Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD adventure began with dozens of employees focused on cutting-edge semiconductor products. Since these modest beginnings, AMD has become a global company setting the standard of modern computing through major technological achievements and many important industrial premieres along the way. Today, AMD offers the largest portfolio of cutting-edge adaptive and high-performance processor technologies, combining processors, GPUs, FPGAs, adaptive SoCs and in-depth software expertise to enable cutting-edge computing platforms for cloud, peripheral, and end devices.