Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

CAGE Codes:

34335                                                    0ALL9                                                    1DR30                                                   3AC88

5K487                                                    6V911                                                    6Y282                                                    AE142

CJ157                                                     U1458

Operating Segments: Computing, Graphics, Gaming

HQ: Santa Clara, California, U.S.

Partner: Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Lenovo, Samsung, Google, Alpha Processor Inc., IBM, Fujitsu, and more

About AMD

In 1969, Jerry Sanders and seven of his colleagues formed the company Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD as they are more commonly known as today. AMD launched their business as a second sourcing supplier, as well as for producing logic chips that met US Military standards. By 1970, they were selling their first products and oversaw a great increase of sales over the next year. By 1972, AMD went public and three years later, they had 212 products on the market, 49 of which were proprietary. By 1975, AMD had also debuted their own microprocessor technology for the consumer market. In 1977, the German manufacturing company, Siemens, bought 20% of AMD’s stocks which gave them the monetary ability to begin microcomputer development, as well as increase their production lines.

By the end of the 1970’s, AMD bought back their shares from Siemens, entered the New York Stock Exchange, and expanded their facilities across the nation and entered their business into the telecommunications market. In the 1980’s, Intel and AMD signed an agreement, as per IBM’s request for Intel, to be second source manufacturers for each other’s equivalent chips. During this time, AMD continued to heavily research new technology and development and became very well regarded as a business, eventually joining the Fortune 500 list. During the microchip sales slump of the mid 1980’s, AMD continued to thrive utilizing aggressive innovation and waves of product releases, this persistence continuing through the end of the decade and into the early 1990’s as they began to compete directly with Intel with their own developed microprocessors. Concurrently, AMD also went public with their successful joint flash memory business venture with Fujitsu in 2005, much to their success. The next year, AMD saw the acquisition of ATI technologies in which they entered the graphics processing market. Up to the present, AMD has conducted multiple successful acquisitions, as well as begun executing a plan to restructure and focus their business on computing and graphics.

Products, Services, and Platforms

• Processors: AMD sells many processors for use in devices such as desktops, laptops, workstations, servers, and more.
• Graphics: AMD has many lines of graphics cards for consumer and business uses, including those such as their Radeon line, embedded lines, semi-custom lines, etc.
• Computer Components and Accessories: AMD offers various products and services for consumers and businesses including motherboards, monitors, accelerators, and more.

Subsidiaries/Partners

AMD has partnered with Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Lenovo, Samsung, Google, Alpha Processor Inc., IBM, Fujitsu, and more during their history. AMD has many subsidiaries, some of those being HiAlgo Inc., AMD Advanced Research LLC, AMD Far East Ltd., AMD International Sales & Service, Ltd., AMD Latin America Ltd., and SeaMicro, Inc.

Competitors

AMD’s competitors include Intel, IBM, NVIDIA Corporation, Analog Devices Inc., ARM, Qualcomm, NXP, and ASUS.