AMD Austin Turns 25

[H]ard|OCP - AMD Austin Turns 25:AMD Thursday celebrated its first 25 years
in Austin, TX. Founded in Silicon Valley in 1969, AMD began operations
in Austin in the fall of 1979 with 72 employees. Today, the global
technology company employs more than 3,000 employees in Austin where it
designs industry-leading 64-bit microprocessors, low-power embedded
processors and operates a state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing
facility, AMD Fab 25, which produces Flash memory – a pervasive
technology that is powering the rapid growth in digital devices such as
mobile phones, PDAs, and DVD players.