AMD 2011 Annual Report Download - page 8

For a discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking
statements, see “Part I, Item 1A—Risk Factors” and the “Financial Condition” section set forth in “Part II,
Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” or MD&A,
beginning on page 30 below and such other risks and uncertainties as set forth below in this report or detailed in
our other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports and filings. We assume no obligation to update
forward-looking statements.
General
We are a global semiconductor company with facilities around the world. Within the global semiconductor
industry, we offer primarily:
(i) x86 microprocessors, as standalone devices or as incorporated as an accelerated processing unit, for the
commercial and consumer markets, embedded microprocessors for commercial, commercial client and
consumer markets and chipsets for desktop and mobile devices, including mobile personal computers,
or PCs, and tablets, professional workstations and servers; and
(ii) graphics, video and multimedia products for desktop and mobile devices, including mobile PCs and
tablets, home media PCs and professional workstations, servers and technology for game consoles.
For financial information about geographic areas and for segment information with respect to revenues and
operating results, refer to the information set forth in Note 13 of our consolidated financial statements, beginning
on page 86 below.
Additional Information
We were incorporated under the laws of Delaware on May 1, 1969 and became a publicly held company in
1972. Since 1979 our common stock has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
“AMD.” Our mailing address and executive offices are located at One AMD Place, Sunnyvale, California 94088,
and our telephone number is [phone]. References in this report to “AMD,” “we,” “us,” “management,”
“our,” or the “Company” mean Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and our consolidated subsidiaries.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom, AMD
Sempron, AMD Turion, FirePro, FireStream, CrossFire, Radeon, and combinations thereof are trademarks of
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and DirectX are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the
HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Other names are for informational purposes only and are used to
identify companies and products and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Website Access to Company Reports and Corporate Governance Documents
We post on the Investor Relations pages of our Web site, www.amd.com, a link to our filings with the SEC,
our Principles of Corporate Governance, our Code of Ethics for our Executive Officers and all other senior
finance executives, our “Worldwide Standards of Business Conduct,” which applies to our Board of Directors
and all of our employees, and the charters of our Audit and Finance, Compensation and Nominating and
Corporate Governance committees of our Board of Directors. Our filings with the SEC are posted as soon as
reasonably practical after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. You can also obtain copies
of these documents by writing to us at: Corporate Secretary, AMD, 7171 Southwest Parkway, M/S 100, Austin,
Texas 78735, or emailing us at: [email protected]. All of these documents and filings are available
free of charge.
If we make substantive amendments to our Code of Ethics, or grant any waiver, including any implicit
waiver, to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or
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