Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American company from Sunnyvale, California, that makes computer hardware components. It makes many different computer parts, but it is most famous for its central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs). Another important product are their motherboard chipsets for their CPUs.

 History 
AMD started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company, and competitor of AMD. In 2003, AMD released the Opteron, which was the first 64-bit x86 CPU. In 2006, AMD bought ATI Technologies with $4.3 billion of cash and 52 million AMD stocks. In 2020, AMD said that they are buying Xilinx, a company that makes circuits that can be changed using computer code (FPGA).

 Products 
Ryzen is AMD's brand name for their CPUs for normal use. They have between 2 and 64 cores and can achieve speeds above 5 gigahertz (GHz).
Radeon is their brand name for other computer products like GPUs and computer parts made by other companies that AMD put their brand on (OEM).

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Category:American computer hardware manufacturers
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