Summary
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Computing and Graphics; and Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom. Its products include x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, discrete and integrated graphics processing units (GPUs), data center and professional GPUs, and development services; and server and embedded processors, and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products, development services, and technology for game consoles. The company provides processors for desktop and notebook personal computers under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, Ryzen Threadripper, Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, AMD FX, AMD A-Series, and AMD PRO A-Series processors brands; discrete GPUs for desktop and notebook PCs under the AMD Radeon graphics, AMD Embedded Radeon graphics brands; and professional graphics products under the AMD Radeon Pro and AMD FirePro graphics brands. It also offers Radeon Instinct, Radeon PRO V-series, and AMD Instinct accelerators for servers; chipsets under the AMD trademark; microprocessors for servers under the AMD EPYC; embedded processor solutions under the AMD Athlon, AMD Geode, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, AMD R-Series, and G-Series processors brands; and customer-specific solutions based on AMD CPU, GPU, and multi-media technologies, as well as semi-custom SoC products. It serves original equipment manufacturers, public cloud service providers, original design manufacturers, system integrators, independent distributors, online retailers, and add-in-board manufacturers through its direct sales force, independent distributors, and sales representatives. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Introduction
Advanced Micro Devices Incorporation, commonly abbreviated to AMD, is a semiconductor company focused on offering crucial computer hardware such as central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU), which AMD are well known for.
AMD is a multinational company which started off in America where AMD’s first few products were exclusively memory chips and other minor components used for building computers. Later on AMD expanded into the microprocessor market competing against the likes of Intel, even up to this day. Though they struggled at first, the experienced a monumental boom and are the semiconductor powerhouse that is known today with many common household appliances containing AMD components such as personal computers, laptops, gaming consoles as well as being in a majority of important settings such as servers, supercomputers, automotives and more.
Initially, AMD produced its own processors all within its own factories for manufacturing but in 2009, AMD went fabless, a process in which they outsource their manufacturing to another company. This meant that AMD could repurpose and focus more on its staff on research and development, giving AMD a more competitive advantage in the rapid and developing semiconductor market against the likes of companies such as Intel or Nvidia.