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AMD

Semiconductors · United States

AMD designs processors, graphics chips, FPGAs and AI accelerators for data centers, PCs, game consoles and embedded devices, and has outside foundries manufacture them.

What makes it different

It designs chips but owns no chip factories.

$974MCapital expenditureFY2025

Outside foundries such as TSMC make its wafers, so plant spending stays small.

How big it is

How big is AMD?

$34.6BNet revenueFY2025
$16.6BData Center revenueFY2025
31,000EmployeesFY2025
How it makes money FY2025

Data center first, then PCs.

  • Data Center48%$16.6B
  • Client31%$10.6B
  • Gaming11%$3.9B
  • Embedded10%$3.5B
How the business works

Design chips. Sell the full AI stack.

  1. 1CPUs, GPUs, adaptive chips
  2. 2Clouds, PCs, consoles
  3. 3Systems and software

AMD is moving from selling single chips to selling whole racks, networking and software around them.

Who owns it
  • The Vanguard Group8.8%
  • BlackRock, Inc.7.7%

CEO: Lisa T. Su

Who it competes with
Key moments
  1. 1969AMD is incorporated in Delaware
  2. 1972AMD becomes a public company
  3. 2006AMD completes the acquisition of ATI
  4. 2009Manufacturing spun into GLOBALFOUNDRIES
  5. 2014Lisa Su becomes CEO
Sources

Every number on this page comes from AMD's own reports.

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What AMD tracks17 metrics
Employees
R&D ratio
OpenAI GPU deployment agreement
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from5 regions
United States
China (including Hong Kong)
Taiwan
The full timeline19 moments
2024
2025
2026
AMD vs Intelside by side
Revenue
Profit
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