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AMD was actually briefly ahead twice before, once in early Athlon times and a few years later with the first AMD64 ("x86-64" or as Intel called it "EM64T") CPU
by ahartmetz 7y ago
AMD was actually briefly ahead twice before, once in early Athlon times and a few years later with the first AMD64 ("x86-64" or as Intel called it "EM64T") CPU with on-die memory controller.
- wtallis 7y agoThose were microarchitectural advantages. I don't think AMD was ahead on manufacturing process shrinks. A quick check shows that the P3 and Athlon went from 250nm to 180nm at the same time.