ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC (AMD)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) designs high-performance and AI computing products. Its portfolio includes AI-optimized CPUs, GPUs, networking products and software, along with semi-custom and adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs) and accelerated processing units (APUs). The company positions itself as a full-stack provider across cloud and AI infrastructure, embedded systems, AI PCs and gaming. It also develops software stacks, including the open ROCm platform, and offers rack-scale data center platform designs. In 2025 it acquired ZT Group Int'l (retaining the ZT Design operations), sold the ZT manufacturing business to Sanmina in October 2025, and made other acquisitions in software, co-packaged optics and AI inference.

AMD reports three segments. The Data Center segment includes EPYC server CPUs, Instinct AI accelerators and GPUs, Radeon PRO V visual cloud GPUs, FPGAs and adaptive SoCs (Virtex, Kintex, Artix, Spartan, Zynq, Versal, Alveo cards), and networking products such as Pensando DPUs and AI NICs and Solarflare low-latency adapters. The Client and Gaming segment includes Ryzen, Ryzen AI, Ryzen PRO and Threadripper desktop and notebook CPUs and APUs, chipsets, Radeon discrete and professional GPUs, and semi-custom SoCs and development services. Its semi-custom chips power the Sony PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox Series S and X, and the Valve Steam Machine. The Embedded segment includes embedded EPYC and Ryzen CPUs and APUs, FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, Kria system-on-modules, development boards and kits, and design tools such as Vivado, Vitis and Vitis AI. An All Other category is not a reportable segment, and AMD may occasionally sell or license parts of its IP portfolio.

Customers include large hyperscale cloud providers, OEMs, ODMs, distributors and select direct customers. Data center customers include IaaS cloud providers, and in October 2025 AMD signed a product purchase agreement with OpenAI to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, starting with Instinct MI450 series products. Client products serve consumers, creators, gamers and enterprises through PC OEMs and distributors. Embedded products serve aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial, vision and healthcare, communications infrastructure, test and measurement, audio/video/broadcast, storage and networking markets. Capital markets firms use Solarflare adapters.

AMD sells through a direct sales force, OEMs, and independent distributors and sales representatives in domestic and international markets. Sales generally follow customer forecasts without minimum purchase commitments and are documented through purchase orders and contractual agreements. Products typically carry a one-year warranty, with up to three years for certain product types. The text does not describe suppliers, manufacturing, competitors or headquarters.