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Advanced Micro Devices

Information Technology

25

out of 100. Number 451 of 512, counting from the worst.

  • Arbitration 0 of 20, good
  • Renewals 0 of 20, good
  • Data sharing 7 of 20
  • Price & terms 8 of 15
  • Data retention 2 of 15, good
  • Other findings 8 of 10, bad

Where Advanced Micro Devices does well

  • Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
  • Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
  • Data retention 2 of 15. Few problems found.
  • No forced arbitration or class-action waiver was found in either the website Terms of Use or the AMD Software EULA — disputes fall under California law, unlike most consumer tech terms.
  • The AMD User Experience Program is genuinely opt-in ('Participating in AMD's User Experience Program allows you to share information'), and system/telemetry collection is described as done 'with your consent to the extent legally required,' with AMD attempting to strip personal identifiers from telemetry before analysis.
  • The privacy archive states service providers may use personal information 'only to provide the services to you and us,' and no clause authorizes outright sale of personal data.

Any idea or suggestion you send AMD about its software can be used, licensed, and sold by AMD forever, anywhere in the world, with no payment or compensation to you.

The fine print

6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.

  1. Any idea or suggestion you send AMD about its software can be used, licensed, and sold by AMD forever, anywhere in the world, with no payment or compensation to you.

    For any Feedback You provide to AMD, You grant AMD and its affiliates and subsidiaries a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual license to, directly or indirectly, use, reproduce, license, sublicense, distribute, make, have made, sell and otherwise commercialize the Feedback in the Software, Documentation, or other AMD products, software and technologies.

    AMD Software End User License Agreement, Section 4 (Feedback)

  2. AMD can rewrite its website terms whenever it wants without telling you, and the new rules take effect the moment they are posted — just by continuing to visit the site you 'accept' them.

    AMD may add to, change or remove any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use at any time, without notice. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use or any terms posted on this Site apply as soon as they are posted.

    AMD Terms of Use / Copyright

  3. No matter what damage AMD's software causes you — even data loss from its own overclocking tools — the most you can ever recover from them is one hundred dollars.

    In no event shall AMD's total liability to You for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) exceed the amount of $100 USD.

    AMD Software End User License Agreement, Section 7 (Limitation of Liability)

  4. Anything you send AMD through its website — bug reports, ideas, files — is treated as free for AMD to use, and they can turn your ideas into products without paying you a cent.

    Any material, information, message or other communication you transmit or post to this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary ("Communications"). ... AMD is free to use, without any compensation to you, any concepts, ideas, know-how or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

    AMD Terms of Use / Copyright

  5. You have only one year to bring any claim about AMD's website — a much shorter deadline than the multi-year statutes of limitation most states otherwise allow.

    Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this Site must be commenced within (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises.

    AMD Terms of Use / Copyright, General Terms

  6. AMD can feed your personal information into AI model training whenever it deems the law allows it — no opt-in required, only an opt-out where the law forces one.

    In some cases, and where permitted by applicable law, we may use Personal Information to train or enhance AI models that support product development, personalization and security.

    AMD Privacy Policy (Use of Data for Innovation and AI Development)

How these were found

Based on live reads on Oct 1, 2026: Terms of Use / Copyright page (no revision date displayed), current Privacy Policy at amd.com/en/legal/privacy.html, AMD Software EULA at amd.com/en/legal/eula/amd-software-eula.html (includes Adrenalin supplemental terms), Vitis Unified EULA 2026.04.09 PDF, and the AMD Privacy Policy Archive dated Feb 14, 2022 (used only for the disclosure-of-information language). One PDF fetch (amd-sync-eula.pdf) timed out and was not retried per the timeout constraint, so AMD's Sync product EULA was not reviewed. AMD is a chipmaker with thin consumer terms — website plus driver/software EULAs — so there are no subscriptions, auto-renewals, or arbitration clauses to score; AMD Arena/rewards program terms and the AMD User Experience detail page were not separately reviewed. No mirrors were needed; all documents read directly from amd.com and download.amd.com.

These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.