Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, graphics processors, and FPGAs for servers, workstations, personal computers, and embedded system applications.

(WOWTIMES) AMD’s history and achievements

• 1969: Advanced Micro Devices was formally incorporated by Jerry Sanders, along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor
• 1971: AMD entered the RAM chip market, beginning with the Am3101, a 64-bit bipolar RAM
• 1972: The company goes public and shortly thereafter begins to make computer chips
• 1982: AMD’s involvement with Intel (INTC) helps it steps things up a notch as it begins supplying computer chips to what later become the biggest name in the industry
• 1991: AMD offers its own microprocessor, the Am386. AMD began to compete directly with Intel
• 2000: the birth of Athlon processor. This was AMD’s big move, as it was the first 1-GHz microprocessor.
• 2003: AMD announces the Opteron chip. This was the first computer chip made by AMD for use in servers. This ups the company’s spread of business
• 2006: AMD acquires ATI Technologies, gaining access to video graphics cards for PCs.
• 2014: Restructured into two segments, one focused on processors for PCs, and the other focused on enterprise endeavors for specialized equipment
• 2018: AMD has announced their new lineup plans, with Ryzen 2. AMD launched CPUs with the 12nm Zen+ microarchitecture.

AMD is a company that has seen a lot of change in the world. Considering how it still operates in the heart of hardware for tech, it seems likely that AMD will continue to see a lot of change in years to come.

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