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.

AMD Am9080

General information
Launched	1975
Marketed by	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Designed by	Intel
Common manufacturer(s)	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	2 MHz to 4 MHz
Data width	8 bits
Address width	16 bits
Architecture and classification
Technology node	6 µm
Physical specifications
Transistors	4,500 or 6000
Cores	1
Package(s)	40-pin DIP
Socket(s)	DIP40
History
Successor(s)	Am8086
Support status
Unsupported