Background Overview

Overview

• Founded in 1969
• Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California
• 13,200 employees worldwide
• More than 50 percent of sales are international
• Global manufacturing: U.S., Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Germany, China

Target Markets

• Personal and networked computation and communications
• Major market segments
  • Personal computing
    • Consumer and business desktop and notebook systems
  • Communications
    • Local and wide-area networking
    • Home networking
    • Telephony
      • wired

       

Industry Leadership

• AMD is among the market leaders in each of its core businesses: microprocessors, non-volatile memories and circuits for communications and networking applications.
  • Processors
  • Embedded Processors
  • Communication Products
  • Networking Products
  • Memory Products

Outlook

AMD is well positioned for the convergence of computing and communications

• Manufacturing processes and capacity to meet the volume needs of customers worldwide
• Strategic customer relationships
• Family of independently developed Microsoft® Windows® compatible PC processors
• Flash single power supply industry standard
• Broad communications product family