AMD History
Where is AMD currently headquartered?
A) San Jose, California
B) Austin, Texas
C) Sunnyvale, California
D) Santa Clara, California
D) Santa Clara, California
What is AMD’s main CPU brand for consumers?
A) Ryzen
B) EPYC
C) Threadripper
D) Radeon
A) Ryzen
Who is AMD’s founder?
A) Jerry Sanders
B) Lisa Su
C) Gordon Moore
D) Robert Noyce
A) Jerry Sanders
When was AMD founded?
A) 1959
B) 1969
C) 1989
D) 1999
B) 1969
AMD’s EPYC processors are mainly used for:
A) Laptops
B) Gaming Consoles
C) Servers & Data Centers
D) Smartphones
C) Servers & Data Centers
AMD supplies custom chips for which two major gaming consoles?
A) Nintendo & Sony
B) Sony & Microsoft
C) Microsoft & Sega
D) Dell & HP
B) Sony & Microsoft (PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X)
What company did AMD acquire in 2006 to expand into the graphics market?
A) VIA Technologies
B) ATI Technologies
C) Trident Microsystems
D) Xilinx
B) ATI Technologies
Which custom AMD chip powers the PlayStation 5?
A) Ryzen Z1 Extreme
B) Oberon
C) Raphael
D) EPYC 9654
B) Oberon
AMD’s chip fabrication partners mainly use which process node for Ryzen 7000 CPUs?
A) 10 nm B) 7 nm C) 5 nm D) 3 nm
C) 5 nm
What was AMD’s very first product that is owned, designed by AMD released in 1970?
A) AM2501 Logic Counter
B) AM9080 Microprocessor
C) AM2900 Bit-Slice Processor
D) AM9300 Shift Register
A) AM2501 Logic Counter
Which AMD processor line introduced the world’s first chiplet-based architecture for desktop CPUs?
A) Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2)
B) Ryzen 1000 series (Zen 1)
C) Ryzen 5000 series (Zen 3)
D) Ryzen 7000 series (Zen 4)
A) Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2)
In 2020, AMD made headlines for powering which world’s fastest supercomputer at that time?
A) Summit
B) El Capitan
C) Fugaku
D) Frontier
D) Frontier