Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is an American manufacturer of integrated circuits. AMD focuses on the personal and networked computation and communications market, producing microprocessors, embedded processors and related peripherals, memories, programmable logic devices, circuits for telecommunications and networking applications.. 1995-02-27.
==History==
Advanced Micro Devices was founded in 1969. By 1995, AMD was the fifth-largest IC manufacturer, with 12,000 employees in the United States and around the world, including manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; , Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; , ; and Singapore.
==Products==
AMD developed the series of RISC processors (used in LaserWriter printers from Apple Computer) and clones of Intel's x86 microprocessors. In 2006, AMD acquired ATI Technologies to aid in the strategic development of its generation of computer processors, which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within a single chip. ATI became known as the Radeon Technologies Group and the ATI brand name ceased to be used for since 2010.
 Apple has used AMD graphics cards in many of its Mac computers, though it has been switching its own in-house GPU designs as part of its transition to Apple Silicon.
==References==
==External links==
*AMD official website
*AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) apps at the Apple App Store
*AMD OS X - the home of macOS on AMD CPUs
*AMD and AMD Radeon at Logopedia
* at Wikipedia
 
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