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