Advanced Micro Devices
Enabling today.
Inspiring tomorrow. |
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Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: AMD S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | May 1, 1969 |
| Founder | Jerry Sanders |
| Headquarters | One AMD Place, Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Lisa Su (CEO and President) John Edward Caldwell (Chairman of the Board) |
| Products |
Microprocessors Motherboard SSDs Graphics processing units Random-access memory TV tuner cards |
| Revenue |
 $1.307 billion (Q3 2016) |
| $70 million (Q3 2016) |
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$27 million (Q3 2016) |
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| Total assets | $3.616 billion (Q3 2016) |
| Total equity |
$385 million (Q3 2016) |
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Number of employees
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8,306 (Q3 2016) |
| Website | www |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While initially it manufactured its own processors, the company became fabless after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers, and embedded systems applications.
AMD is the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the market for x86-based microprocessors. Since acquiring ATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have dominated the discrete Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) market.
Advanced Micro Devices was formally incorporated on May 1, 1969, by Jerry Sanders, along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor. Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had like many Fairchild executives grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within that company, and decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company. The previous year Robert Noyce, who had invented the first practical integrated circuit or microchip in 1959 at Fairchild, had left Fairchild together with Gordon Moore and founded the semiconductor company Intel in July 1968.
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