What is "amd"

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) or Advanced Micro Devices is an American integrated circuit manufacturer, especially processors. Their products compete directly with processors manufactured by Intel. Best known for its x86 and x86-64 processors; K5, K6-II, K6-III, Athlon, Duron, Sempron, Athlon 64 (64-bit architecture), Sempron 64 (also 64-bit architecture), Opteron (for servers), and Turion 64 (for notebooks) more recently also started to manufacture graphics processors