Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops central processing units, graphics processing units, field-programmable gate arrays, system-on-chips, and high-performance computer components. AMD serves a wide range of business and consumer markets, including personal computers, gaming, data centers, and embedded systems. AMD's main products include microprocessors, embedded processors, and graphics processors for servers, workstations, PCs, and embedded system applications, as well as chipsets for motherboards. The company has also expanded into new markets, such as data centers, gaming, and high-performance computing. AMD's processors are used in a wide range of computing devices, including PCs, servers, laptops, and gaming consoles. Initially manufacturing its own processors, the company outsourced its manufacturing after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. Through its Xilinx acquisition in 2022, AMD offers field-programmable gate array products. AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and a group of his fellow Fairchild Semiconductor colleagues. Wikipedia