Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While initially it manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing, a practice known as fabless, after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations, personal computers and embedded system applications.
AMD is the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the marke. Since acquiring ATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have maintained a duopoly in the discrete graphics processing unit market.[4]
CPU and APU products[edit]
AMD's portfolio of CPUs and APUs as of 2018 such as:
•	Athlon - brand of entry level APUs
•	Ryzen - brand of consumer CPUs and APUs
•	Threadripper - brand of prosumer/professional CPUs
•	Epyc - brand of server CPUs
Graphics products[edit]
AMD's portfolio of dedicated graphics processors as of 2017 such as:
•	Radeon – brand for consumer line of graphics cards; the brand name originated with ATI.
o	Mobility Radeon offers power-optimized versions of Radeon graphics chips for use in laptops.
•	Radeon Pro – Workstation Graphics card brand. Successor to the FirePro brand.
•	Radeon Instinct - brand of server and workstation targeted machine learning and GPGPU products