AMD 2007 Annual Report Download - page 7

Table of Contents
General
We are a global semiconductor company with facilities around the world. Within the global semiconductor industry, we offer primarily:
• x86 microprocessors, for the commercial and consumer markets, embedded microprocessors for commercial, commercial client and consumer
markets and chipsets for desktop and notebook personal computers, or PCs, professional workstations and servers;
• graphics, video and multimedia products for desktop and notebook computers, including home media PCs, professional workstations and servers; and
• products for consumer electronic devices such as mobile phone and digital televisions 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 11 of our consolidated financial statements, beginning on page 128 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” means
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and our consolidated subsidiaries.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Athlon, Opteron, Sempron, Turion, LIVE!, Geode, PowerNow!, CoolCore, Virtualization and combinations thereof; ATI
and the ATI logo and Avivo, TV Wonder, Fire, Mobility, Theater, Imageon, Radeon, Xilleon, Crossfire and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft, Windows and Windows Vista are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or
other jurisdictions. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. HyperTransport is a licensed
trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. 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 Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and other senior finance executives, our “Worldwide Standards of
Business Conduct,” which applies to our directors and all our employees, and the charters of our Audit, Compensation, Finance 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, 5204 E. Ben White Blvd., M/S 562, Austin,
Texas 78741, or emailing us at:[email protected]. All these documents and filings are available free of charge. Please note that information
contained on our Web site is not incorporated by reference in, or considered to be a part of, this report.
Our Industry
Semiconductors are components used in a variety of electronic products and systems. An integrated circuit, or IC, is a semiconductor device that consists
of many interconnected transistors on a single chip. Since the invention of the transistor in 1948, improvements in IC process and design technologies have led to
the development of
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K, February 26, 2008