Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Overview

Company Headquarters: US

Founded: 1969

Workforce: ~8,900

Company Overview: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is a semiconductor designing and manufacturing company that offers x86 microprocessors, as a standalone device or used in an accelerated processing unit (APU); chipsets; professional GPUs (graphics processing units), and integrated GPUs. The company also provides embedded and server processors and semi-custom System on Chip (SoC) and technologies for the game consoles. It operates in two reportable segments, namely the computing and graphics segment and the enterprise, embedded and semi-custom segment. The computing and graphics segment include notebook and desktop processors and chipsets, professional GPUs, and licensing portions of the intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The enterprise embedded and semi-custom segment includes development services, server, embedded processors, and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) Components and technology for game consoles. The company operates globally in the United States, China, Japan, Europe, Singapore, and other countries.

Strategy

Being the only company that produces advanced graphical and computing technology across the globe, AMD enjoys a significant market share in the semiconductor business. Also, it focuses on introducing a variety of high-performance products in the market to meet the technological advancements and gain a competitive advantage. Heavy investments in the research & development of innovative products and services enable the company to be highly competitive.

Company Snapshot

$4.27M

Revenue

8,900

Employees

1969

Founded

US

Headquarters

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Valuable intellectual property
Global presence
Strong profitability
Products innovation
Focus on innovation
Wide geographic presence
Increasing profit margins
Strong focus on innovation
Extensive research and development

Weaknesses

High operation costs
Low market share in consumer computing segments
Dependence on third-party manufacturers

Opportunities

Rising need for semiconductors
Strategic partnerships
Growing HPC market offers growth opportunities
Emphasis on product developments

Threats

Intense competition
Global economical conditions
Fluctuating exchange rates
Lack of in-house fabrication facility threatens production
Global economic uncertainty
Strong chipset market competition
Rapid technological changes

Key Developments

Date	Approach	Development
August 2019	Product Development	AMD launched its second-generation Epyc Rome x86 chips, based on its 7nm process technology. The new AMD Epyc 7002 series is a follow-on to the first-generation 14nm Epyc Naples CPUs, released in June 2017. The 7002 processors feature up to 64 “Zen 2” cores per SOC, deliver up to 23 percent more instructions per clock (IPC) per core on server workloads, and up to four times more L3 cache compared to the previous generation, said AMD.
April 2019	Product Development	AMD launched AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 SoC. The new product provides the customers with dual-core, quad-threaded performance, and enables the processors to run without a fan. The product is suitable for applications such as high-performance edge computing, networking, and digital displays.
November 2018	Product Development	AMD launched the world’s first 7nm datacenter GPU—named AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50—designed to deliver high computational performance for cloud computing, high-performance computing, deep learning, and rendering applications. AMD Radeon Instinct accelerators are developed to solve tough and interesting challenges such as climate change, disease prevention, large-scale simulations, and computational biology.

Product Offering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Computing and Graphics
- HPC
- AI Chipset

Financial Performance

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