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demand for AMD’s products;
+Added: AMD’s strategy and expected benefits;
the growth, change and competitive landscape of the markets in which AMD participates;
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revenue allocated to remaining performance obligations that are unsatisfied which will be recognized in the next 12 months;
−Removed: and a small number of customers will continue to account for a substantial part of AMD’s revenue in the future.
+Added: a small number of customers will continue to account for a substantial part of AMD’s revenue in the future;
+Added: the expected implications from the development of the legal and regulatory environment relating to emerging technologies such as AI;
+Added: AMD’s expectation that it will not pay dividends in the near future;
+Added: AMD’s ability to achieve its corporate responsibility initiatives;
+Added: expected future AI technology trends and developments.
For a discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, see “Part I, Item 1A-Risk Factors” and the “Financial Condition” section set forth in “Part II, Item 7-Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” or MD&A, 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.
+Added: Additionally, we make certain voluntary disclosures in this report and on our website, which are informed by various standards and frameworks (including standards for the measurement of underlying data), and the interests of various stakeholders.
+Added: As such, these voluntary disclosures may not necessarily be “material” under the federal securities laws for SEC reporting purposes.
+Added: Furthermore, much of this information is subject to methodological considerations or information, including from third-parties, that is still evolving and subject to change, and which AMD does not independently verify.
+Added: For example, our disclosures based on any standards may change due to revisions in framework requirements, availability of information, changes in our business or applicable government policies, or other factors, some of which may be beyond our control.
References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “AMD,” “we,” “us,” “management,” “our” or the “Company” mean Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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We are a global semiconductor company primarily offering:
−Removed: • server microprocessors (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), data processing units (DPUs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and Adaptive System-on-Chip (SoC) products for data centers;
−Removed: • CPUs, accelerated processing units (APUs) that integrate CPUs and GPUs, and chipsets for desktop and notebook personal computers;
+Added: • server microprocessors (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), accelerated processing units (APUs), data processing units (DPUs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs), Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerators and Adaptive System-on-Chip (SoC) products for data centers;
+Added: • CPUs, APUs and chipsets for desktop, notebook, and handheld personal computers;
• discrete GPUs, and semi-custom SoC products and development services;
−Removed: • embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoC products.
+Added: • embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, System on Modules (SOMs), and Adaptive SoC products.
From time to time, we may also sell or license portions of our intellectual property (IP) portfolio.
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References in this report to 2023, 2022 and 2021 refer to the fiscal year unless explicitly stated otherwise.
−Removed: AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD CDNA, AMD Instinct, AMD RDNA, Alveo, Artix, Athlon, CoolRunner, EPYC, FidelityFX, FirePro, FreeSync, Geode, Infinity Fabric, Kinex, Pensando, Radeon, Radeon Instinct, ROCm, Ryzen, Spartan, Threadripper, UltraScale, UltraScale+, V-Cache, Versal, Virtex, Vitis, Vivado, Xilinx, Zynq and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+Added: AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD CDNA, AMD Instinct, RDNA, Alveo, Artix, Athlon, CoolRunner, EPYC, FidelityFX, FirePro, FreeSync, Geode, Infinity Fabric, Kinex, Kria, Pensando, Radeon, ROCm, Ryzen, Spartan, Threadripper, UltraScale, UltraScale+, V-Cache, Versal, Virtex, Vitis, Vivado, Xilinx, XDNA, Zynq and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Microsoft, Windows, DirectX and Xbox One are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG Corporation.
−Removed: Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries.
+Added: Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and/or other countries.
PlayStation is a registered trademark or trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
−Removed: Arm is a registered trademark of ARM Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the United States and/or elsewhere.
+Added: Arm is a registered trademark of ARM Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the United States and/or other countries.
Vulkan and the Vulkan logo are registered trademarks of Khronos Group Inc.
−Removed: Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
+Added: Steam Deck and the Steam Deck logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Other names are for informational purposes only and are used to identify companies and products and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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You can also obtain copies of these documents by writing to us at:
−Removed: Corporate Secretary, AMD, 7171 Southwest Parkway, M/S B100.T, Austin, Texas 78735, or emailing us at:
+Added: Corporate Secretary, AMD, 2485 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, California 95054, or emailing us at:
Corporate.Secretary@amd.com.
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Since the invention of the transistor in 1948, improvements in IC process and design technologies have led to the development of smaller, more complex and more reliable ICs at a lower cost-per-function.
−Removed: AMD is focused on high-performance and adaptive computing technology, software and product leadership.
−Removed: Our strategy is to create and deliver the world’s leading high-performance and adaptive computing products across a diverse set of markets including the data center, embedded, client and gaming.
+Added: AMD drives innovation through high-performance and adaptive computing technology, software and product leadership.
+Added: Our strategy is to create and deliver the world’s leading high-performance and adaptive computing products across a diverse set of customer markets including data center, client, gaming and embedded.
Our strategy is focused on five strategic pillars:
−Removed: compute technology leadership, expanding data center leadership, enabling pervasive artificial intelligence (AI), providing software platforms and developer enablement, and designing custom silicon and solutions.
−Removed: We invest in high-performance CPUs for cloud infrastructure, enterprise, edge, supercomputing, and PCs.
−Removed: We invest in high-performance GPUs and software for markets such as gaming, compute, AI, and virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
−Removed: With the acquisition of Xilinx, Inc.
−Removed: (XIlinx) in February 2022, our product portfolio now includes FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs used in the data center and embedded markets.
−Removed: Also, with the acquisition of Pensando Systems, Inc.
−Removed: in May 2022, we offer high-performance DPUs and next generation data center solutions.
−Removed: We leverage our high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA and DPU product portfolios to deliver solutions that are differentiated at the chip level, such as our semi-custom SoCs, Adaptive SoCs, and APUs, and at the systems level, such as PCs, embedded platforms and servers.
−Removed: To expand our data center presence, we now offer the industry’s strongest portfolio of data center computing solutions based on our CPUs, high-performance GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoCs.
−Removed: We have a broad technology roadmap and products targeting AI training and inference spanning cloud, edge and intelligent endpoints.
+Added: extend leadership in foundational technology and IP, provide competitive software, tools and open-source enablement, re-use core technology across platforms to achieve economies of scale, build effective ecosystems with disciplined partnerships, and drive customer-centric go-to-market that leverages all of AMD’s capabilities.
+Added: With our high-performance product portfolios, we deliver solutions that are differentiated at the chip level, such as our semi-custom SoCs, Adaptive SoCs, and APUs, and at the platform level, such as in our customers’ client computing devices, embedded platforms and servers.
+Added: We offer a deep portfolio of data center computing solutions including CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, SmartNICs, FPGAs, AI accelerators and Adaptive SoCs to meet the vast computing performance requirements of today’s data centers, supercomputers, AI and Machine Learning (ML) data center environments and cloud environments.
+Added: AMD is a leader in adaptive and embedded computing, CPUs, APUs, FPGAs, SOMs and Adaptive SoCs for a variety of markets, including health care, automotive, industrial, storage and networking.
+Added: We drive innovation with our line-up of CPUs, APUs and chipsets for desktop, notebook, commercial and handheld PCs to bring performance, efficiency and modern security features to gamers, creators, consumers and enterprises.
+Added: Our GPUs, including discrete GPUs, semi-custom SoC products and development services, work together with software to power immersive gaming experiences for personal PCs, handheld PCs, the latest game consoles and cloud gaming services.
+Added: We believe that AI capabilities are central to products and solutions across our markets and we have a broad technology roadmap and products targeting AI training and inference spanning cloud, edge and intelligent endpoints.
+Added: We offer products that include capabilities to support AI deployment and we expect this part of our business to grow.
+Added: Our AI product portfolio caters to customers across strategic markets, from data center to enterprise to client.
We achieve this through our family of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoCs.
+Added: With the acquisitions of Mipsology SAS and Nod, Inc.
+Added: in 2023, we expanded our AI software capabilities to accelerate our AI growth strategy centered on an open software ecosystem to help lower the barriers of entry for customers through developer tools, libraries and models.
We develop world-class software platforms that are used to enable our high-performance products.
−Removed: Our software platforms include development tools, compilers, and drivers for our CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs.
+Added: Our software platforms include development tools, compilers, and drivers for our CPUs, APUs, GPUs and FPGAs.
We work closely with our customers to define and develop customized solutions to precisely match their requirements.
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Our four reportable segments are:
−Removed: • the Data Center segment, which primarily includes server CPUs and GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoC products for data centers;
−Removed: • the Client segment, which primarily includes CPUs, APUs, and chipsets for desktop and notebook personal computers;
+Added: • the Data Center segment, which primarily includes server CPUs, GPUs, APUs, DPUs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, AI accelerators and Adaptive SoC products for data centers;
+Added: • the Client segment, which primarily includes CPUs, APUs, and chipsets for desktop, notebook and handheld personal computers;
• the Gaming segment, which primarily includes discrete GPUs, semi-custom SoC products and development services;
−Removed: • the Embedded segment, which primarily includes embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs and Adaptive SoC products.
−Removed: From time to time, we may also sell or license portions of our IP portfolio.
+Added: • the Embedded segment, which primarily includes embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, SOMs, and Adaptive SoC products.
In addition to these reportable segments, we have an All Other category, which is not a reportable segment.
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Data Center Market
−Removed: The Data Center segment primarily includes server CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoC products.
−Removed: We leverage our technology to address the computational and visual data processing needs in the data center market.
+Added: The Data Center segment primarily includes server-class CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DPUs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, and Adaptive SoC products.
+Added: We leverage our technology to address the computational, visual data processing and AI workload acceleration needs in the data center market.
Modern data centers require high performance, energy efficient, scalable and adaptable compute engines to meet the demand driven by the growing amount of data that needs to be stored, accessed, analyzed and managed.
−Removed: Different combinations of CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoCs enable the optimization of performance and power for a diverse set of workloads.
+Added: Different combinations of CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, and Adaptive SoCs enable the optimization of performance and power for a diverse set of workloads.
Data Center Products
−Removed: Our CPUs for server platforms currently include the AMD EPYC™ Series processors – AMD EPYC 9004 Series, AMD EPYC 7003 Series and AMD EPYC 7002 Series.
−Removed: Our 4 th Gen AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors are built on the “Zen 4” core and are designed to deliver leadership performance and energy efficiency across multiple market segments and workloads.
−Removed: Our 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC processors include AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology for leadership performance in technical computing workloads.
−Removed: FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
−Removed: We offer a wide range of FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs and acceleration cards for the data center.
−Removed: Devices include the Virtex™ and Kintex™ FPGA products, as well as Zynq™, Zynq MPSoC, and Versal™ Adaptive SoC products.
−Removed: Our Alveo™ accelerator cards provide a platform for accelerating workloads in the data center, at the edge or the cloud.
−Removed: To make it accessible for developers, Alveo is available on most major OEM server platforms, as well as a growing presence across all major cloud providers who provide FPGA-as-a-Service (FaaS).
−Removed: Our P4 programmable AMD Pensando DPUs are designed to help offload data center infrastructure services from the CPU, and coupled with our comprehensive software stack, help enable cloud and enterprise customers to optimize performance for network, storage, and security services at cloud scale.
−Removed: Designed for minimal latency, jitter and power impact, our DPUs can help large Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers improve hosted virtualized and bare-metal workload performance.
−Removed: Our DPUs power the Aruba CX 10000 top-of-rack network switch, designed to enable enterprise customers to adopt the cloud model of distributed services.
+Added: Our CPUs for server platforms currently include the AMD EPYC™ Series processors – AMD EPYC 9004 Series, AMD EPYC 8004 Series, AMD EPYC 7003 Series and AMD EPYC 7002 Series.
+Added: Our 4 th Gen AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors are built on the “Zen 4” 5 nanometer (nm) process node and re designed to deliver leadership performance and energy efficiency across a range of market segments and workloads.
+Added: The AMD EPYC 97x4, cloud native-optimized data center CPUs, formerly codenamed “Bergamo,” are built with our “Zen 4c” architecture core and further extend the EPYC 9004 Series of processors to deliver the thread density and scale needed for cloud native computing.
+Added: Our AMD EPYC 8004 Series processors, formerly codenamed “Siena”, are also built on the “Zen 4c” core into a workload-optimized CPU.
+Added: Our 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC and 4th Gen AMD EPYC portfolios both include processors that feature AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology for leadership performance in technical computing workloads.
Data Center GPUs.
−Removed: Our AMD Instinct™ family of GPU accelerator products, including AMD Instinct MI200 Series which is based on 2 nd Gen AMD CDNA architecture, and are specifically designed to address the growing demand for compute-accelerated data center workloads, including AI training and a range of supercomputing applications where the compute capabilities of GPUs provide additional performance.
+Added: Our AMD Instinct™ family of GPU accelerator products, including AMD Instinct MI200 and MI300 Series which are based on AMD CDNA architecture.
+Added: AMD Instinct accelerators are designed to address the growing demand for compute-accelerated data center workloads, including AI training and inferencing, and a range of supercomputing applications where the compute capabilities of GPUs can provide additional performance.
Combined with our AMD ROCm™ open software platform, our customers can deliver differentiated accelerated platforms to address the next-generation of computing challenges while minimizing power and space needs in the data center.
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Our visual cloud data center GPUs include a range of solutions tailored towards workloads requiring remote visualization, such as Desktop-as-a-Service, Workstation-as-a-Service and Cloud Gaming.
−Removed: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing or General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) refers to a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable our discrete GPUs, working in concert with the CPU, to accelerate computational tasks beyond traditional CPU processing by utilizing the vast number of GPU cores while working with the CPU to process information cooperatively.
−Removed: In addition, computing devices with heterogeneous computing features can run computationally-intensive tasks more efficiently, which we believe provides a superior application experience to the end user.
−Removed: Moreover, heterogeneous computing allows for the elevation of the GPU to the same level as the CPU for memory access, queuing, and execution.
+Added: FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
+Added: We offer a wide range of FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs and acceleration cards for the data center.
+Added: Devices include the Virtex™ and Kintex™ FPGA products, as well as Zynq™, Zynq MPSoC, and Versal™ Adaptive SoC products.
+Added: Our Alveo™ accelerator cards provide a platform for accelerating workloads including AI processing in the data center, at the edge or the cloud.
+Added: Our AMD Alveo MA35D media accelerator is designed to deliver high channel density, power efficiency and ultra-low-latency performance.
+Added: To make it accessible for developers, Alveo is available on most major OEM server platforms, as well as a growing presence across all major cloud providers who provide FPGA-as-a-Service (FaaS).
+Added: Our P4 programmable AMD Pensando DPUs are designed to help offload data center infrastructure services from the host CPU, and coupled with our comprehensive networking software stack, AMD DPUs help enable cloud and enterprise customers to optimize performance for network, storage, and security services at cloud scale.
+Added: Designed for minimal latency, jitter and power impact, our DPUs can help large Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud providers improve workload performance for hosted virtualized and bare-metal offerings.
Client Segment
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Our CPUs are incorporated into computing platforms, which are a collection of technologies that are designed to work together to provide a more complete computing solution.
−Removed: We believe that integrated, balanced computing platforms consisting of CPUs, chipsets and GPUs (either as discrete GPUs or integrated into an APU or SoC) that work together at the system level bring end users improved system stability, increased performance and enhanced power efficiency.
−Removed: In addition, we believe customers also benefit from an all-AMD platform (consisting of an APU or CPU, a discrete GPU, and a chipset when needed), as we are able to optimize interoperability, provide our customers a single point of contact for the key platform components and enable them to bring the platforms to market quickly in a variety of PC and server system form factors.
−Removed: We currently base our CPUs and chipsets on the x86 instruction set architecture and the AMD Infinity Fabric™, which connects an on-chip memory controller and input/output (I/O) channels directly to one or more CPU cores.
+Added: We believe that integrated, balanced computing platforms consisting of CPUs, chipsets, GPUs (either as discrete GPUs or integrated into an APU or SoC) and AI accelerators that work together at the system level bring end users improved system stability, increased performance and enhanced power efficiency.
+Added: In addition, we believe customers also benefit from an all-AMD platform (consisting of an APU or CPU, a discrete GPU, a chipset and AMD software), as we are able to optimize interoperability, provide our customers a single point of contact for the key platform components and enable them to bring the platforms to market quickly in a variety of PC form factors.
+Added: We currently base our CPUs, APUs and chipsets on the x86 instruction set architecture and the AMD Infinity Fabric™, which connects an on-chip memory controller and input/output (I/O) channels directly to our compute engines and domain specific accelerators.
Client Products
Desktop CPUs.
−Removed: Our CPUs for desktop platforms currently include the AMD Ryzen™ and AMD Athlon™ series processors.
+Added: Our CPUs and APUs for desktop platforms currently include the AMD Ryzen™ and AMD Athlon™ series processors.
Our Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors are based on “Zen 4” architecture and deliver leadership performance for gamers and content creators.
−Removed: Our AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor family powered by our “Zen 3” core architecture has up to 16 cores and is the first AMD Ryzen processor to feature AMD 3D V-Cache technology to improve gaming performance.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor family powered by our “Zen 3” core architecture has up to 16 cores and provides price-performance for all levels of customers.
+Added: For gaming enthusiasts, both the Ryzen 7000 Series and 5000 Series feature models with the AMD 3D V-Cache technology designed to improve gaming performance.
+Added: AMD has returned to the high end desktop (HEDT) segment with Ryzen Threadripper™ 7000 Series processors featuring up to 64 cores.
Notebook CPUs.
Our mobile APUs, including AMD Ryzen and AMD Athlon mobile processors for the commercial and consumer markets, combine both high levels of performance and efficiency for notebook PCs.
−Removed: Our AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors for mobile applications have up to 16 “Zen 4” architecture cores.
−Removed: We also offer AMD Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors, built on “Zen 3+” architecture and AMD Ryzen 5000 Series mobile processors, which are powered with our “Zen 3” core architecture.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen 7045 Series processors are designed to deliver high performance gaming solutions.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen 7040 Series processors for mobile applications have up to 8 “Zen 4” architecture cores, are built on 4 nm process technology, and feature AMD RDNA 3 graphics.
+Added: Our Ryzen 7040 Series mobile processors also feature dedicated AI hardware in an x86 processor, with our XDNA architecture.
+Added: Built on advanced 6 nm technology, our AMD Ryzen and Athlon 7020 C-Series processors have up to four cores and eight threads built on “Zen 2” architecture and AMD RDNA 2 integrated graphics to deliver fast and responsive performance for modern productivity, video conferencing, learning apps and streaming applications.
+Added: We also offer AMD Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors, built on “Zen 3+” architecture and AMD Ryzen 5000 Series mobile processors, which are powered by both our “Zen 2” and “Zen 3” core architectures, which are designed for mainstream solutions in both consumer and commercial markets.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen Z1 Series processors bring high-performance to handheld Windows-based PC gaming platforms.
+Added: These processors feature “Zen 4” processor technology combined with RDNA 3 graphics to deliver fast PC gaming, incredible battery life, and immersive experiences in handheld systems.
Commercial CPUs.
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AMD Ryzen PRO, AMD Threadripper PRO and AMD Athlon PRO processors solutions are designed to provide enterprise customers with the performance, security capabilities and business features such as enhanced security and manageability, platform longevity and extended image stability.
−Removed: Our AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors provide full-spectrum performance across multiple workstation workloads due to the performance and efficiency of the “Zen 3” core architecture and increased processor frequencies.
−Removed: We also offer the AMD Ryzen PRO 7030 Series Mobile processors built on “Zen 3” core architecture.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors with “Zen 4” core architecture and 5000 WX-Series processors with “Zen 3” core architecture provide full-spectrum performance across multiple workstation workloads due to the performance and efficiency of the Zen CPU core with core count scaling up to 96 cores in the 7000 WX-Series.
+Added: Our Ryzen PRO 7040 Series Mobile processors are built on “Zen 4” architecture, AMD RDNA 3 integrated graphics, AMD PRO technologies and Ryzen AI, on select models.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors are built on 5 nm “Zen 4” architecture.
We offer a full suite of chipset products to support our AMD Ryzen and Threadripper platforms, including chipsets for the AM5 socket like the X670 chipsets which support PCIe ® 5.0 (fifth generation Peripheral Component Interconnect Express motherboard interface) designed for enthusiast desktop platforms.
In the AM5 platform we also offer B650 chipsets to enable a broader range of solutions in the market.
−Removed: In the AM4 ecosystem for 5000-series processors and prior, we offer the X570, B550 and A520 chipsets for socket AM4 for 3 rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processors and 5000 processors.
−Removed: In addition, we continue to offer the B450 and A320 chipsets that are combined with AMD Ryzen processors for the AM4 desktop platform for the performance and affordable mainstream platforms segments.
−Removed: In the High-End Desktop (HEDT) and Workstation segments, we offer the WRX80 chipsets to support the 3 rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper PRO platforms offering high speed I/O and platform bandwidth.
+Added: In the AM4 ecosystem for 5000-series processors and prior, we offer the X570, B550 and A520 chipsets.
+Added: In addition, we continue to offer the B450 chipsets that are combined with AMD Ryzen processors for the AM4 desktop platform for the performance and affordable mainstream platforms segments.
+Added: In HEDT and Workstation segments, we offer the WRX90 and TRX50 chipsets to support 7000-series Threadripper and Threadripper PRO platforms, as well as the WRX80 chipsets to support the 5000-series Threadripper PRO platforms.
Gaming Segment
Gaming Market
−Removed: Graphics processing is a fundamental component across many of our products and can be found in an APU, GPU, SoC or a combination of a discrete GPU with one of the other foregoing products working in tandem.
−Removed: Our customers generally use our graphics solutions to enable or increase the speed of rendering images, to help improve image resolution and color definition.
−Removed: We develop our graphics products for use in various computing devices and entertainment platforms, including desktop PCs, notebook PCs, All-in-Ones (AIOs), professional workstations, and the data center.
+Added: Graphics processing is a fundamental component across many of our products and can be found in APU, GPU, SoC or a combination of a discrete GPU with another product working in tandem.
+Added: Our customers generally use our graphics solutions to enable or increase the speed of rendering images, to help improve image resolution and color definition and/or to process AI/ML based workloads.
+Added: We develop our graphics products for use in various computing devices and entertainment platforms, including desktop PCs, notebook PCs, handheld PCs, All-in-Ones (AIOs), professional workstations, and the data center.
With each of our graphics products, we have available drivers and supporting software packages that enable the effective use of these products under a variety of operating systems and applications.
−Removed: We have developed AMD RDNA™ 3, a high performing and power efficient graphics architecture, which is the foundation for next-generation PC gaming graphics.
−Removed: Additionally, our RDNA 2 architecture supports advanced graphics features such as ray tracing, AMD Infinity Cache™ and variable rate shading.
+Added: We have developed AMD RDNA™ 3, a high performing and power efficient graphics architecture, featuring a chiplet design, AI accelerators and the Radiance Display™ Engine.
+Added: This generation continues to support advanced graphics features introduced with RDNA 2, such as ray tracing, AMD Infinity Cache™ and variable rate shading.
The Sony PlayStation ® 5 and Microsoft ® Xbox Series S™ and X™ game consoles also feature our RDNA graphics architecture.
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Semi-Custom Products.
−Removed: Our semi-custom products are tailored, co-developed, high-performance, customer-specific solutions based on our CPU, GPU and multi-media technologies.
+Added: Our semi-custom products are tailored, high-performance, customer-specific solutions based on our CPU, GPU and multi-media technologies.
We work closely with our customers to define solutions to precisely match the requirements of the device or application.
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Our AMD Radeon series discrete GPU processors for desktop and notebook PCs support current generation application program interfaces (APIs) like DirectX® 12 Ultimate and Vulkan ® , support high-refresh rate displays using AMD FreeSync™, AMD FreeSync Premium, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro technologies, and are designed to support VR in PC platforms.
−Removed: Our AMD Radeon Software expands remote gaming functionality and enables new features and customization capabilities.
+Added: Our AMD Radeon Software offers performance enhancing tools and enables new features and customization capabilities to customers and end-users.
In addition, we also offer tools for game developers such as our AMD FidelityFX™ open-source image quality software toolkit that helps deliver improved visual quality with minimal performance overhead.
FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) uses upscaling technologies to help boost frame rates in games.
−Removed: Our FSR 2.0 technology uses temporal data and optimized anti-aliasing to boost frame rates in supported games while delivering similar or better image quality than native resolution without requirement dedicated machine learning hardware.
−Removed: Our AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics cards are built on high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA 3 architecture.
−Removed: AMD Radeon RX 7900 series chiplet design combines 5 nm and 6 nm process nodes, each optimized for specific chips in the GPU.
+Added: Our FSR 2.0 technology uses temporal data and optimized anti-aliasing to boost frame rates in supported games while delivering similar or better image quality than native resolution without the requirement of dedicated machine learning hardware.
+Added: Our FSR 3.0 technology combines the upscaling features of prior versions while introducing our AMD Fluid Motion Frames Technology which generates interpolated frames between native frames to increase the frame rate of games for a smoother gaming experience.
+Added: Varying versions of FSR are supported in over 250 games and multiple products including Radeon GPUs, Ryzen APUs, and many of our Semi-custom solutions.
+Added: Being an open-source technology FSR works across competing hardware solutions as well.
+Added: Our AMD Radeon RX 7000 series are built on the high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA3 architecture which provides up to 96 compute units, second generation high-bandwidth, low-latency AMD Infinity Cache technology as well as dedicated AI and ray tracing hardware.
+Added: The AMD RDNA 3 architecture provides process optimizations plus firmware and software enhancements and supports AI-accelerated video encoding and hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding.
+Added: It uses high-speed GDDR6 video RAM (VRAM) and targets discrete desktop GPUs with up to 24GB of VRAM, notebook GPUs with up to 16GB of VRAM.
We continue to offer AMD Radeon RX 6000 series discrete graphics, based on our RDNA2 architecture, for high-performance gaming desktops and notebooks.
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Adrenalin Edition, AMD Ryzen series mobile processors and utilizing AMD smart technologies to provide best-in-class gaming experiences.
−Removed: AMD RDNA 3 gaming architecture is included in our newer AMD Radeon RX graphics cards giving process optimizations plus firmware and software enhancements and high-bandwidth, low-latency AMD Infinity Cache technology and GDDR6 memory at up to 20Gbps.
Professional GPUs.
−Removed: Our AMD Radeon PRO family of professional graphics products includes multi-view graphics cards and GPUs designed for integration in mobile and desktop workstations.
−Removed: AMD Radeon PRO graphics cards are designed for demanding use cases such as design and manufacturing for CAD, and media and entertainment for broadcast and animation pipelines.
−Removed: AMD Radeon PRO supports end users utilizing GPU accelerated visualization for construction, architecture and mechanical design through gaming and visualization engines on high resolution displays.
−Removed: Our AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series workstation graphics include AMD RDNA 2 architecture and AMD Infinity Cache and are designed to reduce latency and power consumption and to optimize design workloads, including 3D rendering, 8K video composition and color correction, complex design and engineering simulations along with image and video editing applications.
+Added: Our AMD Radeon W7000 PRO family of professional graphics products are based on the AMD RDNA3 architecture and are designed for integration in mobile and desktop workstations.
+Added: AMD Radeon PRO graphics cards are designed to optimize design workloads across demanding use cases such as 3D rendering, design and manufacturing for CAD, and media and entertainment for broadcast and animation pipelines on high resolution displays.
+Added: Our AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series supports workstation GPUs with up to 48GB of VRAM and features the AMD Radiance Display Engine™ featuring DisplayPort™ 2.1 that delivers very high resolution and refresh rates, image fidelity and color accuracy.
+Added: We continue to offer our AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series workstation graphics products based on our AMD RDNA 2 architecture for high-performance workstations.
Embedded Segment
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The Embedded segment primarily includes embedded CPUs, GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, and Adaptive SoC products.
−Removed: Embedded products address computing needs in automotive, industrial, test, measurement, emulation, medical, multimedia, aerospace, defense, communications, networking, security, and storage markets as well as thin clients, which are computers that serve as an access device on a network.
+Added: Embedded products address computing needs in automotive, industrial, test, measurement, emulation, medical, broadcast, professional audio visual (ProAV), aerospace, defense, communications, networking, security, and storage markets as well as thin clients, which are computers that serve as an access device on a network.
Typically, our embedded products are used in applications that require varying levels of performance, where key features may include relatively low power, small form factors, and 24x7 operations.
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Embedded CPUs, APUs and GPUs .
−Removed: Our products for embedded platforms include AMD Embedded EPYC CPUs, AMD Embedded Ryzen V-Series APUs, CPUs and SoCs, AMD Embedded Ryzen R-Series APUs, CPUs and SoCs .
+Added: Our products for embedded platforms include AMD EPYC Embedded CPUs, AMD Ryzen Embedded V-Series APUs and CPUs, AMD Ryzen Embedded R-Series APUs and CPUs, AMD Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series processors and AMD Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processors .
Our embedded processors and GPUs are designed to support high performance and bandwidth network connectivity and security, high-performance storage requirements for enterprise and cloud infrastructure, 3D graphics performance and 4K multimedia requirements of automotive infotainment systems.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series processors use “Zen 3” x86 CPU core architecture and are designed for enterprise reliability to support the consistent uptime requirements needed by security and networking customers.
+Added: Our AMD Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processor family combines “Zen 4” architecture and integrated Radeon RDNA 2 graphics for a wide range of embedded applications, including industrial automation, machine vision, robotics and edge servers.
FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
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Adaptive SoC products include the Zynq SoC and UltraScale+ Multi-Processing System on a Chip (MPSoCs) which combine FPGA technology with a heterogeneous processing system, as well as the industry’s first RFSoC architecture with integrated radio frequency (RF) data converters.
−Removed: The Versal portfolio is composed of software-programmable Adaptive SoCs, with a heterogeneous compute platform that combines Scalar Engines, Adaptable Engines, and Intelligent Engines to achieve dramatic performance improvements over today's fastest FPGA and accelerate applications in a wide variety of markets, including data center, wired network, 5G wireless, automotive, industrial, scientific, medical, aerospace and defense.
+Added: The Versal portfolio is composed of software-programmable Adaptive SoCs, with a heterogeneous compute platform that combines Scalar Engines, Adaptable Engines, and Intelligent Engines to achieve dramatic performance improvements over today's fastest FPGA and accelerate applications in a wide variety of markets, including data center, wired network, 5G wireless infrastructure, automotive, industrial, scientific, medical, aerospace and defense.
Development Boards, Kits and Configuration Products.
We offer development kits for all our FPGA and Adaptive SoC products that include hardware, development tools, IP and reference designs that are designed to streamline and accelerate the development of domain-specific and market-specific applications.
+Added: Our AMD Kria™ K24 SOM provides high determinism and low latency for powering electric drives and motor controllers used in compute-intensive digital signal processing (DSP) applications at the edge.
+Added: Coupled with our KD240 Drives Starter Kit, an out-of-the-box-ready motor control-based development platform, the products offer a seamless path to production deployment with the K24 SOM.
Legacy Product Families.
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Our Vitis™ unified software platform enables the development and deployment of embedded software and accelerated applications, on our FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
−Removed: Out Vitis AI unified software platform enables the development and deployment of AI software on our FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
+Added: Our Vitis AI unified software platform enables the development and deployment of AI software on our FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs.
Sales and Marketing
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Our client processors include:
−Removed: AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, Ryzen Threadripper, Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, and AMD PRO A-Series.
+Added: AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, AMD Ryzen Threadripper, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, and AMD PRO A-Series.
These products service desktop and notebook personal computers.
Our product brand for the consumer graphics market is AMD Radeon graphics, and AMD Embedded Radeon graphics is our product brand for the embedded graphics market.
−Removed: Our product brand for professional graphics products are AMD Radeon PRO graphics.
−Removed: Our product brands for data center graphics are Radeon Instinct, Radeon PRO V-series, and AMD Instinct accelerators for servers.
+Added: Our product brand for professional graphics products is AMD Radeon PRO graphics.
+Added: Our product brands for data center graphics are Radeon PRO V-series, and AMD Instinct accelerators for servers.
We also market and sell our chipsets under AMD trademarks.
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Our product brands for Adaptive SoCs are Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs, Versal HBM, Versal Premium, Versal Prime, Versal AI Core, Versal AI Edge, Vitis and Vivado.
−Removed: Our compute and network acceleration board products are sold under the Alveo brand.
+Added: Our product brand for System-on-Module (SOM) is Kria.
+Added: Our compute and network acceleration board products are sold under the Alveo and Pensando brands.
We market our products through direct marketing and co-marketing programs.
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Under our co-marketing development programs, eligible customers can use market development funds as reimbursement for advertisements and marketing programs related to our products and third-party systems integrating our products, subject to meeting defined criteria.
−Removed: Our microprocessor customers consist primarily of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), large public cloud service providers, original design manufacturers (ODMs), system integrators and independent distributors in both domestic and international markets.
+Added: Our Data Center Segment customers consist primarily of hyperscale data centers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), system integrators and independent distributors in both domestic and international markets.
ODMs provide design and/or manufacturing services to branded and unbranded private label resellers, OEMs and system builders.
−Removed: Customers of our microprocessor products also include online and brick and mortar retailers.
−Removed: Our graphics product customers include the foregoing as well as add-in-board manufacturers (AIBs).
−Removed: Customers of our chipset products consist primarily of PC OEMs, often through ODMs or other contract manufacturers, who build the OEM motherboards, as well as desktop and server motherboard manufacturers who incorporate chipsets into their channel motherboards.
−Removed: Our FPGA and Adaptive SOC products are sold to customers in a very wide range of markets such as Aerospace and Defense, Test and Measurement, Industrial, Automotive, Consumers, Broadcast, Communication Infrastructure and Data Center.
+Added: Customers of our Client Segment products consist primarily of PC OEMs, a network of independent distributors and, for chipset products, ODMs that manufacture motherboards.
+Added: Our Gaming Segment customers include PC OEMs and independent distributors as well as add-in-board manufacturers (AIBs), independent game console and portable gaming devices manufacturers and contract manufacturers for AMD branded graphics cards.
+Added: Our Embedded Segment products are sold to customers in a very wide range of markets such as Aerospace and Defense, Test and Measurement, Industrial, Automotive, Consumers, Broadcast, Communication Infrastructure and Data Center.
For these products we either sell directly to our customers or through a network of distributors and OEM partners.
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We believe that our commitment to customer service and design support improves our customers’ time-to-market and fosters relationships that encourage customers to use the next generation of our products.
−Removed: We also work with our customers to create differentiated products that leverage our CPU, GPU and APU technology.
+Added: We also work with our customers to create differentiated products that leverage our CPU, GPU, DPU and APU technology.
Certain customers pay us non-recurring engineering fees for design and development services and a purchase price for the resulting products.
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Our OEM customers include numerous foreign and domestic manufacturers of servers and workstations, desktops, notebooks, PC motherboards and game consoles.
+Added: Hyperscale Data Centers
+Added: Large multi-national public cloud service providers and hyperscale private data centers directly and indirectly purchase a substantial portion of our data center-focused products, including server CPUs, GPU accelerators, DPUs, FPGAs and Adaptive SOCs.
+Added: These products are incorporated into servers and other data center appliances sold by OEMs to the hyperscale customers or into custom servers or hardware designed by or for these customers and manufactured by ODMs or contract manufacturers.
+Added: Hyperscale data centers use these products to operate web-based applications or to support public cloud computing and storage service offerings, including but not limited to AI workloads such as generative AI models.
Third-Party Distributors
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SIs often use discrete graphics solutions as a means to differentiate their products and add value to their customers.
+Added: The markets in which our products are sold are highly competitive and delivering the latest and best products to market on a timely basis is critical to achieving revenue growth.
+Added: We believe that the main factors that determine our product competitiveness are total cost of ownership, timely product introductions, product quality, product features and capabilities (including accelerations for key workloads such as AI, energy efficiency (including power consumption and battery life, given their impact on total cost of ownership), reliability, processor clock speed, performance, size (or form factor), selling price, cost, adherence to industry standards (and the creation of open industry standards), level of integration, software and hardware compatibility, ease of use and functionality of software design tools, completeness of applicable software solutions, security and stability, brand recognition and availability.
+Added: We expect that competition will continue to be intense due to rapid technological changes, frequent product introductions by our competitors or new competitors of products that may provide better performance or experience or that may include additional features that render our products comparatively less competitive.
Competition in Data Center Segment
−Removed: In Data Center, we compete against Intel Corporation (Intel) with our FPGA, Adaptive SoC, CPU and DPU server products and NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA) with our CPU, GPU and DPU server products.
−Removed: A variety of companies provide or have developed ARM-based microprocessors and platforms.
−Removed: ARM-based designs are being used in the server market, which could lead to further growth and development of the ARM ecosystem.
+Added: In Data Center, we compete against Intel Corporation (Intel) and NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA) with our CPU, GPU and DPU server products.
+Added: In addition, we compete against Intel with our FPGA and Adaptive SoC server products.
+Added: A variety of smaller fabless silicon companies offer proprietary accelerator solutions and ARM based CPUs targeting data center use-cases.
+Added: In addition, some of our customers are internally developing their own data center microprocessor products and accelerator products which could impact the available market for our products.
Competition in Client Segment
−Removed: The markets in which we participate are highly competitive.
−Removed: Our primary competitor in the supply of CPUs is Intel.
+Added: Our primary competitor in the supply of CPUs and APUs is Intel.
A variety of companies provide or have developed ARM-based microprocessors and platforms.
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Competition in Gaming Segment
−Removed: In the graphics market, our principal competitor in the supply of discrete graphics is NVIDIA who is the market share leader.
−Removed: Intel also manufactures and sells embedded graphics processors and integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipsets.
−Removed: Also, Intel has developed their own gaming-focused discrete GPUs and has entered the market.
−Removed: Other competitors include suppliers of discrete graphics and integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipsets.
−Removed: Some of our competitors are smaller companies, which may have greater flexibility to address specific market needs, but less financial resources to address the growing complexity of graphics processors and the associated research and development costs.
+Added: In the graphics market, our principal competitor in the supply of discrete graphics is NVIDIA, who is the market share leader, and Intel, who manufactures and sells integrated graphics processors and gaming-focused discrete GPUs.
With respect to integrated graphics, higher unit shipments of our APUs and Intel’s integrated graphics may drive computer manufacturers to reduce the number of systems they build paired with discrete graphics components, particularly for notebooks, because they may offer satisfactory graphics performance for most mainstream PC users at a lower cost.
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In addition, we expect continued competition from the ASIC market, which has been ongoing since the inception of FPGAs.
−Removed: Other competitors include manufacturers of:
−Removed: • high-density programmable logic products characterized by FPGA-type architectures;
+Added: Intel is our main competitor for embedded CPUs.
+Added: Other competitors include manufacturers of high-density programmable logic products characterized by FPGA-type architectures;
high-volume and low-cost FPGAs as programmable replacements for ASICs and ASSPs;
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discrete general-purpose GPUs targeting data center and automotive applications;
−Removed: • other new or emerging programmable logic products .
+Added: and other new or emerging programmable logic products .
Research and Development
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(GF), with respect to wafer purchases for our HPC products at the 12 nm and 14 nm technology nodes.
−Removed: Additionally, we purchase wafers from United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
+Added: Additionally, we utilize TSMC, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
+Added: for the production of our integrated circuits (IC) in the form of programmable logic devices.
Other Third-Party Manufacturers
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Although such orders or agreements may provide visibility into future quarters, they may not necessarily be indicative of actual sales for any succeeding period as some of these orders or agreements may be revised or canceled without penalty.
−Removed: With respect to our semi-custom SoC products our orders and agreements are more stringent resulting in meaningful backlog for the coming quarter.
Our operating results tend to vary seasonally.
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Innovation occurs when creative minds and diverse perspectives from all over the world work together.
−Removed: This is the foundation of our unique culture and the reason why our employees are among the most engaged in our industry.
+Added: This is the foundation of our unique culture and the reason why we believe our employees are among the most engaged in our industry.
We conduct a confidential annual survey of our global workforce to measure our culture, engagement, and manager quality.
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Our employees described our culture as inclusive, innovative, open, and respectful, and rated the quality of our managers among the top 10% of our technology industry peers.
−Removed: Diversity, Belonging and Inclusion
+Added: Diversity, Belonging and Inclusion (DB&I)
Our diverse and inclusive workforce encourages employees to share their opinions and different perspectives.
We believe that building a diverse talent pipeline, encouraging a culture of respect and belonging, and increasing inclusion of unique and underrepresented voices makes our company stronger.
−Removed: Our Employee Resource Groups encourage employee engagement and play an important role in our culture.
−Removed: In 2022, we were recognized for the sixth consecutive year by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ equality and were included in Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year.
+Added: Our Employee Resource Groups, which are open to all our employees, encourage employee engagement and play an important role in our culture.
+Added: More than 85% of all new hires join at least one of AMD’s employee resource groups when starting employment.
We are focused on hiring and developing underrepresented groups and women leaders.
−Removed: We are proud to be led by a highly regarded CEO who has won many esteemed awards for her business and leadership prowess.
−Removed: Lisa Su was listed among “Fortune’s Most Powerful Women”.
−Removed: In the last two years, she also received the “Woman Innovation Award” from the Global Semiconductor Alliance and was listed among Barron’s World’s Best CEOs and Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women.
−Removed: In addition, Dr.
−Removed: Su continues to support President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
+Added: In 2023, we increased focus on developing our female engineering community by launching an experiential program, “Advancing Women in Technology,” that aims to support career development.
+Added: We are proud to be led by Dr.
+Added: Lisa Su, a highly regarded CEO who has won many esteemed awards for her business and leadership prowess.
Total Rewards
−Removed: We invest in our workforce by offering competitive salaries, incentives, and benefits to ensure that we continue to attract and retain the industry’s best and brightest.
+Added: We invest in our workforce by offering competitive salaries, incentives, and benefits to ensure that we continue to attract and retain the industry’s best and brightest in an equitable manner.
+Added: We perform pay equity analysis regularly and act on results, if warranted.
Our rewards are guided by employees’ preferences and the market for talent.
+Added: We focus on flexibility and choice in our benefits that resonate with a multi-generational workforce as well as offering inclusive benefits that support our DB&I objectives, such as global parental and bereavement leave, and financial assistance to build a family through adoption or surrogacy.
+Added: While we believe that there is unique collaboration that can occur when employees meet in person, we have not mandated that all employees return to the office five days a week, allowing flexibility with hybrid and remote work as options for our employees.
We have a strong pay for performance culture that we believe drives superior results.
−Removed: Our employees have benefited from our robust financial results with very strong short-term and long-term incentives.
−Removed: Our rewards programs enabled us to attract, retain and motivate our workforce, including approximately 10,000 new AMDers who were added to the company through acquisitions and direct hiring during fiscal year 2022.
+Added: Our employees have benefited from our robust financial results through our strong short-term and long-term incentive programs.
+Added: Our rewards programs enable us to attract, retain and motivate our workforce.
We offer our employees opportunities to advance their careers at the Company and the majority of our new leaders are promoted from within.
We are focused on leadership progression and encourage our employees to take advantage of new opportunities.
−Removed: Our manager and leadership development programs are highly rated, and we provide specialized development programs for our employees.
+Added: Our manager and leadership development programs are highly rated, and we provide specialized development programs for our employees as well as educational assistance in the form of tuition reimbursement for eligible employees to continue their university education or achieve advanced certifications.
+Added: We have an enterprise-wide mentoring program where employees have the opportunity to learn from experienced colleagues, develop new skills, and build their professional networks.
+Added: The program also supports effective onboarding, helping new hires more quickly acclimate to our company culture and work processes.
+Added: We believe that our mentoring program is a valuable investment in our workforce, and we are committed to its ongoing success.
+Added: Employee Voice
+Added: At AMD, we value the importance of employee voice and actively engage in efforts to ensure that our employees' opinions and perspectives are heard and considered.
+Added: Our employee voice strategy includes an annual AMDer Survey (engagement survey).
+Added: Our scores rank AMD in the top 10% of high tech firms on like questions, categories and overall score.
+Added: Additionally, we measure effectiveness across all elements of the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, exit, and various ad hoc surveys including benefits and total rewards satisfaction.
+Added: Further, our executive team holds frequent employee roundtables, town halls and global team meetings with question-and-answer segments which facilitates open communication and feedback from our workforce.
+Added: Government Regulations
+Added: Our global operations are subject to various United States and foreign laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those relating to export control, customs, intellectual property, data privacy and security, climate, environmental, health and safety requirements, cybersecurity, tax, employment, competition and anti-trust, anti-corruption, anti-bribery, conflict minerals, corporate governance, financial and other disclosures, and AI.
+Added: Compliance with these governmental laws and regulations do not presently have a material adverse impact on our capital expenditures, results of operations or competitive position.
+Added: However, compliance with changes to existing or new regulations may have a material adverse impact on our future capital expenditures, results of operations or competitive position.
+Added: In addition, the failure to comply with government laws and regulations may subject us to consequences including fines, limits on our ability to sell our products, suspension of certain of our business activities, reputational damage, criminal and civil liabilities, and sanctions, which may have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures, results of operations or competitive position.
+Added: For additional information about government regulations applicable to our business, and their potential impacts see Risk Factors in Item 1A.
Environmental Regulations
−Removed: Our operations and properties have in the past been and continue to be subject to various United States and foreign laws and regulations, including those relating to materials used in our products and manufacturing processes, discharge of pollutants into the environment, the treatment, transport, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and remediation of contamination.
+Added: Our operations and properties are subject to various United States and foreign laws and regulations, including those relating to materials used in our products and the manufacturing processes of our products, discharge of pollutants into the environment, the treatment, transport, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and remediation of contamination.
These laws and regulations require our suppliers to obtain permits for operations making our products, including the discharge of air pollutants and wastewater.
−Removed: Environmental laws are complex, change frequently and have tended to become more stringent over time.
−Removed: For example, the European Union (EU) and China are two among a growing number of jurisdictions that have enacted restrictions on the use of lead and other materials in electronic products.
+Added: Environmental laws are complex, change frequently and tend to become more stringent over time.
+Added: For example, the European Union (EU) and China are among a growing number of jurisdictions that have enacted restrictions on the use of lead and other materials in electronic products.
These regulations affect semiconductor devices and packaging.
−Removed: A number of jurisdictions including the EU, Australia, California and China are developing or have finalized market entry or public procurement regulations for computers and servers based on ENERGY STAR specifications as well as additional energy consumption limits.
+Added: Jurisdictions including the EU, Australia, California and China are developing or have finalized market entry or public procurement regulations for computers and servers based on ENERGY STAR specifications as well as additional energy consumption limits.
Certain environmental laws, including the United States Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, or the Superfund Act, impose strict or, under certain circumstances, joint and several liability on current and previous owners or operators of real property for the cost of removal or remediation of hazardous substances and impose liability for damages to natural resources.
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