Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is an American chip developer headquartered in Santa Clara, California. AMD develops and produces microprocessors, chipsets, graphics chips and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the computer, communication and consumer industries. AMD has been fabless since the actual semiconductor production was spun off in Globalfoundries in 2009. The company has been listed in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index since March 20, 2017, has around 9,700 employees worldwide and is the world's second largest x86 processor manufacturer after Intel (as of 2011). The company's shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 1979 to 2014, and have been listed on NASDAQ since January 2, 2015.