Founded May 1 in Sunnyvale, CA by Jerry Sanders and seven Fairchild colleagues with $100K seed; chartered as a second-source maker of logic chips designed by Fairchild and others to undercut prices.

IPO on the NYSE at $15.50/share, raising the capital that funded a Sunnyvale wafer fab and AMD's expansion into bipolar logic and DRAM second-sourcing.

Signed second-source agreement with Intel for the 8080 microprocessor; the deal established the second-source business model that funded AMD through the 1980s.

Released the Am386, a clean-room reverse-engineered Intel 386 clone, after a court battle; the chip undercut Intel pricing by ~50% and forced the era's first true PC CPU price war.

Released Am386DX-40, the highest-clocked 386-class chip; combined with aggressive pricing, AMD captured ~20% of the PC CPU market by 1993.

Acquired NexGen for $857M, gaining the Nx686 core that would become the AMD K6; pivotal step toward an independent x86 micro-architecture rather than reverse-engineered Intel clones.

Launched K6 processor at 166-233MHz, AMD's first competitive x86 against Pentium MMX; gross margins improved sharply and AMD reached ~10% PC CPU share.

Launched Athlon (K7), AMD's first independent x86 microarchitecture; first to ship a 1GHz x86 processor (March 2000), beating Intel by months and ending Intel's clock-speed dominance.

Athlon Thunderbird hit 1GHz March 6, beating Intel Pentium III to the milestone by days; capped a multi-year campaign of clock-rate leadership against Intel.

Launched Opteron (K8), the first 64-bit x86 server CPU with on-die memory controller and HyperTransport; forced Intel to abandon Itanium-only 64-bit strategy and adopt AMD64.

Acquired ATI Technologies for $5.4B (cash + stock); the deal aimed to fuse CPU + GPU into Fusion APUs but loaded AMD with debt and triggered a decade of underperformance.

Spun off manufacturing arm as GlobalFoundries with a $5.7B investment from Mubadala (Abu Dhabi); freed AMD to operate fabless and avoid the cost of node transitions.

Launched first Fusion APU (Llano), integrating CPU + Radeon GPU on a single die five years after the ATI deal; enabled console wins (PS4/Xbox One) but desktop performance disappointed.

Lisa Su appointed CEO October 8, replacing Rory Read; her engineering-first, server-and-AI roadmap (Zen, EPYC, Instinct) would power AMD's 100x stock recovery over the next decade.

Launched Zen 1 (Ryzen 1000 series) March 2 on GlobalFoundries 14nm; jumped Bulldozer's IPC by 52% in one generation and ended Intel's decade-long performance lead.

Launched EPYC server CPUs (codename Naples), AMD's return to data-center after a decade absence; 32 Zen cores and 128 PCIe lanes per socket reset price-performance norms.

Announced $35B all-stock acquisition of Xilinx, the FPGA leader; the deal closed February 2022 and added programmable logic, networking and adaptive SoCs to AMD's portfolio.

Instinct MI200 series launched, first multi-die GPU and the engine of Frontier exascale supercomputer; Frontier became the world's first exascale system in May 2022.

Closed $49B Xilinx acquisition (final value after stock appreciation); CEO Lisa Su gained adaptive SoC, FPGA and SmartNIC IP that powered the MI300 series and AI networking strategy.

MI250X data-center accelerators caught in the October 7 BIS rules restricting AI chip exports to China; AMD MI200-class shipments to Chinese clouds halted alongside NVIDIA.

MI250X-equivalent China chips caught by tightened October 17 export rules covering performance density and HBM; AMD began designing MI308 China-tailored chip alongside NVIDIA.

MI300X launched December 6 with 153B transistors and 192GB HBM3, backed by Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI as buyers; MI300X became the first credible alternative to NVIDIA H100 for inference workloads.

MI300A APU launched with integrated CDNA3 GPU and Zen 4 CPU dies, anchoring El Capitan exascale system at Lawrence Livermore; first APU-based Top500 leader and a showcase of chiplet packaging.

MI325X launched October 10 with 256GB HBM3e and 6 TB/s bandwidth on CDNA3, claiming up to 1.3x H200 performance on Llama 3.1 inference; first MI300X refresh.

Disclosed MI355X CDNA4 specs at Advancing AI 2024, targeting 2.3 PFLOPS FP16 and 4.6 PFLOPS FP8 in H2 2025; first AMD GPU on TSMC 3nm.

Reported $5B+ FY2024 data center GPU revenue, vaulting Instinct into a credible second AI training option; Microsoft, Meta and Oracle anchored MI300X deployments.

Took $800M charge on MI308 China-tailored chip after April BIS rule blocked the export design; mirrored NVIDIA H20 inventory write-down on a smaller scale.

Announced full MI350 series at Advancing AI: MI350X air-cooled and MI355X liquid-cooled on 3nm CDNA4; Lisa Su disclosed forward AI revenue forecast of $20B+ for FY2025.

MI308 China shipments resumed alongside NVIDIA H20 after US administration eased AI chip export controls; AMD recovered ~50% of the Q1 charge by year-end.

MI350 series began shipping to partners; MI355X follow-on slated for H2 2025 in liquid-cooled racks for Microsoft and Meta deployments.