Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, supplies graphics processors under the Radeon brand.
AMD introduced the Radeon brand after acquiring ATI Technologies in 2006. Radeon products compete in consumer and professional graphics, while AMD’s Ryzen processors serve personal computers and its EPYC processors target servers. The company also designs semi-custom chips used in major game consoles.
AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and seven co-founders. It began as a supplier of logic chips and later became a major designer of microprocessors. Unlike a traditional integrated manufacturer, AMD relies on outside foundries for fabrication of its leading-edge chips, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
AMD’s market value is tied to several semiconductor markets rather than to Radeon alone. Investors evaluate its central-processing units, graphics processors, data-center products, embedded chips, and artificial-intelligence accelerators. A common mistake is to confuse AMD, the chip designer, with the foundries that physically manufacture many of its products.