Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
	Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2020
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: AMD; NASDAQ 100 component; S&P 500 component;
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	May 1, 1969; 55 years ago
Founder	Jerry Sanders
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	John Edward Caldwell (chairman); Lisa Su (president and CEO); Mark Papermaster (CTO);
Products	Central processing units; Graphics processing unit; Microprocessors; System on a chips (SoCs); Motherboard chipsets; Network interface controllers; Embedded processors; Solid-state drives; Drivers; TV accessories
Revenue	$22.7 billion (2023)
Operating income	$401 million (2023)
Net income	$854 million (2023)
Total assets	$12.4 billion (2021)
Total equity	$7.5 billion (2021)
Number of employees	15,500 (2021)
Website	www.amd.com

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a large American company from Sunnyvale, California that makes computer hardware components. It makes many different computer parts, but it is most famous for its central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs). Another important product are their motherboard chipsets for their CPUs. AMD started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company, and competitor of AMD. In 2006, AMD bought ATI Technologies with $4.3 billion of cash and 52 million AMD stocks.^[3] In 2020, AMD said that they are buying Xilinx, a company that makes circuits that can be changed using computer code (FPGA).^[4]

Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs for normal use. Ryzen CPUs have between 2 and 64 cores and can achieve speeds above 5 gigahertz (GHz). Radeon is their brand name for other computer products like GPUs and computer parts made by other companies that AMD put their brand on (OEM).