AMD

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AMD

Basic information
Founded	1969-05-01
Legal Structure	Public
Industry	Semiconductors, Computer hardware
Also known as
Official website	https://www.amd.com/

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.' or AMD is an American technology company that designs and sells computer components such as central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and related products for both commercial and enterprise use. It was founded on May 01, 1969, by Jerry Sanders and a group of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor.^{[citation needed (2 Dec 2025)]}

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the AMD category.

Abandonment of the sTRX4 platform (2019)

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On November 25, 2019, AMD released the sTRX4 socket alongside their Threadripper 3000 series of HEDT (high-end desktop) processors with the promise of long term support for the platform. This along with the strong reputation of socket AM4 led many people to invest into the platform. Despite the promises made, AMD ultimately fell flat and only supported a total of one generation of CPUs before freezing the regular Ryzen Threadripper lineup till the release of Threadripper 7000 on socket sTR5.

"Bulldozer" CPU false advertisement lawsuit (2015-2019)

AMD settled the lawsuit with a $12.1 million payout, which is estimated to have compensated up to $35 per applicant that could give a proof of purchase. The complaint was about the Bulldozer processors being marketed as the "first native 8-core desktop processor," while this was allegedly false advertising. The CPU has 4 modules with each 2 sub-processors that shared resources instead of 8 independent cores that could perform separately and simultaneously. And it was demonstrated that the alleged customer damages caused by the allegedly misleading claims can be measured on a class-wide basis.

Products

CPUs:

• Epyc (server lineup)
• Ryzen (desktop lineup)
• Ryzen Threadripper (HEDT lineup)

GPUs:

• Radeon (consumer lineup)
• Radeon Pro (workstation lineup)
• Radeon Instinct (ML targeted workstation lineup)

See also

Intel

Nvidia

Qualcomm