Corporate Responsibility 

At AMD, corporate responsibility guides our company's culture and drives everything we do. Our success in business is built on a core value of respect for people. From our employees around the world, to our customers and partners, to the families who live in the communities where we operate - people come first and foremost.

We strive to serve the needs of customers through innovative technologies that break new ground, such as accelerated computing. Accelerated computing is a framework that improves how hardware and software interact to support emerging application areas and evolving workloads while providing energy efficiency, great performance, and competitively priced computer systems. We believe that accelerated computing embodies a rapidly approaching paradigm shift that will create many opportunities to customize computer systems by providing targeted, precise solutions for different kinds of workloads, whether at work, home, or play.

2008 Corporate Responsibility Report

Our report provides information on programs addressing environmental protection, social responsibility, and economic performance at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and consolidated subsidiaries. Operational data for 2008 contained in this report is for AMD majority-owned and operated facilities located in Sunnyvale, California; Austin, Texas; Markham, Ontario; Dresden, Germany; Penang, Malaysia; Singapore; and Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China for the period January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. Financial information is for AMD's fiscal years ended December 31, 2006, December 29, 2007 and December 27, 2008. Additionally, the report includes information for newly formed GLOBALFOUNDRIES, formerly AMD's wafer manufacturing and associated wafer manufacturing research and development operations.  GLOBALFOUNDRIES was launched March 3, 2009 and is a semiconductor foundry formed by a joint venture between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC). 

AMD has produced annual reports on the company's environmental, health, and safety (EHS) operations since 1995. The company added aspects of economic and social responsibility in our first Sustainability Progress Report covering 2000.  Sustainability and later Corporate Responsibility reports were issued annually through 2005.  Sustainability-related information was posted on AMD's website in 2006 and 2007 and is currently maintained with the most up-to-date data here.

AMD incorporates elements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in this report.

With the exception of financial information, operating data provided in this report has not been verified. Operating data is collected from many different global locations using well established processes that include a rigorous review of the data and explanation of trends.