AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

Overview

American multinational semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

Key Facts

• Founded: 1969-05-01

• Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

• Status: Public (NASDAQ: AMD)

• CEO: Lisa Su

• Founded by Jerry Sanders and others who left Fairchild Semiconductor

• x86-64 (AMD64) extension created by AMD, now the industry standard

• EPYC server CPUs compete with Intel Xeon

• Ryzen desktop CPUs are major competitors to Intel Core

• Radeon GPUs compete with Nvidia in consumer and data center markets

• Acquired Xilinx (2022, $49B) for FPGA and adaptive computing

Products Mentioned in Wiki

• x86-64
• epyc
• ryzen

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