00:00AMD has been through some of the best times in their company history over these past couple years.
00:04The release of their RISN processors back in 2017 was their first real shot at competing with Intel in the
00:10consumer market since the days of the old Athlon processors.
00:13They not only made a name for themselves by competing with Intel, but they did it while undercutting them in
00:18price and offering better performance per dollar.
00:21To make matters even better, AMD then went ahead and released their epic lineup of processors which blew Intel out
00:27of the water when it came to multi-threaded performance.
00:30But it hasn't always been sunshine and rainbows for AMD.
00:33In fact, there have been several times throughout their history where they almost called it quits.
00:38One of those times happened to be during the dot-com crash of the early 2000s.
00:43At the time, AMD was depending heavily on sales from the OEM market, and when that market collapsed, so did
00:49their revenue.
00:50But luckily, they were able to hold out until things picked back up again.
00:54But that near-death experience was enough for AMD to realize that they needed to diversify their sales channels.
00:59Just a few years later, this led them to develop their first ever desktop AP, the AMD X2-3100 Plus,
01:06which integrated an optical drive into the CPU package itself.
01:10This was a very interesting processor, but let's face it, it wasn't exactly powerful enough to handle gaming.
01:15Fast forward to 2014, and we see AMD releasing their first-ever HSA-based APS, the A4, A6, and a
01:238-7th generation chips.
01:25These processors were targeted at the low end of the market, and were actually quite impressive when it came to
01:30integrated graphics.
01:31The A87650 Cake was actually capable of playing games like CSGO at decent frame rates.
01:38But one thing that really stood out about these APAs is that they had a pretty big flaw.
01:42If you ran your computer at higher voltages than what was recommended, you could damage your CPU.
01:47That's right!
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