Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Advance Micro Devices is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that was founded on May 1, 1969 by a group of former executives from Fairchild Semiconductor, which included Jerry Sanders III and Edwin Turney. The firm manufactures computer processors and other related technologies for commercial and consumer markets. AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture and also one of the largest suppliers of graphics processing units.