Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and a group of fellow former Fairchild Semiconductor employees. It designs central processing units and graphics processing units for personal computers, servers and data centers, and has long stood as the principal competitor to Intel in CPUs and to NVIDIA in GPUs.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational semiconductor company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, U.S. 1 Connections
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A major semiconductor company; classified in the atlas semiconductor-industry.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Santa Clara, California, U.S.
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May 1, 1969; 57 years ago (1969-05-01)
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