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 than a carbon-copy fabrication. That detail matters: the Am9080 wasn't a rebadged Intel part.

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