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SAN FRANCISCO — June 23, 2010 — At the GigaOm Structure Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure conference, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of the new AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series platform. This is the first server platform designed from the beginning to meet the specific requirements of cloud, hyperscale data center, and SMB customers needing highly flexible, reliable, and power-efficient 1 and 2P systems. This platform is also available for high-end embedded systems such as telecom servers, storage, and digital signage, through AMD Embedded Solutions. Systems from Acer Group, Dell, HP, SGI, Supermicro, ZT Systems, and numerous other channel partners are expected beginning today and in the coming months.

“Until now, customers wanting to build a dense and power-efficient cloud or hyperscale data center had to shoehorn expensive, higher-end solutions into their computing environment, or they had to choose low-power client-based designs that may not have offered the right level of performance and server functionality,” said Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Division, AMD. “With the AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform, these customers now have a server platform that is extremely power- and cost-efficient, allows a high degree of customization, and is also an ideal solution for high-end embedded systems.”

· Power remains the number one concern in the data center². The AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform offers four- and six-core performance at less than 6W per core¹, reduces power up to 24% over the previous generation³, and allows more than double the servers within the same power budget as previous generation platforms³.

· The current business climate means many customers must look closely at capital expenditures and re-evaluate IT budgets. In addition to on-going savings associated with ultra power-efficient platforms, the AMD Opteron 4100 Series processor offers price points as low as $99 and is a no-compromise, trusted server-class processor with full feature sets.

· The AMD Opteron 4100 Series processor is ideal for custom-designed servers because it allows for smaller heat sinks, power supplies, and fans, as well as low voltage memory to help improve power efficiency. Depending on how the system will be used, customization also allows unnecessary, power-consuming features to be eliminated, further driving cost and power efficiency.

· This platform is available with embedded industry-standard 5+2 years longevity and provides the power, price, and performance balance required for high-end, commercial-class embedded systems with specific target markets and long product life cycles.

· While highly flexible, the AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform is chipset-consistent with the 8- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform and is planned to support the new “Bulldozer” core, planned for 2011.

Customer and Partner Perspectives

• Acer Group

• SGI
• Samsung
• Supermicro
• ZT Systems

Supporting Resources

• AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform press kit

• Press Presentation
• AMD@Work blog
• The AMD Embedded Solutions blog on AMD@Work
• AMD Opteron YouTube playlist
• AMD Unprocessed Flickr stream

About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home and play. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22nd, 2010 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced global customer support from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, and Toshiba as they plan to release new notebooks for back-to-school and holiday cycles based on VISION Technology from AMD. With new designs and more than 130 new consumer and commercial notebooks and desktops, consumers have a choice of PCs that deliver a powerful visual experience.

VISION Technology from AMD simplifies the PC buying process by embracing the contemporary ways in which consumers use PCs, rather than relying upon often confusing technical specifications. By combining powerful visual processing technologies, VISION Technology from AMD is ready to help consumers use their computers to enjoy high definition video entertainment, edit and share photos and video with friends, or collaborate and communicate online.

“We’re answering the call from consumers to make it easier for them to select a computer that meets their needs and reflects their personality” said Leslie Sobon, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing at AMD. “Consumers who are looking for a great visual experience now can match their needs with a new PC from Acer, Dell, HP, Sony, and Toshiba featuring VISION technology.”

Availability

Ranging from mainstream or ultrathin notebooks, interactive multi-touch laptops, and high-end gaming PC, consumers can research a computer that matches their individual requirements. From there, consumers can purchase a new PC based on VISION Technology matched to their needs.

Additional Resources:

1) AMD Demonstrates the World’s First APU at Computex 2010

2) AMD VISION Launch Webcast

3) AMD VISION Technology

4) AMD CMO Nigel Dessau Blog

5) AMD at Cannes International Film Festival

6) AMD Cannes film about VISION Technology

7) AMD 2010 Desktop Platforms

8) AMD 2010 Mainstream Notebook Platform for Home and Work

9) AMD 2010 Ultrathin Notebook Platform for Home and Work

10) Follow AMD on Twitter at @AMD_Unprocessed, @AMDDesktop, and @AMDNotebook

– AMD Fusion technology preview offers glimpse into a sleeker, cooler, more vivid future for the computing experience; CPU and GPU on a single chip –

– AMD extends leadership with new desktops and notebooks powered by VISION technology –

TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 2, 2010 — At Computex 2010, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today delivered the first public demonstration of an AMD Fusion processor, initiating the accelerated processing era. The AMD FusionTM Family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represents a significant shift in processor architecture and capabilities, combining high-performance serial computing and parallel graphics processing cores onto a single die to improve visual and data-intensive tasks that are pervasive in today’s computing environments. A video of today’s demonstration can be found here.

Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Products Group, provided an APU technology demonstration during a press conference today. This demonstration provided a sneak peek into the upcoming seismic shift in the computing industry: power-efficient processors that combine CPU, GPU, video processing and other accelerator capabilities in a single-die design to efficiently power the most popular and demanding consumer experiences, from HD video applications to media-rich Internet experiences to DirectX® 11 games.

The AMD Fusion Family of APUs represent a distinctly powerful processing approach to the evolving digital consumer landscape, where more than 28 billion videos are watched each month online and a thousand pictures are uploaded to social networking sites every second.

“Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. “This explosion in multimedia requires new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data. Low resolution video needs to be up-scaled for larger screens, HD video must be shrunk for smart phones, and home movies need to be stabilized and cleaned up for more enjoyable viewing. When AMD formally launches the AMD Fusion family of APUs, scheduled for the first half of in 2011, we expect the PC experience to evolve dramatically.”

Software Development

Consumers are hungry for applications that run faster and make digital media easier to enjoy, and a new wave of software innovation is taking place as AMD software partners take advantage of AMD APUs and GPUs to enable better experiences across an ever-widening set of content. Microsoft joined AMD on stage at Computex and discussed how AMD Fusion APUs can enable improvements to applications such as Microsoft® Windows® 7 and DirectX® 11, and how CPU and GPU collaborative computing can enable superior PC experiences.

“While visual computing has made incredible strides in recent years, we believe that the AMD Fusion family of APUs combined with Windows 7 and DirectX 11 will fundamentally change how applications are developed and used,” said Steven Guggenheimer, corporate vice president, original equipment manufacturer division, Microsoft. “Applications such as Internet browsing, watching HD video, PowerPoint and more can enable more immersive, visually rich, and intuitive experiences for consumers worldwide.”

In addition to Microsoft DirectX with DirectCompute, software developers can also build enhanced applications using OpenCL via the ATI Stream SDK, which further underscores AMD’s commitment to industry standards.

AMD Fusion Fund

At Computex 2010, AMD also unveiled the “AMD Fusion Fund,” a vehicle to make strategic investments in companies developing innovative solutions that will take advantage of the forthcoming AMD Fusion family of APUs. Additional details were disclosed on the AMD Fusion Fund in a separate announcement.

Extending Consumer and Graphics Leadership at Computex

With the launch of the AMD Fusion Family of APUs planned for the first half of 2011, AMD is positioned to extend the leadership it already has in the consumer PC market with VISION Technology from AMD and in the graphics market with the award winning ATI RadeonTM family of GPUs. At Computex, both product lines were on display for attendees, including many of the brand new VISION-powered SKUs recently launched by OEMs. In May, AMD announced a significant platform refresh for its VISION Technology, with as many as 135 new ultrathin and mainstream notebooks arriving on the market.

Additional Resources

• AMD Computex Press Kit
• AMD Fusion Blog Post
• AMD Fusion Fund Blog Post
• Watch the AMD Fusion APU Demo at Computex
• Software partner testimonials (Adobe, ArcSoft, Corel, Cyberlink, Microsoft)
• Learn more about AMD Fusion
• Become a fan on Facebook

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — May 31, 2010 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) continues to hold the reigning spot on the TOP500 Supercomputer list announced today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Jaguar, the world’s highest performing system, is a massive, 1.75 petaflop Cray XT5™ supercomputer based on the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor and features almost a quarter of a million cores. Additional Top 10 systems based on AMD technology are:

• #3: Roadrunner, a hybrid system from IBM using AMD Opteron processors in conjunction with IBM Cell technology located at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• #4: Kraken, a Cray XT5 system at the University of Tennessee
• #7: Tianhe-1, a hybrid system using ATI Radeon™ graphics processors at the National SuperComputer Center in China

Forty-seven additional AMD systems are in the TOP500 from OEMs including Appro, ClusterVision, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Koi Computers, Penguin Computing, and Sun.

“Our customers are selecting AMD platforms for supercomputing because they provide the cores, the memory, the power savings and clearly the performance that the world’s leading research institutions require for their ground-breaking work,” said John Fruehe, director, Server and Embedded product marketing at AMD. “AMD has been a leader in delivering the benefits of x86 and open source computing to the HPC community and it will be exciting to see what further advances the AMD Fusion™ family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) will bring.”

Key Facts

• The number of AMD technology-based Supercomputers on the TOP500 now stands at 51, a rise since November 2009.
• AMD technology helps drive more than 4.2 Petaflops of computing power on the TOP10 alone.
• Cray recently announced numerous new contracts for its next-generation Cray XE6™ supercomputer to be based on AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors with the ability to scale to more than 1 million cores.
• In addition to universities and national labs, AMD also powers world-class supercomputing resources in the enterprise, including engineering, finance and IT service.

• AMD-based systems provide leading supercomputing resources across the globe including in the United States, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and Finland.

Supporting Resources

• Jaguar and Kraken videos on the AMD Opteron YouTube channel
• Visit AMD on Facebook
• AMD Unprocessed Flickr stream
• Follow AMD on Twitter @AMDOpteron
• AMD@Work blog

Cannes, France. – May 25, 2010

What: AMD (NYSE:AMD) showcased the arrival of new Notebook and Desktop computers featuring VISION Technology from AMD at an event on the Cote D’Azur. Introduced in September 2009, VISION Technology from AMD helps simplify the PC buying experience by replacing confusing technical specifications with simple descriptions of the experience the computer can deliver. VISION also signifies the strong visual performance that VISION-based computers deliver—ideal for enjoying numerous forms of entertainment on the PC, from watching movies to playing games to editing photos.

VISION Video Competition: AMD hosted 70 members of the European media in Cannes last week and encouraged first-hand interaction with AMD’s newest products in a video-editing master class and film creation competition. Groups were armed with a camcorder, given a theme – (eight themes – ‘luxury’, ‘style’, ‘fun’, ‘water’, ‘taste’, ‘entertainment’, ‘contrasts’ and ‘lights’) and taken through a hands-on product tutorial on the new AMD products around the ‘VISION Experience’. After receiving their video theme, the journalists participated in a master class, in which the groups learnt the fine art of video editing using Cyberlink editing software on VISION desktop PCs.

There was a tensely fought competition among the various media groups to create an award-winning short film. Ultimately, the judging panel, which comprised Miki Manojlovic and representatives from HP, Toshiba and Dell, recognised the ‘Contrasts’ team as the winner.

Why: Consumers are increasingly turning to their computers as entertainment devices: sharing photos and videos with friends through social networking sites, downloading their favorite TV shows through HD entertainment sites and using it to edit family photos and videos. VISION-based PCs are optimized for video, digital media and content creation activities. Cannes and the Cannes Film Festival provide a compelling environment in which to demonstrate AMD’s technology leadership in graphics and visual experiences with VISION Technology from AMD.

Who: AMD vice president and CMO, Nigel Dessau, and Alberto Bozzo, AMD corporate vice president, EMEA, were joined in Cannes by key business partners, customers and the world media to showcase the systems featuring VISION Technology from AMD. In addition, AMD has unveiled a ‘short film’ in celebration of VISION Technology from AMD, starring Miki Manojlovic, world-renowned actor who has starred in two previous Palme D’Or winning films.

Resources:

http://www.amd.com/cannes

http://links.amd.com/VisionCast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kiHxQXT0s