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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a large 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. AMD started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company, and competitor of AMD. 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]
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 Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2020 | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | May 1, 1969 |
| Founder | Jerry Sanders |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| 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) |
| $401 million[1] (2023) | |
| $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 |
Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs for normal use. Ryzen CPUs have between 2 and 64 cores and can achieve speeds above 5 gigahertz (GHz). 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).
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