We recently interviewed Glen Matthews, Head of Product Management from AMD at SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations, personal computers and embedded system applications. AMD is the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the market for x86-based microprocessors. Since acquiring ATI in 2006, AMD and its competitor Nvidia have maintained a competitive duopoly in the discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) market.

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