| AMD Am9080 | |
| Produced-Start: | 1975 |
| Soldby: | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) |
| Designfirm: | Intel |
| Manuf1: | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) |
| Slowest: | 2 |
| Fastest: | 4 |
| Slow-Unit: | MHz |
| Fast-Unit: | MHz |
| Data-Width: | 8 bits |
| Address-Width: | 16 bits |
| Size-From: | 6 µm |
| Transistors: | 4,500 or 6000 |
| Numcores: | 1 |
| Pack1: | 40-pin DIP |
| Sock1: | DIP40 |
| Successor: | Am8086 |
| Support Status: | Unsupported |
The Am9080 was a CPU manufactured by AMD. Originally produced without license as a clone of the Intel 8080, the processor was reverse-engineered by Ashawna Hailey, Kim Hailey and Jay Kumar by photographing an early Intel chip and developing a schematic and logic diagrams from the images.[1] In initial production, the chips cost about 50 cents to make, yielding 100 chips per wafer, and were sold into the military market for $700 each. This CPU operated at a speed of 2 MHz. Later, an agreement was made with Intel to become a licensed second source for the 8080, enabling both manufacturers' chips to break into markets that would not accept a single-sourced part.