Advanced Micro Devices, founded in Sunnyvale, California in 1969, has been one of Austin's leading high-tech employers for more than 27 years. In a highly competitive market, AMD recognizes that employee productivity and operational efficiency are critical to remaining a technology leader and contributing member of the Austin community. Additionally, AMD takes seriously its core values of integrity and corporate responsibility.

Starting with 72 employees in 1979, AMD now has more than 2,000 employees spread from southeast Austin to northwest Austin. With this diffusion of employees, AMD recognized the need to consolidate design and administrative functions into a single campus-style setting. Spansion™, — formerly AMD’s flash memory unit, now a publically-owned company — maintains manufacturing operations at the current location of Fab 25 in southeast Austin.

AMD's Austin Impact*
3,178 jobs in design, engineering, marketing and management
$331 million in annual payroll and benefits
$110.8 million in local purchases
$3.1 million in City of Austin and Travis County property taxes
$5.8 million in Del Valle ISD property taxes
$21 million local sales** and use taxes
$22.7 million to Austin Energy and Austin Water Utility

*Based on 2005 AMD and Spansion figures. Spansion filed its IPO on Dec. 21, 2005.
**Estimated