Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

AMD
     
        1.  {Advanced Micro Devices}.
     
        2.  According to Don Olivier
        , his system manager came in to work one
        morningn to find his IBM system down with a message on the
        console that said "AMD failure".  After he and the service rep
        had puzzled over documentation for an hour or so they called
        headquarters and eventually learned that it the failure was in
        the cooling system: an AMD is an "air movement device", IBM
        for "fan".
     
        (1995-01-16)