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AMD Austin and the New AMD Lone Star Campus
Advanced Micro Devices, founded in Sunnyvale, California in 1969, has been one of Austin's leading high-tech employers for more than 25 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.
The new AMD Lone Star campus in Austin reflects our belief in the importance of responsible corporate citizenship. We feel that being a sustainable company is a continuous journey that creates long-term economic, social, and environmental opportunities.
Starting with 72 employees in 1979, AMD now has more than 2,000 local employees spread across 12 buildings 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.
Through a comprehensive site selection process involving collaboration with business, community, and neighborhood leaders, AMD selected a 60-acre parcel within the Lantana development at the corner of Southwest Parkway and William Cannon Drive.
This site at Lantana is zoned by the City of Austin for commercial development and is readily available with existing entitlements. But entitlements alone are not enough for AMD. We share this community's desire to protect the environment and plan to set a new standard for responsible development in Austin.
Construction of the new campus began in 2006, with completion expected in 2008. This page will continue to be updated with new information as plans for the new site develop.
AMD in Austin
1979: AMD begins operations in Austin with 72 employees and opens Fab 5 in Austin, its first U.S. chip plant outside Silicon Valley.
1982: Fab 10 opens.
1985: Fab 14 and Fab 15 open in Austin.
1986: AMD employees in Austin hold their first blood drive. Since then, local employees have donated more than 6,000 units of blood.
1993: AMD announces plans for Fab 25, a $1.4 billion facility.
1994: Fab 25 construction completed.
1995: Large-scale production begins at Fab 25.
2001: AMD receives “Commitment to Community Award” from the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.
2002: Hector Ruiz, Austin resident and alumni of the University of Texas at Austin, is named CEO.
2003: AMD launches AMD Opteron™ processors, which were designed in part in Austin.
2004: AMD receives “Commitment to Community Award” from the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.
2005: AMD announces plans to create a new campus in southwest Austin.
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