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Jerry Sanders and Colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor Found AMD

5/1/1969
AMD logo above photograph of their headquarters building.

AMD logo above photograph of their headquarters building.

On May 1, 1969 Jerry Sanders and seven others from Fairchild Semiconductor founded Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It began operations as a producer of logic chips.

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