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| Type | Public |
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| When it was created | May 1, 1969 |
| People who started it | Jerry Sanders |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | amd.com |
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a large American company from Sunnyvale (California) that makes computer hardware. It makes many different computer parts, but it is most famous for its central processing units, or CPUs. Another important product are motherboard chipsets. It started as a company that made products for Intel, another large hardware company. Today's most common CPU made by AMD is the Phenom II and the Athlon II. They have from 1 up to 8 cores (up to 16 cores in server CPUs), at speeds of up to 4 GHz with air cooling (5 GHz with water cooling). In 2006 they bought the company ATI.
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AMD Radeon memory
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AMD processor with Intel logo
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Early AMD 9080 Processor (AMD AM9080ADC / C8080A), 1977
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AMD D8086, 1978