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 From : Andrew Miheev                       2:5075/5.2      Wed 29 Jan 97 06:27 
 Subj :  ଥ AMD                                                             


Sat Jan 25 1997 12:41, Sewa Makhinya wrote to Alexander Gordeev:

 ST>>>   ᪮p ᥣ AMD y y Intel 孮,    ⠬
 ST>>> y     (᪮p 祣)  y  p.
 AG>> AMD,  ᮦ, 祣  㯠,  p p   
 AG>> p騥 ⥫᪨ pp.  ᢮ p ( ⠪ 5-7, /

 SM>    ⠪. ଠ AMD 뫠 ᭮  ࠧ Intel  楫
 SM> ᪠ ஢  孮      魮 Intel.

[쭥訩 p 饭]

H  p  . 8-)  ⥡  p, ᯥ樠쭮  AMD(www.amd.com):

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1969-74 - Finding Opportunity

By May 1, 1969, Jerry Sanders and seven others had been toiling for months to
pull together their scrappy start-up. The year before, Jerry had left his job as
director of worldwide marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor, and he now found
himself heading a team committed to a well-defined mission--building a
successful semiconductor company by offering building blocks of ever-increasing 
complexity to benefit the manufacturers of electronic equipment in the
computation, communication and instrumentation markets.

Although the company was initially headquartered in the living room of one of
the co-founders, John Carey, it soon moved to two rooms in the back of a
rugcutting company in Santa Clara. By September, AMD had raised the money it
needed to begin manufacturing products and moved into its first permanent home, 
901 Thompson Place in Sunnyvale.

During the company's first years, the vast majority of its products were
alternate-source devices, products obtained from other companies that were then 
redesigned for greater speed and efficiency. "Parametric superiority" were the
watchwords of AMD even then. To give the products even more of a selling edge,
the company instituted a guarantee of quality unprecedented in the industry--all
products would be made and tested to stringent MIL-STD-883, regardless of who
the customer was and at no extra cost.

By the end of AMD's fifth year, there were nearly 1,500 employees making over
200 different products--many of them proprietary-and bringing in nearly $26.5
million in annual sales.

FLASHBACK
     May 1, 1969--AMD incorporates with $100,000.
     September 1969--The company moves to new headquarters at 901 Thompson
Place, Sunnyvale.
     November 1969--First good die emerges from Fab 1, the Am9300, a 4-bit MSI
shift register.
     May 1970--AMD ends its first year with 53 employees and 18 products, but
still no sales.
     1970--First proprietary product, the Am2501, introduced.
     November 1972--Producing wafers in newly built 902 Thompson Place.
     September 1972--AMD goes public, issuing 525,000 shares at $15 a share.
     January 1973--First overseas manufacturing base in Penang, Malaysia, in
volume production.
     1974--AMD closes fifth fiscal year with $26.5 million in sales.

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p - Fairchild Semiconductor,  p p⠫  ⮣ 騩 p
AMD.  ᫨  ᬮp ⥫쭮  FLASHBACK,  㢨 ⠬  p
,  饥   ⭮襭  ⥫,  ⥬  ᮡ⢥
ppp (祭 ) ᨫ쭮 ⫨騩  ᥣ ⥫.
 㦥 ᠬ... 8-)


 , 奨.

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