Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 1969
Workforce: ~8,900
Company Overview: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is a semiconductor designing and manufacturing company that offers x86 microprocessors, as a standalone device or used in an accelerated processing unit (APU); chipsets; professional GPUs (graphics processing units), and integrated GPUs. The company also provides embedded and server processors and semi-custom System on Chip (SoC) and technologies for the game consoles. It operates in two reportable segments, namely the computing and graphics segment and the enterprise, embedded and semi-custom segment. The computing and graphics segment include notebook and desktop processors and chipsets, professional GPUs, and licensing portions of the intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The enterprise embedded and semi-custom segment includes development services, server, embedded processors, and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) Components and technology for game consoles. The company operates globally in the United States, China, Japan, Europe, Singapore, and other countries.
Strategy
Being the only company that produces advanced graphical and computing technology across the globe, AMD enjoys a significant market share in the semiconductor business. Also, it focuses on introducing a variety of high-performance products in the market to meet the technological advancements and gain a competitive advantage. Heavy investments in the research & development of innovative products and services enable the company to be highly competitive.



