AMD
SaaS & TechSanta Clara, California, United States
American semiconductor company designing CPUs, GPUs and adaptive computing hardware for data centres, gaming, PCs and embedded systems. Its Instinct accelerators and open-source ROCm software platform compete with Nvidia in AI compute. India hosts roughly a quarter of its global workforce.
Leadership
JJJaya JagadishSenior Vice President and Country Head, AMD India
MPMark PapermasterChief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
The AMD journey
1969 · founded
Founded in Santa Clara by ["Jaya Jagadish", "Mark Papermaster"].
Nov 2023 · milestone
Inaugurates its largest global design centre in Bengaluru, nearly two decades after opening its first India Design Centre there in 2004. ↗
Sep 2025 · milestone
Pledges 100,000 hours of free AMD Developer Cloud access to Indian researchers and startups, and commits to training 100,000 Indian STEM graduates in AI and GPU programming over three years. ↗
Sep 2026 · acquisition
Agrees to acquire spatial intelligence lab World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, its second-largest acquisition after Xilinx, with Fei-Fei Li joining as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist. ↗
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What is AMD?
American semiconductor company designing CPUs, GPUs and adaptive computing hardware for data centres, gaming, PCs and embedded systems. Its Instinct accelerators and open-source ROCm software platform compete with Nvidia in AI compute. India hosts roughly a quarter of its global workforce.
Who founded AMD?
AMD's founders and leadership on record at StartupFox are ["Jaya Jagadish" and "Mark Papermaster"].
What is the latest news on AMD?
The most recent StartupFox coverage is “AMD Is Buying World Labs For $8.2 Billion, Seven Months After Valuing It At $5 Billion” (30 September 2026). All stories are listed on this page.
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