What Happened to the AMD 386? Why the AMD 386 Disappeared

The AMD Am386 ran at 40 MHz when Intel's 386 stopped at 33, yet it had to beat Intel in court before it was safe to sell. By the time the last appeal ended, PC makers had already moved on to the 486. AMD signed a ten-year second-source deal with Intel in February 1982. Intel quietly stopped accepting AMD designs, AMD demanded arbitration in 1987, and hearings ran 355 days. AMD shipped its own 386 in March 1991 and took roughly 40% of that market within a year. The arbitrator awarded only $15 million, partly blaming AMD's own delay. The California Supreme Court upheld his award on December 30, 1994. In this documentary: • 1985: The Intel memo that said to keep the negotiations going • 1991: The ruling that made 386 a number anyone could use • 1992: Why the arbitrator's license covered no future chips • 1995: The settlement that sent AMD toward the K5 If a 386DX-40 sat on the motherboard of your first clone PC, tell us who built the machine. What remains is one settlement line that barred AMD from copying the Pentium and left it to design its own processors. Subscribe for more documentaries on the processor fights of the PC era. Sources: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp., 9 Cal.4th 362 - Supreme Court of California (Stanford SCOCAL), 1994: https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/advanc... Advanced Micro Devices Form 10-K for fiscal 1994 - Advanced Micro Devices, 1995: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/24... AMD Awarded 386 Rights, $15 Million Damages - Microprocessor Report, Michael Slater, 1992: https://www.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/A... Intel Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal 1993 - Intel Corporation, 1994: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50... #AMD386 #Am386 #IntelVsAMD #386DX40 #ChipWars #AMDHistory #IntelHistory #CPUHistory #RetroPC #PCHistory Disclaimer: The voiceover used in this video was generated using AI.