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K5 was a family of microprocessors designed by AMD and introduced in 1996. K5 models directly rivaled Intel's Pentium processors. These processors were based AMD's K5 Microarchitecture which was their first x86 microarchitecture to be designed in-house from the ground up without licensing or reverse-engineering Intel's architecture.

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designerAMD +
first announcedOctober 24, 1994 +
first launchedMarch 27, 1996 +
full page nameamd/k5 +
instance ofmicroprocessor family +
instruction set architectureIA-32 +
main designerAMD +
manufacturerAMD +
microarchitectureK5 +
nameAMD K5 +
packageSPGA-296 +
process500 nm (0.5 μm, 5.0e-4 mm) + and 350 nm (0.35 μm, 3.5e-4 mm) +
socketSocket 5 + and Socket 7 +
technologyCMOS +
word size32 bit (4 octets, 8 nibbles) +