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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
     
         (AMD) A US manufacturer of {integrated circuits},
        founded in 1969.  AMD was the fifth-largest IC manufacturer in
        1995.  AMD focuses on the personal and networked computation
        and communications market.  They produce {microprocessors},
        {embedded processors} and related peripherals, memories,
        {programmable logic devices}, circuits for telecommunications
        and networking applications.
     
        In 1995, AMD had 12000 employees in the USA and elsewhere and
        manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; Aizu-Wakamatsu,
        Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; and Singapore.
     
        AMD made the {AMD 2900} series of {bit-slice} {TTL} components
        and clones of the {Intel 80386} and {Intel 486}
        {microprocessors}.
     
        {AMD Home (http://www.amd.com/)}.
     
        Address: Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
     
        (1995-02-27)