Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. AMD designs and produces a broad range of computing and graphics solutions, including x86 and ARM-based processors (Ryzen for consumer desktops and laptops, EPYC for servers), Radeon graphics processing units (GPUs), and accelerated processing units (APUs) that combine CPU and GPU cores on a single chip. Over the decades AMD has competed directly with other major chipmakers, most notably Intel and NVIDIA, and has expanded its product portfolio through key moves such as the acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006 (which brought the Radeon GPU brand into AMD) and the development of the Zen CPU microarchitecture that revitalized its processor competitiveness starting in 2017.

AMD also provides a wide set of software and driver packages for its hardware (for example Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition and related installer executables like radeo...