# Jerry Sanders American semiconductor executive who left [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]] to found [[wiki/AMD|AMD]] (Advanced Micro Devices) in 1969. Sanders is one of the [[wiki/Fairchildren|Fairchildren]], extending the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] genealogy through the Shockley-Fairchild lineage into the modern processor industry. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].