Technology: AMD

Ticker Symbol: AMD

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About the company

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Advanced Micro Devices is a multinational semiconductor and is the world's second biggest producer of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture. AMD features commercial and consumer microprocessors used in PC's, laptops, phones, televisions, and other multimedia end products. Founded in 1969, AMD began as a logic chip and RAM chip maker. Today, AMD focuses on the microprocessor and flash memory market.

AMD's Competitors:

• Tier 1 Competitors - NVIDIA Corp (NVDA), Broadcom Corp (BRCM), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), International Business Machines (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
• Tier 2 Competitors - Texas Instruments (TXN), MIPS Technologies (MIPS), Intel Corp (INTC)

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