Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices

A community portal about Advanced Micro Devices with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second... [more]

A community portal about Advanced Micro Devices with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. It is the second-largest supplier of x86 -compatible processors, and was once a leading supplier of non-volatile flash memory. It was founded in 1969 by a group of former executives from Fairchild Semiconductor, including Jerry Sanders, III. AMD's current Chairman and CEO is Dr. Hector Ruiz. The current president and Chief Operating Officer is Dirk Meyer.

Advanced Micro Devices ' recent move to get out of the semiconductor fabrication business acknowledges that the chief perk of making chips--owning a fabrication facility--is now too expensive for all but a handful of companies. In the past several ...
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