About AMD
AMD designs processors and accelerators across several product lines. These include EPYC server CPUs, Instinct data center GPUs for AI and high performance computing, Ryzen client processors, Radeon graphics cards, and FPGAs and adaptive SoCs from its Embedded business. Its ROCm software supports Instinct GPUs. AMD does not own fabs. It relies mainly on TSMC for wafers, with packaging and test handled by partners in Asia. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
AMD was founded in 1969 and is based in Santa Clara, CA, United States. It is listed under GPUs, AI Accelerators, HPC & AI Systems, CPUs & RISC-V. Its shares trade as AMD on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- GPUs
- AI Accelerators
What AMD works on
GPUs
A GPU, or graphics processing unit, is a chip with thousands of small cores that can run the same operation on a lot of data at the same time. It was first built to draw images in games. The same design suits any job that applies simple maths to large arrays of numbers.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
HPC & AI Systems
High-performance computing (HPC) means using very large clusters of processors working together to solve problems that one machine cannot handle in a reasonable time. These clusters are called supercomputers. They run weather models, physics simulations and, increasingly, AI training.
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