advanced micro devices, inc. (amd) is a large american company from sunnyvale, california that makes computer hardware components. it makes many different computer parts, but it is most famous for its central processing units (cpus) and graphics processing units (gpus). another important product are their motherboard chipsets for their cpus. amd started as a company that made products for intel, another large hardware company, and competitor of amd. in 2006, amd bought ati technologies. with $4.3 billion of cash and 52 million amd stocks. in 2020, amd said that they are buying xilinx, a company that makes circuits that can be changed using computer code (fpga).