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* Unknown: [[Rapport]] was founded, a fabless semiconductor company that focused massively parallel chips. | * Unknown: [[Rapport]] was founded, a fabless semiconductor company that focused massively parallel chips. | ||
Revision as of 22:09, 16 November 2016
In 2001:
- May 14: AMD announces the Athlon 4 family of high-performance mobile microprocessors
- June 4-8: Computex Taipei 2001 tradeshow
- October 9: AMD announces the Athlon XP family of high-performance processors, a successor to Athlon
- October 15: Microprocessor Forum at San Jose, CA
- AMD discloses their upcoming microarchitecture K8 "Hammer".
- December 3: AMD announced the world's fastest CMOS transistor at the time, a prototype CMOS transistor with a 15-nanometer gate length and an 0.8 operating voltage with a switching speed of 300 fs (0.3 ps).
- Unknown: Rapport was founded, a fabless semiconductor company that focused massively parallel chips.