Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word AMD

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Definitions of AMD

1. Initialism of age-related macular degeneration.
2. (stock symbol) Initialism of Advanced Micro Devices.

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Examples of Using AMD in a Sentence

• Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by AMD.
• AMD K7, codename for certain AMD CPUs, including the Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron and some Sempron microprocessors.
• It is based upon AMD's Magic Packet Technology, which was co-developed by AMD and Hewlett-Packard, following its proposal as a standard in 1995.
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), during one of its many court battles with Intel, produced marketing material from Intel indicating that MMX stood for "Matrix Math Extensions".
• Duron is a line of budget x86-compatible microprocessors manufactured by AMD and released on June 19, 2000.
• HyperTransport is best known as the system bus architecture of AMD central processing units (CPUs) from Athlon 64 through AMD FX and the associated motherboard chipsets.
• AMD APU, marketing term from AMD for a microprocessor that includes a CPU and a GPU within a single chip.
• Processors based on the AMD K10 microarchitecture (codenamed Barcelona) were announced on September 10, 2007, featuring a new quad-core configuration.
• Since having a clock multiplier of four is not part of the original Socket 3 design (and that the 486 only have a single CLKMUL pin anyway), AMD made the 5x86 accept a 2x setting from the motherboard and instead operate at a rate of 4x.
• The PR (performance rating, P-rating, or Pentium rating) system was a figure of merit developed by AMD, Cyrix, IBM Microelectronics and SGS-Thomson in the mid-1990s as a method of comparing their x86 processors to those of rival Intel.
• The socket supersedes the earlier Socket 5, and accepts P5 Pentium microprocessors manufactured by Intel, as well as compatibles made by Cyrix/IBM, AMD, IDT and others.
• Heterogeneous(-compute) Interface for Portability, a parallel (GPU) computing platform by AMD and an alternative to CUDA by Nvidia.
• The Athlon 64 was originally codenamed ClawHammer by AMD, Like the Opteron, on which it was based, the Athlon FX-51 required buffered random-access memory (RAM), increasing the final cost of an upgrade.
• The result of modernizing the P6 microarchitecture was the Core processor line, and later the Core 2 line, offering Intel's first native dual core products for desktops and laptops while regaining the performance crown back from AMD.
• 3DNow! is a deprecated extension to the x86 instruction set developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
• In 1989 together with Charles Hampden-Turner he founded and directed the consultancy firm Centre for International Business Studies, working for such companies as BP, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, Honeywell.
• AMD CoolCore technology get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.
• Delta Color Compression, a lossless color compression technique implemented in the graphics core next (GCN) GPU architecture from AMD.
• It would allow the user to upgrade their graphics processing unit via the "GPU Slide Bay", and had an x86-based processor running at 600 MHz, which was later upgraded to a 750 MHz AMD Duron processor, and its GeForce 3 GPU would have been able to process 120-180 million polygons per second.
• To battle the Pentium II's dominance on floating point calculations the K6-2 was the first CPU to introduce a floating point SIMD instruction set (dubbed 3DNow! by AMD), which significantly boosted performance.

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