AMD's Am9080 at 50: The reverse-engineered chip that launched AMD into the CPU era

The Am9080 arrived in mass production in 1975 as AMD's version of Intel's 8080 – an instruction-set-compatible implementation built on AMD's own n-channel MOS process rather ...
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AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago ...

The chip which paved the way for AMD’s illustrious future in the CPU business entered mass production 50 years ago.