AMD

	AMD
Founded By:	Edwin Turney Jerry Sanders
Founded Year:	May 1, 1969
Key People:	Bruce Claflin (Executive Chairman) Rory Read (CEO)
Industry For:	Semiconductors

About Company

       Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., or  AMD plays a significant role in the design of microprocessors, AMD Family of Accelerated Processing Units (APU) SoCs, graphics and media solutions.Its main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers, and embedded systems applications.

      AMD is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers.

       AMD is the only significant rival to Intel in the central processor (CPU) market for (x86 based) personal computers. Together they held 99.1 percent (Intel 80.3%, AMD 18.8%) of the CPUs sold for quarter three of 2011.[dubious – discuss][7] Since acquiring ATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have dominated the discrete graphics processor unit (GPU) market, together making up virtually 100% of the market.

Official Web-Site:

AMD.com

About Founders

	Name:	Edwin James Turney
	Country	America
	Born	March 26, 1929
	Died	October 15, 2008

	Name:	Walter Jeremiah Sanders III
	Country	America
	Born	September 12, 1936