33 Jahre nach der Gründung von AMD wird Jerry Sanders III sein Amt als CEO niederlegen. AMD ist heute der letzte verblieben Prozessorhersteller jener 15, die damals Anfang der 80er eine Lizenz für Intels 8080 Prozessordesign erworben haben. UpsideToday konnte ein Interview mit Mr. Sanders führen, Titel: "The Last Man Standing". Hier ein paar Auszüge:
What was the order of events?
1975 was our first 8080A, an unauthorized second source that resulted in a patent cross-license agreement with Intel and their request that we second source the 8085, because they were losing business to Zilog’s Z80. The 8085 was just a second generation of the 8080A. Then they said they didn’t want us to do the 8086, and that really annoyed me, because the 8086 was the next generation. So we went to market with a Zilog Z8000 deal.
In those days, Intel needed a second source for the 8086 to satisfy IBM. In 1981, we renegotiated a deal with Intel that would make us an authorized alternate source with full legal rights. We did that with the 8086, the 8087, and then with the 286 and 287. Then they went to the 386, and there were two versions, and it was at that time that Intel said, “No more. We’re not going to give you any more technology.”
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