Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company, provides processing solutions for the computing, graphics, and consumer electronics markets in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. It offers microprocessor products, including servers and workstation microprocessors, notebook microprocessors, and desktop microprocessors; embedded processor products; chipset products, including IGP and discrete chipsets; and graphics products, such as 3D graphics, and video and multimedia products for use in desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), including home media PCs, professional workstations, and servers, as well as technology for game consoles. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and third-party distributors through direct sales force and independent sales representatives. It has a strategic relationship with StudioGPU. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
AMD's Vision, Mission, Values and Beliefs
Vision
A world where the amazing power of AMD technology improves the quality of people's lives.
AMD set a goal to enable affordable, accessible Internet connectivity and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world's population by the year 2015. Learn more about AMD’s 50x15 Initiative.
Mission
Lead through innovative, customer-centric solutions that empower businesses, enhance the digital lifestyle, and accelerate global digital inclusion.
Values & Beliefs
AMD's culture is characterized by an indomitable will to succeed and prosper in one of the world's most challenging industries. At the heart of our unique and strong culture is the belief that people are the ultimate source of our competitive advantage. By living these core values, each one of us helps to deliver on our promises to customers, maximize shareholder value and ensure our enduring success.
Respect for People
We respect people, honor diversity and treat each other fairly. These are the cornerstones of our culture and key to our ability to work successfully as a global team. Learn about what it’s like to work at AMD.
Integrity
We operate with the highest standards of honesty and responsibility—as individuals and as a corporation—to be a role model worldwide through our business practices, community involvement and environmental stewardship. View our corporate responsibility mission and achievements.
Our Customers' Success
We ensure our customers' ongoing success by forging deep relationships founded on our commitment to meet their diverse technology needs and a shared passion for excellence. Read about how AMD drives customer success.
Customer-Centric Innovation
We lead through innovation—championing creative ideas and solutions that enable our customers to truly differentiate their solutions in the marketplace.
Initiative and Accountability
We deliver on our promises to our customers, stakeholders and to each other by taking risks, seeking proactive solutions and assuming ownership of the results.
At AMD, we take a measured approach to evaluate and continually improve global environmental efficiency, from how we run corporate facilities to how we develop products that deliver superior performance-per-watt. Learn more about AMD’s Green initiative at: www.amd.com/climate.
Fair and Open Competition
We believe that fair and open competition places the freedom of choice in the hands of customers, allowing the widest population to have access to the best possible technology.
For more information on AMD’s commitment to fair and open competition, visit http://www.amd.com/breakfree.
AMD Corporate Responsibility
Doing what’s right for our industry, communities, and customers
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 At AMD, corporate responsibility guides our company's culture and drives everything we do. Our success in business is built on a core value of respect for people. From our employees around the world, to our customers and partners, to the families who live in the communities where we operate - people come first and foremost.
We strive to serve the needs of customers through innovative technologies that break new ground, such as accelerated computing. Accelerated computing is a framework that improves how hardware and software interact to support emerging application areas and evolving workloads while providing energy efficiency, great performance, and competitively priced computer systems. We believe that accelerated computing embodies a rapidly approaching paradigm shift that will create many opportunities to customize computer systems by providing targeted, precise solutions for different kinds of workloads, whether at work, home, or play. We call this Fusion.
We continue to be dedicated to our mission of enabling affordable, accessible Internet connectivity and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world's population by the year 2015. Through our 50x15 Initiative, AMD and a growing network of partners are committed to bringing about global connectivity and empowering people to improve their lives. We aim to to foster long-term economic progress within high-growth markets in ways that can benefit developing areas and businesses. Learn more.
Learn more about our company's philosophy and strategy from AMD President and CEO Dirk Meyer.
Read Dirk's Statement.
Learn how AMD's role as a responsible corporate citizen results in strong economic, environmental, and social performance.
View AMD's 2007 Performance Data.
Learn about our recent corporate awards and recognition. View Awards
View AMD’s archived Corporate Responsibility Reports, Global Climate Protection Plans and other publications here.
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- AMD has deep roots in the local communities where we operate around the world.
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- The mission of the AMD Foundation is to connect and empower individuals with knowledge, thereby opening doors to opportunity.
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- AMD's dedication to environmental stewardship influences our products, operations, and employees.
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- AMD's Board of Directors is committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.
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- The greatest assets of our company are the people who work here.
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- We measure our performance using a variety of economic, social and environmental, health, and safety indicators.
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Executive Biographies
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Dirk Meyer
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dirk Meyer is the president and chief executive officer of AMD and also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to being named CEO in 2008, Meyer served as president and chief operating officer of AMD, a role in which he shared leadership and management of AMD with Executive Chairman of the Board Hector Ruiz. More...
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Thomas M. McCoy
Executive Vice President, Legal, Corporate and Public Affairs
Tom is Executive Vice President, Legal, Corporate and Public Affairs. His current leadership responsibilities include Legal, International Policy, Government and Community Affairs, and Corporate Secretary duties. More...
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Blog from AMD Chief Marketing Officer
Nigel Dessau, AMD CMO, blogs about best practices in marketing and what's going on at AMD.
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Robert J. Rivet
Executive Vice President and Chief Operations and Administrative Officer
Robert J. Rivet is executive vice president and chief operations and administrative officer of AMD. He is also acting chief financial officer until AMD names a replacement. More...
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Richard Bergman
Senior Vice President
Rick Bergman is senior vice president, AMD, with responsibility for delivering all of AMD’s platforms and products and aligning the graphics and microprocessor product development groups into a single unified organization. More...
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Nigel Dessau
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Nigel Dessau is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of AMD, and is responsible for the company’s global marketing, image and campaign strategies. More...
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Emilio Ghilardi
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer
Emilio Ghilardi is senior vice president and chief sales officer for AMD, responsible for driving worldwide revenue and margins through the company’s regional sales and marketing organizations. More...
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Ahmed Mahmoud
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Ahmed Mahmoud is the Chief Information Officer of AMD, and is responsible for managing the company’s global technology infrastructure to best meet internal needs and serve AMD’s customers. More...
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Allen Sockwell
Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Talent Officer
Allen Sockwell is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Talent Officer for AMD. More...
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Ben Bar-Haim
General Manager, AMD Canada
Corporate Vice President, Software Engineering, Graphics Products Group
Ben Bar-Haim is General Manager of AMD Canada and Corporate Vice President, Software Engineering, Graphics Products Group (GPG). More...
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