Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a leading American semiconductor company specializing in high-performance computing, graphics, and adaptive SoC solutions. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, AMD is a key competitor to Intel in CPUs and NVIDIA in GPUs. The company is known for its x86 processors, Radeon GPUs, EPYC server chips, and adaptive computing solutions (including FPGAs after acquiring Xilinx).