Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2020
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: AMD NASDAQ 100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	May 1, 1969 (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 Systems-on-chip (SoCs) Motherboard chipsets Network interface controllers Embedded processors Solid-state drives Drivers TV accessories
Revenue	$9.76 billion (2020)
Operating income	$1.37 billion (2020)
Net income	$2.49 billion (2020)
Total assets	$8.96 billion (2020)
Total equity	$5.84 billion (2020)
Website	www.amd.com

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a large American company from Sunnyvale, California that makes computer hardware. 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 dollars of cash and 52 million AMD stocks. In 2020 AMD said that they are buying Xilinx, a company that makes circuits that can be changed using computer code (FPGA).

Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs for normal use. Ryzen CPUs has had between 2 and 64 cores and can achieve speeds above 5 Gigahertz (or 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).