As AMD Markham, the location stayed focused on making fabulous GPUs while AMD management wrestled with the best way to maximize their investment in the graphics group. The ATI team, an incredibly diverse group of Canadians that had grown the company from nothing, was tough and had weathered decades of recessions, found and lost business, and fought competitors twice its size.
Today, AMD Markham is an integral part of the AMD whole. The staff of the Markham offices is populated almost entirely by engineers and technical staff and the group works on all the AMD products, including hardware and software.
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