After graduation he worked at Douglas Aircraft Company. He then moved to Motorola, then to Fairchild Semiconductor. He is known as one of the best sellers at Fairchild in the 1960s and is known for her style and compliment. In 1968 Sherman Fairchild brought a new management team in Fairchild Semiconductor, led by C. Lester Hogan, who at the time was vice president of Motorola. Troops from Motorola known as "Hogan's Heroes" is very conservative and not long after clash with high-spirited style Sander. Male graduate of the University of Illinois in 1958 the Electrical Engineerig this, it is also critical thinking. He is not afraid to rumble name Intel processors in the market world. When the company launched the Intel Pentium processor (Intel 8080). Sanders also desperately fighting for in order to get the technology, then when Vinod Dham, the project leader Intel Pentiumnya no small-scale clashes with some of Intel, then immediately Sanders offered men's native India to mengarap processor which later was named K6.In 1969 a group of engineers Fairchild decided to start a new company, which is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). They asked Jerrry Sander to join them, and he said he agreed, he became president of the circuitry requirements of the company. Despite the many disagreements within the group, but they agreed and a new company was formed with Sanders as President.
Sanders running style in his position as CEO of AMD. He remains the company's expert salesman, always present in heavy negotiations and approach them. She likes to visit the office of Los Angeles near Hollywood and stayed at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Sanders has always wanted to make money, but he also realized that the key to wealth is to get people in AMD also get a lot of money too. The more he is rich, he also gave his wealth to the royal to its employees. At the end of the first quarter in which their companies generate $ 1 million, Sanders was standing in the door and give the company a piece of $ 100 to all employees when they leave the office. Pegawain in the entire company get stock options, a major innovation at the time.Sanders makes orientation a strong sales and marketing for
the company, so the company is quite successful although slightly behind its competitors in technology and production. He divides his company's success with employees, usually coinciding with the achievement of sales targets. One time, when the sales target is reached, the company held a lottery among the employees, and a production of immigrant workers in Sunnyvale, California won $ 1000 per month for 20 years (U.S. $ 240,000).
He also pushed the company in difficult times. In 1974, when a severe recession occurred almost made the company go bankrupt, but a sales contract with one of its distributors to save the company. Although many tough recession he refused to dismiss the workers. Instead of cutting the number of employees, he asked the workers to work on Saturday to produce more and produce new products more quickly. In 1982, he secured a licensing agreement with Intel which makes AMD a second source for IBM to Intel microprocessors series, a deal that ultimately makes the company the only real competitor to Intel. In 2000, Sanders took Héctor Ruiz, who at the time was president of the production sector at Motorola, to serve as president and CEO of AMD, and a successor to lead the company at the time of retirement Sander. Ruiz replace Sanders as CEO in 2002.The battle between AMD and Intel is in a lot of areas, the most striking is in the class of Z-80 (AMD) is a milestone that will be entered Pentium generation. At that time, AMD is tergpgoh hurrying with the launch of Intel processors on a 486 is 586. If from the AMD Z-80 was designed by Federico Faggin, who claimed that he made the processor is superior and has two simple reasons, namely price and performance, when compared to Intel's 586. But the processors are owned by Intel (586), the brainchild of Vinod. AMD announced a merger with ATI Technologies on July 24, 2006. AMD paid $ 4300000000 in cash and 58 million shares of stock for a total of U.S. $ 5.4 billion. Merger was completed on October 25, 2006 and ATI is now part of AMD
It was reported in December 2006 that AMD, along with its main rival in the graphics industry Nvidia, received subpoenas from the Justice Department about possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry, including the act of fixing prices. In October 2008, AMD announced plans to spin off manufacturing operations in the form of a multibillion-dollar joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment Co., an investment company formed by the government of Abu Dhabi. The new venture is called GlobalFoundries Inc.. This will allow AMD to focus solely on chip design.During the AMD processor is also known to be cheaper, and it is also frequently used to further reap the AMD market. Proved to be successful for AMD's success to several Asian markets. Apparently it makes Intel's "helm", so he then poised to make a processor with low prices but has a high speed, even though the quality is not as good as it had first appeared.
Some of microprocessors products :
- Turion 64
- Duron
- Sempron
- Kryptonite (K5)
- NexGen (K6/K6 MMX/K6-2/K6-3)
- Athlon (K7)
- Opteron (AMD64/K8)
- Athlon64 (K8L)
- Phenom (K10)
