Advanced Micro Devices, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2400 / CC BY SA 3.0 #Companies_in_the_NASDAQ-100 #Companies_listed_on_the_Nasdaq #Advanced_Micro_Devices #Fabless_semiconductor_companies #Motherboard_companies #Semiconductor_companies_of_the_United_States #Manufacturing_companies_based_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area #Technology_companies_based_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area #Companies_based_in_Santa_Clara,_California #American_companies_established_in_1969 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. While it initially manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing, a practice known as going fabless, after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations, personal computers and embedded system applications. AMD's former headquarters in Sunnyvale, California （demolished in 2019） AMD's campus in Markham, Ontario, Canada, formerly ATI headquarters AMD's LEED-certified Lone Star campus in Austin, Texas Advanced Micro Devices was formally incorporated by Jerry Sanders, along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor, on May 1, 1969. Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had, like many Fairchild executives, grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within the company. He later decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company. Robert Noyce, who had developed the first silicon integrated circuit at Fairchild in 1959, had left Fairchild together with Gordon Moore and founded the semiconductor company Intel in July 1968. In September 1969, AMD moved from its temporary location in Santa Clara to Sunnyvale, California. To immedia...