Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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AMD says it will sell $500M in senior notes due 2017, and use funds to buy notes due in 2012 -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 4 minutes ago
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Monday it will sell $500 million in senior notes in a private offering.
AMD says it will sell $500M in senior notes due 2017, and use funds to buy notes due in 2012
Chicago Tribune | 40 minutes ago
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Monday it will sell $500 million in senior notes in a private offering.
S&P upgrades AMD to 'B-' after Intel settlement - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 3 hours 15 minutes ago
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Moody's hikes AMD rating to 'B2'; outlook positive - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 7 days 8 hours 5 minutes ago
Moody's hikes AMD rating to 'B2'; outlook positive
AMD shares rise on moves to ease debt burden - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 7 hours 55 minutes ago
Meanwhile, a Barclays analyst said AMD's next move could likely be to fully spin off GlobalFoundries into an entirely separately entity, paving the way for "a financially sounder AMD Product Co."
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MarketWatch | 4 days 7 hours 18 minutes ago
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Ruiz stepping down as GlobalFoundries' chairman - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 21 days 5 hours 12 minutes ago
The bull is still very much in charge, but it pays to be cautious, as bargains are getting harder to find, says Barron's Lauren Rublin.
Chips lead tech rally, as Intel, AMD rise - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 7 hours 48 minutes ago
"Most meaningful about the third quarter of 2009 is that, since PC processor shipments overall just slightly exceeded shipments in the third quarter of 2008 -- which was itself a record quarter at the time -- we know that the processor market is recovering," IDC analyst Shane Rau said in a statement.
Advanced Micro Devices sells $500M in senior notes
Washington Post, The | 5 minutes ago
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
EU ombudsman criticizes Intel antitrust probe - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 3 hours 53 minutes ago
The ombudsman's criticism centered on a July 2008 complaint filed by Intel that the E.U. Commission "failed to "failed to take minutes of a meeting with a senior Dell executive held on 23 August 2006, even though the meeting directly concerned the subject-matter of the Commission's anti-trust investigation of Intel," the commission said in a statement.
AMD and Intel avoid long costly trial MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago
This case already, according to Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke, could have been "one of the largest civil litigation trials in terms of scale and number of depositions and documents in U.S. legal history with over 200 million pages of document exchanges, 2200 hours of deposition and over 10,000 pages of expert reports."
What Intel-AMD peace pact means for chip giants - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 1 hour 21 minutes ago
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Company Overview
| Company: | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Microprocessors, Microcontrollers & DSPs |
| Website: | http://www.amd.com |
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) made some advances in its battle against Intel but hasn't capitalized on those gains. AMD ranks #2 in PC and server microprocessors, far behind its archrival. Though Intel commands about three-quarters of the world processor market, AMD at times eroded that market share thanks to the popularity of its Athlon and Opteron processor families. The company also makes embedded processors and other chips for communications and networking applications. Hewlett-Packard is AMD's biggest customer, and Chinese OEMs account for more than 40% of the company's sales. In early 2009 AMD split its operations, spinning off a manufacturing venture.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 5,808 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | -3.4 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | -3,098 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 14,700 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | -10.5 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |

