AMD at 50: A $30bn underdog story
AMD is finally turning the big 5-0, and what a rollercoaster of a half century it's been for the Silicon Valley startup. You may not know it from the company before you today, but it’s not been an easy journey for ol’ AMD. Rather its been a perilous venture complete with highs, lows, and various lawsuits that have left this underdog teetering on the edge of collapse more than once in its history.
AMD’s staff now numbers in the tens of thousands spread across the world in over 23 countries. It holds offices, R&D labs, and even a couple manufacturing facilities across Europe; in the US, including its headquarters in Austin, Texas and Santa Clara, California; South America; across Asia; and all the way Down Under. But it all started in Silicon Valley, just a short hop away from the present day headquarters of both Intel and Nvidia.
From the very beginning AMD has been a company willing to dive headfirst into the 'next big thing', risking it all for a chance at the big bucks. Nowadays that attitude has it taking on Intel with AMD Ryzen, and soon it could - for the first time in a very long time - rule the market with its AMD Ryzen 3000 processors. But while AMD may come with a market cap of some $30bn nowadays, it is still, as it always has been, an underdog.
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