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I. Company Profile 2
II. Assessment into the company's performance and its future 8
III. Evaluation of major stock price fluctuations 13
Appendices 18
I. Company Profile
History
As the AMD story has unfolded, our product lines have expanded, our culture has evolved, and the individual successes of our people have grown. Here's a brief summary of the nearly three decades that have passed - and a very favorable Indication of the years that lie ahead.
Among the things that unite AMD employees around the globe Is a history highlighted by remarkable achievement. Since 1969, AMD has grown from a fledgling start-up, headquartered in the living room of one of its founders, to a global corporation with annual revenues of $4.6 billion. The events that shaped AMD's growth, the strengths that will drive our future success, and a timeline' encompassing AMD's defining moments are featured here.
1969-74 - Finding Opportunity
By May 1, 1969, Jerry Sanders and seven others had been toiling for months to pull together their scrappy start-up. The year before, Jerry had left his job as director of worldwide marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor, and he now found himself heading a team committed to a well-defined mission--bulling a successful semiconductor company by offering building blocks of ever-increasing complexity to benefit the manufacturers of electronic equipment in the computation, communication and instrumentation markets.
Although the company was initially headquartered in the living room of one of the co-founders, John Carey, it soon moved to two rooms in the back of a rug cutting company in Santa Clara. By September, AMD had raised the money it needed to begin manufacturing products and moved into its first permanent home, 901 Thompson Place in Sunnyvale.
During the company's first years, the vast majority of its products were alternate-source devices, products obtained from other companies that were then redesigned...