NexGen
Sign in to saveNexGen, Inc. was a private semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed x86 microprocessors until it was purchased by AMD on January 16, 1996. NexGen was a fabless design house that designed its chips but relied on other companies for production. NexGen's chips were produced by IBM's Microelectronics division in Burlington, Vermont, alongside PowerPC and DRAM parts.
Key facts
- Company.name
- NexGen, Inc.
- Company.fate
- Acquired by AMD
- Company.location
- Milpitas, California, US
- Company.industry
- Semiconductors
- Company.key_people
- Dr. A. Thampy Thomas
- Company.products
- Microprocessors
- Company.parent
- AMD
- Company.homepage
- www.nexgen.com (archived page from 1996-11-12)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Milpitas
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Followed by
- AMD
- Official website
- www.nexgen.com
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- Commons category
- NexGen
- inception
- 1986-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1996-00-00
- replaced by
- AMD
- product or material produced
- microprocessor
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- References
- External links
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