AMD

Established	May 1, 1969
CEO	2008 - current: Dirk Meyer 2002 - 2008: Hector Ruiz 1969 - 2002: Jerry Sanders
Website	www.amd.com
Revenue	2007: $6.013 billion 2000: $4.6 billion 1974: 26.5 million
NYSE stock symbol	AMD
Number of Employees	2006: 16,500 2003: 14,353 1970: 53
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California
Mergers, Acquisitions, Spinoffs, Sales	1987: acquired Monolithic Memories, Inc. (programmable logic) 1993: established joint venture for production of flash memories with Fujitsu 1996: acquired NexGen (microprocessors) 1999: sold Vantis (programmable logic) to Lattice Semiconductor Corporation for $500 million in cash 2002: acquired Alchemy Semiconductor (low-power embedded processors) 2003: formed FASL, LLC (Spansion flash memory) with Fujitsu 2003: acquired x86 business (embedded processors) from National Semiconductor 2006: acquired ATI (video cards)
Important trade agreements	1976: signed patent cross-license agreement with Intel. 1982: signed technology exchange agreement with Intel
Trademarks	http://www.amd.com/us-en/Trademarkinformation/0,,1435_1442,00.html
Lawsuits	1987 - 1994: Arbitration action against Intel. AMD was awarded rights to manufacture and sell AMD 80386 microprocessors in 1992. The California Supreme Court confirmed decision of the arbitration court in 1994. 1990 - 1994: Intel claimed copyright infringement in microcode of AMD 80C287 math coprocessor. Jury confirmed AMD's right to use Intel microcode in 80C287 math coprocessors. 1991 - 1995: AMD filed antitrust lawsuit against Intel. The case was settled in 1995. 1991: Intel claimed copyright infringement in microcode of AMD 80386 processor. 1993: Intel claimed copyright infringement in microcode of AMD 80486 processor. 1997: Intel filed trademark infringement of the trademark MMX against AMD and Cyrix. The case was settled in 1997. 2001: AMD filed a complaint with the European Commission against Intel and claimed abuse of company's dominant position in the market and violation of anti-monopoly rules. 2005: AMD filed antitrust lawsuit against Intel.
First product	Am2501 logic counter (1970)
CPU, FPU and MCU families	Note: the list of families is incomplete          9511 1975: 2901 (Bit Slice processor) 1988: 29100 (Bit Slice Processor) 1988: 29000 199?: 29030 199?: 29040 1996: K5 1997: K6 1998: K6-2 1999: K6-III 1999: Athlon 2000: Duron 2000: Mobile Duron 2001: Athlon XP 2001: Athlon MP 2001: Mobile Athlon 4 2002: Athlon XP-M 2004: Sempron          Geode NX 2003: AMD Athlon 64 2003: Opteron 2003: Athlon 64 FX 2003?: Sempron 64 2003?: Mobile K8 Athlon XP-M 2003: Mobile Athlon 64 2004: Mobile Sempron 2005: Turion 64 mobile technology 2005: Athlon 64 X2 2005: Dual-Core Opteron 2005: Turion 64 Mobile technology 2005?: Athlon 64 X2 for Notebooks 2006: Second Generation Opteron 2006: Turion 64 X2 Mobile technology 2007: Third Generation Opteron 2008?: Sempron X2 2008: Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core 2009: Sempron for Ultrathin Notebooks 2008: Phenom X3 2008: Phenom X4 2009: Athlon Neo for Ultrathin Notebooks 2009: Phenom II X4 Second source processors 8080 8085 AMD Z8000 8088 80186 80188 80286 80287 80386 80486 Geode GX2 Geode SC1200 Geode SC2200 Embedded processors and systems on a chip ElanSC400 Geode LX