AMD HISTORY
AMD spun off its manufacturing arm in 2009, which became which company?
Global Foundries
What is the name of AMD’s AI software stack ecosystem?
ROCm
Who manufactures most Zen 4 and RDNA 3 chips?
TSMC
What year did AMD acquire ATI?
2006
What is AMD’s in-house high-performance interconnect for datacenters?
Infinity Architecture
Which AMD product family heavily uses HBM stacks?
Instinct MI series
What was AMD’s major architectural flop before Zen?
Bulldozer
What major architectural shift made Zen 2 significantly more scalable?
The chiplet architecture (separating core dies and IO die)
What is AMD's First 2nm Chip
EPYC Venice
Which legendary AMD CPU defeated Intel Core 2 Duo in 2003–2005 and made AMD #1 for a short period?
Athlon 64
What type of connector links AMD chiplets?
Infinity Fabric
What node was used for the original Zen 1 cores
14mm
What is the codename of AMD’s first Zen CPU in 2017?
Summit Ridge
What is the microarchitecture used in MI100 GPUs
CNDA
What small physical effect becomes dominant at 2 nm nodes, making scaling difficult?
Quantum tunneling (gate leakage)