AMD

(ADM) Advanced Micro Devices is an American manufacturer of semiconductors based in Sunnyvale, California. The company was founded in 1969 by a group of former executives from Fairchild Semiconuctor. AMD is the world's second-largest supplier of x86 based processors and the world's third largest supplier of graphics cards and GPUs, after taking control over ATI in 2006. AMD also owns a 21% share of Spansion, a supplier of non volatile flash memory. In 2007 the company ranked eleventh among semiconductor manufacturers.