Advanced Micro Devices
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 Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2020 | |
| Public | |
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| 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 Systems-on-chip (SoCs) Motherboard chipsets Network interface controllers Embedded processors Solid-state drives Drivers TV accessories |
| Revenue |  $9.76 billion[1] (2020) |
| $1.37 billion[1] (2020) | |
| $2.49 billion[1] (2020) | |
| Total assets | $8.96 billion[1] (2020) |
| Total equity | $5.84 billion[1] (2020) |
| Website | www |
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). Another important product are motherboard chipsets. It started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company. In 2006 they bought ATI Technologies.
Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs. Ryzen CPUs have between 2 and 32 cores and can achieve speeds above 4 Gigahertz (or GHz). Radeon is their brand name for other computer products like GPUs.
