AMD Markham’s Spirit of Innovation and COVID-19 Response

Powered by the spirit and talent of a workforce equaling more than 2,300, AMD Markham is committed to the design and development of leading-edge semiconductors. AMD’s talented engineers have expertise in GPU programming and machine learning algorithms, and is proud to empower the future workforce through integrated work and learning placements to help drive an innovative technology culture.

AMD Markham’s continued innovation is recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders (2019), Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2020), Greater Toronto’s Top Employers (2020), and Forbes Canada’s Best Employers (2020).

Working diligently to navigate the uncertainty of COVID-19 and to do its part to combat the pandemic, AMD established a COVID-19 HPC fund to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. AMD is contributing technology and technical resources, including AMD Radeon™ Instinct MI50 accelerators, designed at AMD Markham, and support resources for the “Corona” system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, providing additional computing power for molecular modeling in support of COVID-19 research.

Additionally, AMD Markham delivered COVID-19 relief response with a $67,000 cash contribution to the Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation along with tens of thousands of N95 masks to that hospital. AMD Markham gives back by way of its charity employee matching program benefiting Canadian Red Cross and Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care. And to showcase AMD Markham’s commitment to our community, one resourceful employee led a group of volunteers to raise more than $20,000 to purchase more than 20,000 vitally needed medical and surgical masks for a local hospital's frontline health-care workers.

More at www.amd.com, www.amd.com/en/corporate/amd-covid-19-response