What is the Full Form of AMD ?

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.


Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American Multinational company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company manufactures one of the finest range of processors for commercial and consumer market. It designs and develops microprocessor products, such as central processing units (CPU) and accelerated processing units (APU) for servers, desktop computers, and mobile devices.

The company was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and his seven friends. AMD is known to be the biggest competition of Intel in the manufacturing of processor for personal computers. The company has been listed in the largest stock exchanges of U.S. namely NYSE and NASDAQ.

The product line of the company include:-

  • Microprocessors
  • Motherboard chipsets
  • Embedded processors and graphics processors for servers
  • Workstations and personal computers
  • Embedded systems applications