AMD 2010 Annual Report Download - page 10

beginning on page 39 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, for the commercial and consumer markets, embedded microprocessors for
commercial, commercial client and consumer markets and chipsets for desktop and notebook PCs,
professional workstations and servers; and
(ii) graphics, video and multimedia products for desktop and notebook computers, including home media
PCs, professional workstations and 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 111 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, ATI, the ATI logo, AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom, AMD
Sempron, AMD Turion, FirePro, FireStream, FireMV, CrossFire, Radeon, and combinations thereof are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, 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
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. 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
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