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.
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Vinony's link graph records 48 inbound references to NexGen, and connects out to AMD, semiconductor and IBM.
It sits within the topics 1986 establishments in California, 1994 initial public offerings and 1996 disestablishments in California.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
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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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NexGen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.