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3 unusual facts about Advanced Micro Devices


Bruce Claflin

Bruce Claflin is the current Executive Chairman of the multinational semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices.

Ingmar Zahorsky

Zahorsky's commercial media work for clients such as Yahoo!, AMD and Cisco had a wide audience on television and the web.

The Green Grid

An initial announcement in April 2006 included members Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.


David E. Orton

After the announced merger of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and COO Dirk Meyer.

Qimonda

Qimonda has other strategic alliances with China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Co., Ltd., SMIC, Winbond Electronics Corporation, IBM, Altis, AMD (for ATI graphics products), Toppan Photomasks, Spansion, and Sandisk.

Troublemaker Studios

The company's visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions.

Vector Pascal

AMD Opteron processor, the Opteron compiler supports multi-core parallelism


see also

Phil Hester

Phillip Doyce Hester (born 1955), former chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices