AMD opens global design centre in Hyderabad

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc, an NYSE-listed semiconductor design company, inaugurated a new global design centre in Hyderabad on Thursday. The 175,000-sft facility is dedicated to furthering both software and hardware innovations at the heart of AMD’s APUs (accelerated processing units).

Globally, it employs over 10,000, including 6,000 engineers. Of these, around 550 engineers work out of its Hyderabad centre and an equal number in the Bangalore facility.

“The products that we are innovating and creating here in Hyderabad and Bangalore and across the world, is hitting that kind of experience that the customer wants. This is the kind of leadership that I think you are going to see out of AMD, going forward,” said AMD Inc’s president and chief executive officer, Rory Read.