Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American company from Sunnyvale, California that makes computer hardware components. It makes many different computer parts, but it is most famous for its central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs). Another important product are their motherboard chipsets for their CPUs.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2020
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: AMD NASDAQ 100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	May 1, 1969; 56 years ago (1969-05-01)
Founder	Jerry Sanders
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	John Edward Caldwell (chairman) Lisa Su (president and CEO) Mark Papermaster (CTO)
Products	Central processing units Graphics processing unit Microprocessors System on a chips (SoCs) Motherboard chipsets Network interface controllers Embedded processors Solid-state drives Drivers TV accessories
Revenue	$22.7 billion[1] (2023)
Operating income	$401 million[1] (2023)
Net income	$854 million[1] (2023)
Total assets	$12.4 billion[2] (2021)
Total equity	$7.5 billion[2] (2021)
Number of employees	15,500 (2021)
Website	www.amd.com

History

AMD started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company, and competitor of AMD. In 2003, AMD released the Opteron, which was the first 64-bit x86 CPU. In 2006, AMD bought ATI Technologies with $4.3 billion of cash and 52 million AMD stocks.^[3] In 2020, AMD said that they are buying Xilinx, a company that makes circuits that can be changed using computer code (FPGA).^[4]

Products

AMD makes CPUs for desktop PCs.

Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs for normal use. They have between 2 and 64 cores and can achieve speeds above 5 gigahertz (GHz).

AMD makes graphics cards under their Radeon brand.

Radeon is their brand name for other computer products like GPUs and computer parts made by other companies that AMD put their brand on (OEM).