Celebrating 55 Years of AMD Innovation

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2024-05-02 05:00:04

Today AMD celebrates its 55 th anniversary. AMD has a rich history of innovation, yet the incredible AI inflection point we find ourselves in today marks a new era of opportunity and impact for our company. We made the call over a decade ago to leverage our strength and heritage in high-performance computing and invest for the future. Those bets have paid off as all our markets now demand the utmost in compute efficiency (performance per Watt of energy expended), and AI enablement. With that in mind, as we mark this milestone, I’d like to reflect on the last five years of innovation and impact at AMD and look forward to what we can expect in the next five.

Since our 50 th anniversary in 2019, AMD and the semiconductor industry have grown tremendously. Global sales of semiconductors grew from $412.3B in 2019 i , to $574.1B in 2022, and are estimated to grow to $1T by 2030 ii . AI is the most exciting and significant technology disruption in a lifetime, and AMD is positioned to service our customers’ insatiable demand for more computing capacity with our leadership products and roadmap.

Timed with this incredible market growth, we’ve significantly expanded our engineering talent pool with the best and brightest minds to deliver some of the world’s most advanced chips, software, and enterprise AI solutions. Our global team has more than doubled in the past five years as we’ve welcomed more than 15,000 new employees. Xilinx was the largest semiconductor acquisition when completed in 2022 adding incredible talent, leadership IP, and market expansion to adaptive compute markets with deep customer relationships. The Pensando acquisition also brought a highly programmable Network chip and key skills, and most recently Mipsology and Nod.ai have bolstered our AI software capabilities.