The History of Intel

[Strider1974]

Was watching the Cold Fusion Intel story on YouTube Part 1 & Part 2.

 

I wasn't aware just how bad their anti-trust behaviours were. 

[Vishera]

6 minutes ago, Strider1974 said:

I wasn't aware just how bad their anti-trust behaviours were. 

After all AMD reverse engineered Intel's processors and then released them as their own.

[WhitetailAni]

The irony of AMD's history is that Intel basically created them.

Who would have thunk that Intel would have created its worst enemy?

[GDRRiley]

15 minutes ago, Vishera said:

After all AMD reverse engineered Intel's processors and then released them as their own.

after intel broke their agreement to AMD. intel was suppose to give those chip designs to them

23 minutes ago, Strider1974 said:

I wasn't aware just how bad their anti-trust behaviours were. 

AMD bad 2010-2016 was because of intel in the early 2000s
New york vs Intel is a great reat

Edited February 25, 2021 by GDRRiley

[Arika]

all "top" company got there by questionable means.

[Master Disaster]

Saved these to watch tomorrow, its almost midnight and I need sleep right now.

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, daisie678 said:

No doubt Intel is one one leading brand in industry but do guys think after AMD success is the end of Intel era? How you guys see the future of Intel?

Its not AMD that Intel should be worrying about, the future is in low powered RISC SoCs like ARM or RISCV.

 

Not that I foresee traditional machines going anywhere for a long time but our dependency on them (at least in our homes and personal lives) is going to keep decreasing as RISC catches up to SISC and energy efficiency keeps getting more important.

[whm1974]

On 2/26/2021 at 5:40 AM, Master Disaster said:

Its not AMD that Intel should be worrying about, the future is in low powered RISC SoCs like ARM or RISCV.

 

Not that I foresee traditional machines going anywhere for a long time but our dependency on them (at least in our homes and personal lives) is going to keep decreasing as RISC catches up to SISC and energy efficiency keeps getting more important.

What are you calling SISC? This:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer

No CPU/SoC uses this.

[Master Disaster]

5 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

What are you calling SISC? This:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer

No CPU/SoC uses this.

Apologies, typo. I meant CISC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_instruction_set_computer

[whm1974]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Apologies, typo. I meant CISC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_instruction_set_computer

Modern CISC based CPUs are not "Pure" CISC designs. They have a RISC back engine(Forgotten the Term). Remember during the mid80's to ~2000 RISC designs went 64 Bit and did outperformed CISC based PCs.

[Guest]

Perhaps it's best that people look at historical timelines. 

 

AMD Historical Time Line

Spoiler

 

1969 - Becomes Incorporated, moves to new headquarters in Sunnyvale
1969 - Produces their first revenue product at FAB 1, the licensed AM9300 4-bit MSI shift register
1970 - Company turns 1 year old in May, has 53 employees and 18 products
1970 - Introduces their first proprietary product, the AM2501 logic counter
1971 - Enters the RAM memory market with the Am3101 64-bit bipolar RAM
1972 - Company goes public, shares IPO at $15
1973 - Opens first overseas volume manufacturing site in Penang Malaysia
1974 - $25 million dollars in annual sales. Celebrates 5th anniversary in May
1975 - Enters the SRAM memory market with their 1k-bit AM9102
1975 - Products offered are the 8080A microprocessor, and the AM2900 family
1976 - AMD and Intel sign cross-license patent agreement
1977 - AMD and Siemens establish Advanced Micro Computers (a joint venture to develop microcomputers)
1978 - Opens assembly facility in Manila Philippines
1978 - Construction begins on Austin Texas manufacturing facility
1979  - Austin Texas facility begins production
1979 - AMD stock becomes listed on the NYSE
1981 - AMD chips are used on-board NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle
1981 - AMD's San Antonio Texas facility is constructed
1981 - AMD and Intel renew and expand their cross-license patent agreement
1982 - AMD and Intel sign technology exchange agreement for iAPX86 microprocessor family
1984 - AMD begins production of 80286 micrprocessors under license from Intel
1984 - Construction begins at Bangkok Thailand and Austin's building 2 facilities
1985 - AMD becomes a fortune 500 company
1985 - Fabs 14 & 15 begin production in Austin Texas
1986 - 29300 family of 32-bit microprocessors introduced
1986 - Introduces the industry's first 1-million bit EPROM
1986 - Tony Holbrook becomes company president
1987 - Partners with Sony to develop CMOS technology
1987 - Company initiates arbitration action against Intel
1987 - AMD and Monolothic Memories Inc. (MMI) merge. Monolithic Memories becomes a subsidiary of AMD
1990 - Rich Previte becomes AMD president and COO
1991 - Introduces the AM386 Microprocessor - breaking Intel's monopoly on the PC  Microprocessor market
1991 - Ships it's millionth AM386 Microprocessor only 8 months after introduction
1996 - Introduces their first completely in-house designed microprocessor, the AMD K5
2000 - AMD's Athlon becomes first microprocessor to break the 1 GHz barrier
2003 - Introduces the world's first x86 64-bit processor - the AMD Opteron
2006 - Acquires GPU designer ATI Technologies
2017 - AMD supplies custom GPU chips to rival Intel, to compete with NVIDIA  processors

 

 

 

 

Intel's Historical Time Line.

Spoiler

 

1968 July 18CompanyIntel is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, who had both left Fairchild Semiconductor.[1]

1969 May 1CompetitionAdvanced Micro Devices is founded by Jerry Sanders. This company would become the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the market for x86-based microprocessors.

1970 OctoberProductsIntel comes out with its 3rd product, the Intel 1103, which put Intel on the map.[2]

1971 October 13CompanyIntel goes IPO at a price of $23.50 a share. At 350,000 shares, this sums to a total of $8.225M.[3]

1971  November 15ProductIntel launches its first microprocessor, the 4004.[4][5]

1972 AprilProductIntel announces the first 8-bit microprocessor, the 8008.[4][5][6]

1974 AprilProductIntel launches the Intel 8080 microprocessor, the first general-purpose microprocessor, featuring 4,500 transistors.[4] This finally kickstarts computer development.[6]

1976 ProductIntel launches the Intel MCS-48 series of microcontrollers, the world's first microcontrollers (which combine a CPU with memory, peripherals, and input-output functions).[4]

1978 JuneProductIntel introduces the 8086 16-bit microprocessor, which becomes the industry standard (for the x86 instruction set).[6]

1979 NovemberProductIntel launches "Operation Crush", a campaign to establish the 8086 as the standard for the 16-bit microprocessor market (which was competing with the technically superior Motorola 68000). This finally convinces IBM to adopt the 8086 in its upcoming personal computer.[2]

1980 ProductIntel and Xerox introduce the cooperative Ethernet project.[4]

1982 February 1ProductIntel launches the 16-bit Intel 286 microprocessor, which features 134,000 transistors and is built into many PCs.[4]

1983 ProductIntel launches CHMOS technology, which increases chip performance while decreasing power consumption.[4]

1984 ProductIntel announces the world's first CHMOS DRAMs, which have densities as high as 256K.[4]

1985 ProductIntel enters the parallel supercomputer business and introduces the iPSC/1.[4][7]

1985 OctoberProductIntel launches (and sole-sources) the 80386 processor, a 32-bit chip that incorporates 275K transistors and can run multiple software programs at once.[2]

1986SeptemberPartnershipsCompaq buys the 386 for its Deskpro personal computer. Compaq was one of several IBM clones that would adopt Intel processors, which shifted control of the computing industry from IBM to Intel.[2]

1986  LegalThe US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement is signed, opening up Japanese markets to US semiconductor markets.

1989 April 10ProductIntel introduces the 80486 microprocessor, which it sole-sources for 4 years. This offers backwards compatibility.[2]

1989 OctoberMarketingIntel launches the "Red X" marketing campaign by discrediting its original 16-bit and 8-bit products, in order to encourage more people to adopt 32-bit computing.[8]

1990 June 3TeamRobert Noyce suddenly dies from a heart attack.[9]

1990 NovemberCompetitionIntel loses its suit against AMD. This loss allows AMD to create clones of the 386 processor.[10]

1991 SpringProductIntel decides that it will stick with CISC architecture, and cuts off support for RISC architecture, which was internally developed by Les Kohn.[2]

1991 CompanyIntel starts the Intel Inside marketing campaign.[4][11]

1992 CompetitionIntel becomes the top-ranked seller for semiconductor sales. It has retained its top ranking ever since.[4]

1993 MarchProductIntel launches the Pentium processor, which has 3.1 million transistors, initial speeds of 60 MHz, features an integrated floating-point unit, and is built on a 0.8 micron bi-CMOS process.[4][12]

1994 DecemberProductIntel suffers a public relations disaster when CNN publicized the story that there was a flaw in the way that the Pentium chip did division. Intel argued that the flaw was irrelevant, but then IBM halted shipments of Pentium-based computers, forcing Intel to reverse course and offer a no-questions-asked return policy.[13]

1995 November 1ProductIntel launches the Pentium Pro processor, a high-performance chip targeted for 32-bit workstations.[4]

1996 October 22ProductIntel launches the Pentium MMX product line.[14]

1997 May 7ProductIntel launches the Pentium II line of processors, which is Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture (P6).[15]

1998 April 1CompanyIntel wins sponsorship rights to the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.[16]

1998 June 29ProductIntel rolls out the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor, Intel's new high-end solution for the workstation and server markets.[17]

1998 August 24ProductIntel launches the first processor for the budget PC market segment, the Intel Celeron processor.[18]

1999 February 26ProductIntel launches the Pentium III generation of microprocessors, which features the addition of the SSE instruction set (to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations).[19]

1999 OctoberCompanyThe Dow Jones Industrial Average adds Intel to its list.[20]

2000 CompanyIntel launches Intel Research.

2000 NovemberProductIntel introduces the Pentium 4 processor, with an initial speed of 1.5 GHz.[4][21]

2001 MayLegal, competitionIntel and Advanced Micro Devices make a patent cross-license agreement between the companies.[22]

2003 MarchProductIntel introduces Centrino processor technology for laptop PCs, which made wireless compatibility a standard for laptop computers.[4][23][24]

2004 FebruaryProductIntel announces that it will implement its first 64-bit processor, and releases the Nocona on June 2004.[25]

2005 JuneLegal, competitionAMD files lawsuit against Intel, claiming that Intel engaged in unfair competition by offering rebates to Japanese PC manufacturers who agreed to eliminate or limit purchases of microprocessors made by AMD or a smaller manufacturer, Transmeta. On November 2009, Intel agrees to pay AMD $1.25 billion in a settlement.

2006 DecemberProductIntel launches the Core 2 Duo processor, which marks its transition into dual core processors.[4][26]

2007 NovemberCompetitionQualcomm launches the first Snapdragon system on a chip semiconductor product, which included the first 1 GHz processor for mobile phones. By 2011, Snapdragon achieves 50% market share of the smartphone processor market.[27]

2008 March 2ProductIntel announces the Intel Atom, a line of low-power, low-cost and low-performance x86 and x86-64 microprocessors that can be used for smartphones and tablets.[4]

2008 August 10ProductIntel announces the Nehalem microprocessor, which represents the new Core i7 brand of high-end microprocessors to replace the Core 2 Duo microprocessors.[28]

2009 NovemberLegalIntel pays Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion in a settlement over AMD's assertion that Intel rewarded computer makers that used only Intel chips and punished those who bought from AMD.[29]

2011 JanuaryProductIntel announces the Sandy Bridge series of i7 microprocessors to replace Nehalem. Sandy Bridge microprocessors start out as quad-core.[30]

2011 MayProductIntel announces that it will put the first 3D transistors. into high-volume production (the structure it invented is called "Tri-Gate").[31]

2013 JuneProductIntel releases the next-generation lineup of desktop and mobile processors in the Core i3, i5, and i7 family – known as Haswell.[32]

2013 September 10ProductIntel announces the Intel Quark, a tiny chip that can power Internet of things and wearable devices.[33]

2016 May 3ProductIntel announces withdrawal from smartphone market. [34][35]

 

 

[Vishera]

Intel:

5 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

1974 AprilProductIntel launches the Intel 8080 microprocessor, the first general-purpose microprocessor, featuring 4,500 transistors.[4] This finally kickstarts computer development.[6]

AMD:

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

1975 - Products offered are the 8080A microprocessor...

Intel releases the 8080,then AMD reverse engineers it and releases it as their own product,the 8080A.

 

8 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

1976 - AMD and Intel sign cross-license patent agreement

I am pretty sure that Intel regrets that decision.

[Vishera]

An 8080 by Intel:

 

An 8080A by AMD:

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 2/25/2021 at 5:34 PM, FakeKGB said:

The irony of AMD's history is that Intel basically created them.

Who would have thunk that Intel would have created its worst enemy?

It's always that way. Nintendo created the videogame part of Sony, who caused MS to want a price of the cake.

 

 

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It's always that way. Nintendo created the videogame part of Sony, who caused MS to want a price of the cake.

The problem is that AMD out right used Intel's architectures and designs as their own,even before signing the cross-license patent agreement.

AMD's processors were very good copies of Intel processors,at times even surpassing the originals,but that wasn't their design/architecture.

Intel did all the hard work while AMD copied it,and sold the product as their own.

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Intel:

AMD:

Intel releases the 8080,then AMD reverse engineers it and releases it as their own product,the 8080A.

 

I am pretty sure that Intel regrets that decision.

And those patents where mid 70s.

 

Jim Keller made AMD fast in the late 90s. Again just a few years ago.

 

Has nothing to do with sharing a patent from that time period.

 

 

[GreatnessRD]

Thanks for sharing this. Cool to learn new information that you never knew.

[whm1974]

Speaking of the i8080, it was actually the i8008 CPU that was the Microprocessor that could have kickstarted the Personal Computer. Case in point: The Datapoint 2200 which used the same ISA that could be used as a PC instead of a Smart Terminal.