Server CPU, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon MP Palomino Model 6 180 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon MP Thoroughbred Model 8 130 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon MP Barton Model 10 130 nm, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Processors, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon 4 Corvette 22-25W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon XP Thoroughbred Standard 35W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Mobile Athlon XP Thoroughbred Balanced 25W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred Mainstream 45W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred Desktop Replacement 72W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred Low Voltage 35W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Barton Mainstream 45W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Barton Desktop Replacement 72W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Barton Low Voltage 35W TDP Socket A, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Athlon XP-M Dublin K8-based Socket 754, List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Notes

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Seymour Cray began working in the computing field in 1950 when he joined Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, he helped to create the ERA 1103, regarded as the first successful scientific computer. ERA eventually became part of UNIVAC, and started to be phased out. He left the company in 1960, a few years after some former ERA employees set up Control Data Corporation (CDC). He eventually set up a lab at his home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, about 85 miles to the east. Cray left CDC in 1972 to form his own company, Cray Research, with research and development facilities in Chippewa Falls bu ...

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Cray Inc., Cray Inc. - The Cray Research years, Cray Inc. - The SGI years, Cray Inc. - Current status of Cray Inc., Cray Inc. - Financial troubles, Cray Inc. - Trivia, Cray Inc. - Computers

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A Complex Instruction Set Core (CISC) is a microprocessor instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can execute several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction. The term was coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). Before the first RISC processors were designed, many computer architects tried to bridge the "semantic gap" - to design instruction sets to support high-level programming languages by providing ...

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A badge is a device, patch, or accoutrement which is presented or displayed to annote some feat of service, a special accomplishment, as a symbol of authority (ex: police), or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising and publicity. Badges have become highly collectable: in the UK, for example, the Badge Collectors' Circle has been going since 1980 [1]. Even today, pin button badges are extremely popular [2]. In the military, badges are often used to denote qualifications received through military training. Similarly, scouting organizations ...

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In computing, virtualization is the process of presenting a logical grouping or subset of computing resources so that they can be accessed in ways that give benefits over the original configuration. This new virtual view of the resources is not restricted by the implementation, geographic location or the physical configuration of underlying resources. Commonly virtualized resources include computing power and data storage. A good example of virtualization is modern symmetric multiprocessing computer architectures that co ...

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In general terms, a virtual machine in computer science is software that creates an environment between the computer platform and the end user in which the end user can operate software. Specifically, the term virtual machine has several distinct meanings: Virtual machine - Definitions. Virtual machine - Original meaning. The original meaning of virtual machine is the creation of a number of different identical execution environments on a single computer, each of w ...

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• Virtual machine - Original meaning
• Virtual machine - Application virtual machine
• Virtual machine - Operating system virtual machine
• Virtual machine - Parallel virtual machine
• Virtual machine - Techniques
• Virtual machine - Emulation of the underlying raw hardware
• Virtual machine - Emulation of a non-native system
• Virtual machine - List of virtual machine software

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Windows XP is a major revision of the Microsoft Windows operating system created for use on desktop and business computer systems. As of 2005, it is the latest general purpose version of Microsoft's family of operating systems, and is expected to be succeeded by Windows Vista sometime in late 2006. Codenamed "Whistler" during its development, it was released on October 25, 2001. The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home users, and Windows XP Professional, whic ...

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• Windows XP - Editions
• Windows XP - Windows XP for specialized hardware
• Windows XP - Windows XP Starter Edition
• Windows XP - Windows XP Home and Professional Edition N
• Windows XP - New and updated features
• Windows XP - User interface
• Windows XP - Service packs
• Windows XP - Service Pack 1
• Windows XP - Service Pack 2
• Windows XP - Service Pack 3
• Windows XP - Common criticisms
• Windows XP - Security issues
• Windows XP - Product activation
• Windows XP - User interface and performance
• Windows XP - Integration of operating system features
• Windows XP - Copying restrictions
• Windows XP - Notes

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Automated theorem proving (currently the most important subfield of automated reasoning) is the proving of mathematical theorems by a computer program. Depending on the underlying logic, the problem of deciding the validity of a theorem varies from trivial to impossible. For the frequent case of propositional logic, the problem is decidable but NP-complete, and hence only exponential time algorithms are believed to exist. For first-order logic it is recursively enumerable, i.e., given unbounded resources, any valid theorem can ...

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• Automated theorem proving - First-order theorem proving
• Automated theorem proving - Popular techniques
• Automated theorem proving - Available implementations
• Automated theorem proving - Important people
• Automated theorem proving - References books

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AMD K6 - History. 1997 saw the arrival of AMD's K6 microprocessor. The significance of this particular microprocessor is that it was designed to fit into existing Pentium desktop designs. What is more it was marketed as being a product which could perform as well as its Intel Pentium equivalent but at a significantly lower price. The K6 had a considerable impact on the PC market and presented Intel with serious competition. AMD K6 - Background. The AMD K6 i ...

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• AMD K6 - History
• AMD K6 - Background
• AMD K6 - Models
• AMD K6 - K6 Model 6
• AMD K6 - K6 Little Foot Model 7

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Penang (Malay (romanised script): Pulau Pinang, Malay (Jawi script): بينانج, Chinese: 檳城, ) (Malaysian state code : PP or PN), (transport code : P), is a Malaysian state located on the north-west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The name "Penang" comes from the word "pinang", the betel nut tree (Areca catechu). The name "Pulau Pinang" translate ...

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• Penang - Geography
• Penang - History
• Penang - State government
• Penang - Culture and economy
• Penang - Language
• Penang - Transport
• Penang - Famous Penangites

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Compaq was a personal computer company founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. During the 1980s Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers at a low-cost. The term "COMPAQ" is an acronym for "Compatibility and Quality". It existed as a standalone entity until 2002 when it was merged with Hewlett-Packard. Compaq - History. Compaq - 1980s. Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three se ...

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• Compaq - History
• Compaq - 1980s
• Compaq - 1990s - Present
• Compaq - PC Products
• Compaq - Culture
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A computer workstation, often colloquially referred to as workstation, is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the ability to carry out several tasks at the same time. When comparing with some of the old definitions of computing power, some people may consider a workstation to be the equivalent of a one-person minicomputer. Today the average per ...

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• Computer workstation - What makes a workstation?
• Computer workstation - List of workstations and manufacturers

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Location in the state of Texas The City of Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, Austin has a population of 656,562 people, making it the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th largest in the United States. A 2004 U.S. Census estimate placed the population of the city at 681,804. Situated in the region of Central Texas, the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing in the United States and is home t ...

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• Austin Texas - History
• Austin Texas - Early settlers
• Austin Texas - Anglo American settlers
• Austin Texas - Republic of Texas
• Austin Texas - 1845 to 1899
• Austin Texas - 1900 to 1969
• Austin Texas - 1970 to 1989
• Austin Texas - 1990 to present
• Austin Texas - Geography
• Austin Texas - Economy
• Austin Texas - Government and politics
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• Austin Texas - Politics
• Austin Texas - Demographics
• Austin Texas - People and culture
• Austin Texas - Architectural landmarks
• Austin Texas - Education
• Austin Texas - Media and entertainment
• Austin Texas - Sports
• Austin Texas - Sister cities

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In computing, "word" is a term for the natural unit of data used by a particular computer design. A word is simply a fixed-sized group of bits that are handled together by the machine. The word size (or length) is an important characteristic of a computer architecture. The size of a word influences many aspects of a computer's structure and operation. The majority of the registers in the computer are usually word-sized. The typical numeric value manipulated by the computer is probably word sized. The amount of data transferred ...

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• Word computer science - Uses of words
• Word computer science - Word size choice
• Word computer science - Variable word architectures
• Word computer science - Word and byte addressing
• Word computer science - The power of 2
• Word computer science - Size families
• Word computer science - Table of word sizes

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x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. The x86 architecture currently dominates the desktop computer, portable computer, and small server markets. The architecture is called x86 because the earliest processors in this family were identified by model numbers ending in the sequence "86": the 8086, the 80186, the 80286, the 386, and the 486. Because one cannot trademark numbers, Intel and most ...

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• X86 - History
• X86 - Design
• X86 - Real mode
• X86 - 16-bit protected mode
• X86 - 32-bit protected mode
• X86 - MMX and beyond
• X86 - 3DNow!
• X86 - SSE
• X86 - SSE2
• X86 - SSE3
• X86 - 64-bit
• X86 - Virtualization
• X86 - Manufacturers

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