AMD
From Gentoo Wiki
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a semiconductor company. AMD is best known for producing CPUs based on x86 intruction set, motherboard chipsets and their own line of GPUs. Later AMD created amd64, which is the 64-bit equivalent instruction set of the x86.
Available software and articles
From Gentoo standpoint this wiki covers the following AMD related articles among others:
Graphics drivers
- ATI FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to help users avoid some common installation and configuration issues related to DRI and X11 for AMD/ATI boards.
- Radeon — a family of open source graphics drivers for older AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards.
- AMDGPU — the open source graphics drivers for AMD Radeon and other GPUs.
- AMDGPU-PRO — the next generation closed source graphics component that operates on top of the open source AMDGPU drivers for newer AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards.
CPUs
- Ryzen — a multithreaded, high performance processor manufactured by AMD.
- AMD microcode — describes updating the microcode for AMD processors.