Founded May 1,
1969
by Jerry Sanders, Advanced Micro Devices
has became a large
competitor in the Pentium-compatible chip market with their own line of Intel-compatible
processors.
STOCK SYMBOL:
AMD
Current listed products
Hardware
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Company news
October 09, 2001 - AMD announces a new branding scheme.
Instead of identifying processors by their clock speed the AMD
XP will bear monikers of 1800+, 1700+, 1600+ and 1500+,
with each lower model number representing a lower clock speed.
August 14, 2001 - IBM stops
selling AMD-based PCs in North America.
March 1991 - AMD introduces the AM386
microprocessor family.
1996 - AMD acquires
NexGen.
April 1987 - AMD and
Monolithic Memories Inc. agree to merge.
