Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops central processing units, graphics processing units, field-program
Headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in 2020
AMD's former headquarters in Sunnyvale, California (demolished in 2019)
AMD's campus in Markham, Ontario, Canada, ATI's former headquarters
AMD's LEED-certified Lone Star campus in Austin, Texas
Intel Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units and
AMD
…The company's early products were primarily memory chips and other computer components. In 1975, AMD entered the microprocessor market, competing with Intel, its main rival in the industry, by reverse-engineering Intel's 8080. This led to the initial cross-license agreement allowing AMD to build legal clones…
Headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in 2023
Intel founders Robert Noyce (middle) and Gordon Moore (right) along with Andy Grove, in 1978
Federico Faggin, designer of the Intel 4004
The die from an Intel 8742, an 8-bit microcontroller that includes a CPU running at 12 MHz, 128 bytes of RAM, 2048 bytes of EPROM, and I/O in the same chip