Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD )

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While initially it manufactured its own processors, the company became fabless after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers, and embedded systems applications.

AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture and also one of the largest suppliers of graphics processing units. It also owns 8.6% of Spansion, a supplier of non-volatile flash memory.^[7]

AMD is the only significant rival to Intel in the central processor (CPU) market for (x86 based) personal computers. Since acquiringATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have dominated the discrete graphics processor unit (GPU) market.