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The breakdown on its Regional Student Programs page:

• United States: 12-week Summer Internship (starts May/June), 14-week Spring Internship (starts January), 13-week Fall Internship (starts September), plus 28-week Co-Op programs in Spring/Summer and Summer/Fall.
• Canada: Short-Term Internship/Co-op of 4 or 8 months in winter, summer or fall, and a Long-Term Internship/Co-op of 12 or 16 months starting May.
• United Kingdom: 3-month summer internships in Edinburgh and Cambridge, and a 14-month Industry Placement in Belfast starting July.
• Ireland: a 3-month summer internship from June and an 8-month Industry Placement from January.
• Singapore: a 5-6 month January Internship and a 6-7 month May/July Internship.
• India: a Phase 1 internship of 10 months to one year (July/August start) and a Phase 2 of 6 months (January start).
• Romania: a 3-month summer internship from July.

A student tracking AMD across regions is choosing among durations that span 12 weeks to 16 months: the long industry placements demand a year out from study and a different season of preparation than the summer programs sitting alongside them.

In Singapore the firm additionally requires a school support or placement letter covering the full internship period.

The page makes no offer to obtain visa status for an intern; the right to work in the geography sits with the candidate. That narrows AMD's student programs to candidates whose existing study visa already permits paid work in that country (CPT or OPT for US F-1 students, the Student Route in the UK, equivalents elsewhere), and international students without that authorisation must filter regions accordingly before applying.

AMD's portfolio sits in three franchises that few peers carry together:

• A CPU and GPU business that competes head-on with Intel and NVIDIA across datacenter, client and gaming silicon.
• An FPGA and adaptive-SoC business acquired with Xilinx in February 2022 in a $48.8 billion all-stock deal, now run as the Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group.
• An AI accelerator line, the Instinct MI300 and MI350 series, which produced AMD's first MLPerf Training submission in 2025.

For an early-career applicant, that breadth shows up directly in the student-programs catalogue: silicon design and packaging on the CPU/GPU side, FPGA and adaptive-SoC work inherited from Xilinx, and software roles around the ROCm AI stack on Instinct. Choosing AMD over an Intel- or NVIDIA-shaped early career is a decision about working across all three rather than committing to one.