<company> (AMD) A US manufacturer of integrated circuits,
founded in 1969. AMD was the fifth-largest IC manufacturer in
1995. AMD focuses on the personal and networked computation
and communications market. They produce microprocessors,
embedded processors and related peripherals, memories,
programmable logic devices, circuits for telecommunications
and networking applications.
In 1995, AMD had 12000 employees in the USA and elsewhere and
manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; Aizu-Wakamatsu,
Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; and Singapore.
AMD made the AMD 2900 series of bit-slice TTL components
and clones of the Intel 80386 and Intel 486
microprocessors.
AMD Home.
Address: Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
(1995-02-27)
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