The company was founded on May 1, 1969
AMD turned 55 yesterday. It was founded on May 1, 1969 by businessman Jerry Sanders and seven of his colleagues who previously worked at Fairchild Semiconductor.
For quite a long time, AMD was not a company that literally everyone who is even slightly interested in computers knows about. In particular, those same iconic processors Athlon appeared only three decades after the founding — in 1999 They quickly gained popularity, often being cheaper than Intel CPUs and more productive. In some cases, AMD was faster than its competitor in introducing new technologies. In general, the company began producing CPUs in the 70s, and the first-born — model Am9080 — was a clone of Intel 8080.
In 2006, AMD acquired ATI Technologies and began producing video cards, and a few years later abandoned the ATI brand.
Lisa Su, who now heads the company and whose personality is often associated with AMD’s current success, took the helm in 2014. In 2017, AMD released Ryzen processors, which greatly influenced the market.
For its anniversary, AMD, using AI, restored some archival photos of its history and a video that was created for the 40th anniversary.