Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (abbreviated AMD;
NYSE:
AMD) is an American manufacturer of
semiconductors based in
Sunnyvale,
California. The company was founded in 1969 by a group of former executives from
Fairchild Semiconductor, including
Jerry Sanders, III,
Ed Turney, John Carey, Sven Simonsen, Jack Gifford and three members from Gifford's team, Frank Botte, Jim Giles, and Larry Stenger. The current chairman and CEO is
Dr. Héctor Ruiz and the current president and chief operating officer is
Dirk Meyer.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
<
company> (AMD) A US manufacturer of
integrated circuits, founded in 1969. AMD was the fifth-largest IC manufacturer in 1995. AMD focuses on the personal and networked computation and communications market. They produce
microprocessors,
embedded processors and related peripherals, memories,
programmable logic devices, circuits for telecommunications and networking applications.
In 1995, AMD had 12000 employees in the USA and elsewhere and manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; and Singapore.
AMD made the
AMD 2900 series of
bit-slice TTL components and clones of the
Intel 80386 and
Intel 486 microprocessors.
AMD Home.
Address: Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
(1995-02-27)
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