Bulldozer, AMD’s Wreck Modernization: Front Raze and Execution Engine
AMD’s K7 Athlon architecture formed the basis of the company’s CPU offerings for around a decade. Athlon did very well against Intel’s P6 based Pentium III. K8 got the basics right, introduced 64-bit support and an integrated memory controller. And remained reasonably competitive against Netburst. But after 2006, Intel’s Core 2 got the basics right…