"AMD got their start by making Intel CPUs." "Linus Tech Tips got their start by making NCIX tech tips."

00:35 Quick note regarding this. The reason Intel went along with this was because the military usually required a redundant manufacturer, in case the primary one either went out of business, or hit some roadblock and were unable to make any more.

Thank you, Lisa Su. Otherwise we would still be buying $450 4-core 14nm Intel CPUs.

If you're going to refer to them by color, then AMD was team green in the early days, before acquiring ATi (team red in the graphics market).

I remember unlocking and overclocking my Duron by connecting bridges on the chip... with a PENCIL-drawn line. Went from 600 MHz to 900 MHz. Those were the days.

AMD was also first to break 1ghz. I feel like that was an important milestone that you glossed over mate.

The first high end PC I built from scratch was a dual Athlon MP system with a Tyan motherboard. I loved that computer.

I remember back in the 90s when people called AMD “another micro division” and said they were just Intel copycats!

I really thought this was called "best amd cpu ever" and learned all this history expecting a new CPU at the end XD

Until a few years ago I was running an AMD Athlon II x3 tri-core, which was actually a Quad-Core sold with one disabled, usually due to a defect. Some motherboards at the time came with a core unlocker which would try an activate that extra core. If you were lucky you could get a Quad-Core for the price of a tri-core (I wasn't!).

Why am I not surprised that he left out the fact that after AMD came out with Athlon 64 Intel had to license it so they could use it, so now both companies can only function because they have licensing deals with each other. One from Intel for x86 and one from AMD for x64, 😁

“There’s no law that says a fake can’t surpass the original “ - Shiro Emiya

Once upon a time, there were many cpu makers. now, there are only few left, even fewer that make high-end chips. AMD is one of the few giants who managed to stand the test of time.

It seemed being a ripoff is not always a bad thing… the important thing is innovating after you get your feet up. AMD, Huawei, XiaoMi, nVidia… the examples goes on and on…

It still baffles me how slow we went from 1 thread to 4 and how fast we went from 4 to 12 or 16 .

In high school in the mid 90s, I finally convinced my dad to buy us a PC. Is was the AST pc sold by Walmart (I didn't know any better, I was a teen in a podunk town with no real tech savvy friends). It was labeled as a K6 586/75. Upon startup, the bios listed the chip as 486/66...and so began my distrust of walmart.

This whole video was like intel vs amd having an anime showdown.

I always loved AMD, because of its pricing methods, it was significantly cheaper than Intel. It was the platform of the adventurers (with empty pockets :D ).

Screw the CPU history,why isn't anyone talking about the fact that AMD used to be green??

The AM486 was my first processor and made me and AMD fan ever since… never had an intel machine until my first laptop in 2017

Beginning to doubt AMD was known as Team Red before 2005... all their boxes seem green. But that was before they took over ATI which was red iirc.

Great overview, Linus. I love those kind of "tech history" videos a lot, having participated in computer technology upgrades for over 25 years now. Thank you!

5:19 "It was the start of a long decline for Team Red." Look over your left shoulder Linus. It's Team Green.

Could've mentioned that the K6 was based around a design by NexGen, which AMD had acquired prior and made for a strong basis.

I remember building a k6-2 machine. Back then was great if we're in the tech world you would get CPU' given out in care packages when you go to the events.

AMD Athlon was in the computer I built to take to college. Still rocking AMD today.

One of the most interesting videos EVER tough many info about athlon and duron wasn’t so precise. And thank you for activating subtitles. Hugs from Italy.

I loved my Athlon Thunderbird. I even cracked a corner of the core and it never quit working.

My very first PC was based on a Duron @750Mhz and since then all my computers were built around AMD CPUs, usually the entry level models. This brings back so many memories!

Hey, you just forgot amd's little venture in the arm world for their server lineup (and it was bad)

i remember using the athlon chip in 2005 and then a sempron chip when they first came out in 2006. The funny thing is that although the sempron was a budget cpu the changes in the cpu made it better for rendering 3d graphics than the much better athlon chip.

"Athlon, Duron, Opteron, Sempron, Turion" They forgot one, the AMD Onion

I remember the old "Barton" chips, I think that's what they were, that you could use a piece of tape and pencil to hard OC by putting the top on the pin side of the cpu, drawing a specific length line on it with the pencil, then removing the tape. Was interesting...

Man, I remember hearing about the FX years ago when I was running a Phenom 2 and being psyched about it. Those things were impressive for like a year and ran hot as balls. Glad Ryzen didn't keep the trend going.

Love this overview! Brings back memories!

Nicely done, and oh how many of these AMD chip versions have I lived through! Nice days now, with more power to the user, and RAM that can keep up.

The K5 was actually a AM29K (from that risc-family that ended up in laser printers) with an x86 instruction decoder.

I was running a Phenom II x6 up until 2 years ago. It was an amazing chip and it served me well.

Been on the AMD kick since the K6-2 with 3DNOW. I have been with them throughout all their ups and downs but nice to see how they been doing with the introduction of Ryzen. Was amazingly impressed with its first generation and its latest iteration has been great too.

Wonderful recap. This video will outlive me as it provides future enthusiast the proper foundation on team red vs blue. Most likely will be mandatory viewing a few decades from now. Cheers!

Yeah dude, the K6-2. Good times. And those Thunderbird overclocks… Duron was also the shit in budget builds at the time.

It's a wonderful video. But I would've loved to see mention how AMD's 64 bit architecture ended beating Intel's Itanium on the market to the point that Intel adopted AMD's x86_64 instead.

And I've been there almost all the way. Starting with the AM386SX, briefly passing by a Cyrix MII, then an Athlon Thunderbird 1300, then a Sempron 2800+, then an FX 8350 and now a Ryzen 5 3600. It's been a good run :)

@Techquickie A bit of Information is missing about the AMD K6 in the Beginning: Its based on the Nx686 from Nexgen, after AMD purchased them. Was "just" made Socket 7 Compatible. And also the AMD K6-3 with L2 Cache in the CPU - making it the first Consumer CPU with L3 cache (on the Motherboard)

Cool. Feels like it was important to mention that Opteron, waaaay back 2003, was the first iteration of what we now think of a a 64-bit PC processor. Well... unless tomorrow's video is all about Itanium... :-)

Phenom II wasn't the start of the decline, it was the peak in terms of their performance. My old 1090T I bought for less than half the price of the equivalent i7, was a hell of a powerhouse for computing tasks, like encoding and rendering, and it lasted me for 9 years of continued use without performance ever being an issue.

Ah, nostalgia. You know I ran a Phenom II and an FX chip for almost ten years and they worked great, even into modern applications with newer graphics cards. Finally refurbed and sold them because of the hardware supply shortage, damn good value even if they weren't market lead at the time. I'd never seen a PC hold any value after a decade and change until now.

This video takes me back to my first ever system build, featuring an AMD k6-2 450mhz, with a motherboard that needed its clocks set with dip switches on board for memory timings and processor speeds, also featured a hard drive that was 8gb i think, loaded up with win 98!

I had almost every one of these from the 486 up to AMD Phenom. Right now I’m running team blue though. Including the original Athlon slot processor which shortly after exploded due to a power supply issue. I probably bought a cheap one. 😂

I think I've owned at least 1 of nearly every AMD desktop generation since we crossed the 1ghz line. (maybe duron) The first few i built myself were xp ( i might have skipped a few bulldozers but my 1100t was still faster than them in single threaded )

The first PC I built myself when I was 8 or 9 was an AMD Athlon 64 x2

Still have a Phenom II X6 in my gaming computer. It's doing a good job even on recent games and workloads.

I've owned a K6-2, Duron, Thunderbird, Athlon XP, Sempron, Opteron, Phenom II and now Ryzen CPUs over the last 20 years. Except for the recent Ryzen purchase, it's been all the gaming value for me. And with the 5600X, it's still a pretty good value.

I like how AMD went from being green to red as they integrated ATI. Also RIP ATI :(

Thanks for posting this. Now I know what to look for in the used market.

My very first custom rig had a 1.1 Ghz Duron processor. Like the rest of that build, it wasn't the best, not by a long-shot, but it was mine, and it provided me with quite a bit of fun, as well as many lessons on what not to do for future builds. Good times.

I had quite few AMDs until i got an x3 one with three cores, then went Intel for 2 generations, but now i am back to Zen...

Athlon 64 x2 was my first cpu i purchased by itself. Dual core was revolutionary.

Nice trip down memory lane, thanks! I have owned or used a significant portion of the chips mentioned in this video. My first AMD chip was the 8088 clone in my IBM XT. Then a few years later I scored an Am386DX-33 that impressed the heck out of my 1993 self. Later I heard rumors about the awesome K6, and eventually got my hands on one. Very not bad, and it left me liking AMD enough to stick with them, for the most part. Heck, my 6-core Athlon lasted me 10 years until I replaced it with my current Ryzen 2700. Never cared much for their graphics cards, though.

Dude, when I saw this video call with the K6-2 image, it just brought many memories, the most important was that I met my wife in the internet using a PC with this chip back in 1998. It was 23 years ago. Still, so fast. Now I'm a happy Ryzen owner :).

*sigh* Still rocking the old FX 8350... hot and still somehow not dead.

I feel so old after watching this

If memory serves, the last AMD CPU that an intel chipset supported was the AMD DX4-100 CPU. Which kept a lot of those pre-Pentium MBs in the game for a while. in those days, there was a third option, the Cyrix 5x86, which was actually manufactured by IBM and sported better performance numbers but was hampered by lack of support, needing patches downloaded to be compatible with most games.

My first ever laptop had AMD Turion and gaming pc had an AMD Phenom X4 955 Cpu's and the Phenom to this day is still good and still use it for a NAS now. It's super quick for what I need it to do.

From thieves to the morally superior business, how times change. It's nice to see a corporation to get better rather than sink lower for once.

I feel that linus should have mentioned Intel playing dirty with oems highly contributed to amd's decline in the mid 2000s.

My first pc was a 486. I delivered papers for about 2 years to buy that thing. 33mhz/ 100mhz with the turbo button on, 4 mb of ram running Norton commander :) Later in life I also had an Athlon 2 and a phenom 2 1100t black that I rocked all the way up to when ryzen came out, and on my second ryzen chip for a couple of years now. I have had a good time with AMD through the years.

1:40 That's my printer there, down on the right left corner with the missing plastic cover... An HP LaserJet 6P/MP from 2007... It was a great printer back in the days, and expensive as hell.

My A10-7850k is still Strong in 2021 "It might be time to retire 😅" New model are very shiny

AMD makes a crazy amount of CPUs. My first CPU was a Bulldozer then I upgraded to Ryzen. I've never had an Intel PC. Go Team Red!

My childhood PC was a Athlon 64 X2. It was pretty slow in my memory because it was the "family PC" which means its full of virus. But I began my journey in computer hardware from there and performed my first Windows reinstall on that PC. It ran great afterwards. I spent many hour in GTA SA on the machine, and its always gonna be a part of me despite it died a few years ago.

I've had most of these. A K6, an Athlon Xp Barton, a Phenom x4 and x6, a couple A8's and a few Ryzens now.

Luckily Intel licensed the x86 architecture for an unlimited time... We wouldn't have got Ryzen if not that...

Take a shot every time Linus says “86” …….. and dead 💀

I had a K6-III+ back in the day. It’s hard to overstate just how amazing that chip was. To go from a 133MHz Pentium MMX to a chip that could do 600MHz+ was amazing… all without touching any other components. Well besides moving jumpers around on the motherboard to set bus speed, voltage, and clock multiplier.

My first custom build was on the FX-series chips. Bulldozer might have been flawed but I still have nostalgia for it.

i love how after 15 years of amd failing they just decided to make cpus on a new architecture and annhilate intel

Started with a triple-core AMD Athlon II X3, upgraded that PC to a Athlon II X4 later. Next PC had a 8-core FX-8350. Current PC had a Ryzen 2700x, currently has a 3900x

love the techquickies on pc/tech history

My K6-2 400 and Voodoo2 SLI setup was sick.

Amd's new performance uplift per zeneration is impressive

Ah, the good old days when AMD CPUs could actually explode ^^

My first PC build started with a FX 4100, then my youtubing career took off with a 8320e because my motherboard couldn't go beyond 95w but that board and the two CPU's got me through nearly 7 years of gaming and school and video and music production before my rebuild with a Ryzen 2600x and a stronger GPU and ram.

I had the Athlon XP, the AMD Fusion E-450 and now I have the new Athlon based on ZEN, very good budget processors

When you consider the fundamentals of processing capacity over speed it makes sense AMD are leading today.

When you're so early you can't think of something funny to comment

Amazing video ! So much history explained.

4:40 I actually own an Opteron-based system, it's a dual-core AMD Opteron 165 with an nVidia 8600 GT graphics card, the machine is from 2005 and I currently have Windows XP and Windows Vista SP2 on it

Remember when Linus told us to buy Ryzen Gen 1 then laughed calling us "Poor Suckers" a year later?

AMD makes very good CPUs! Hail Ryzen!

Some mention of their acquisition of NexGen before K6 would have been nice. Their Nx586 CPUs were pretty awesome in the budget segement.

I LOVED my K6-2 and my obsidian Voodoo cards in SLI! Fricking great system!

Intel’s own friend betrayed them and still won

Why do all these videos look like they were made 5 years ago (not talking about bad quality)

One of our home pcs had Am486 DX4 120 with a 40mhz FSB and man that thing flew. It could run some early Pentium games such as Starcraft 1 with only a tiny bit of lag at the beginning during the loading phases.

2:37, ah, the K5-PR100, CPU in my first ever PC back in 1997... Good times!

Bad scripted video: how you can tell if a channel is yeah in bed with Intel? emphasize the negatives of AMD old cpus vs intel ones A LOT many times and with specific vibrant tone, expression, then pass fast all the AMD CPUs that kicked Intel for years in the balls like Athlon x64, don't mention that AMD was the first that did x64 for years vs Intel and multicore CPUs again ahead of Intel, until Core2Duo when they had completion, downplay all those years, and then go back to emfasize the bad FX bulldozer series but mentioning the "superiority" of greedy Intel and they quadcore cpus...and finally talk about Zen once and not mentioning Z2 and z3 that is kicking Intel to the ground for years now in performance, consumption and sales. But for the bad FX we even put a sinking ship.... yeah. nice script guys! LTT fan boys you can attack as much as you like and tell me the bs excuses about giving the blue few hard videos, but you don't know that they get paid every time they mention the word "intel"!. They promote Intel even by talking "harshly a bit" to them or not emphasizing AMD superiority. His real character and enthusiasm is only in some unscripted videos where they build AMD servers. There you see an honest Linus, not a "bussiness" in bed with Intel.

I remember my sempron 3000+ back in the days. It was reaching stable 2700mhz with mediocre aftermarket cooling. 50% more from stock. Also my next cpu, Athlon 3200+ was reaching about 40% overclock. Those were the days

Im from Malaysia 🇲🇾 and currently work at amd factory. Glad to be part of the family.

My first computer was a Tandy PC-1000, running an AMD-manufactured Intel 8086-2.