AMD Works with Leading Developers to Drive High Performance DirectX® 10.1 Gaming

AMD Works with Leading Developers to Drive High Performance DirectX® 10.1 Gaming
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that leading game developers are working with AMD to create a new generation of game titles utilizing Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 to deliver improved features and performance, and an overall better game experience. Developers including Electronic Arts Phenomic Studio and its forthcoming fantasy online real-time strategy game Battleforge™, SEGA and its futuristic military real-time strategy game Stormrise, and NHN Games and its 3D role-playing game Cloud 9, all exploit DirectX 10.1 for advanced gaming performance and visual realism. Only AMD graphics offer top-to-bottom DirectX 10.1 support: the ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series and the new ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series.

AMD Releases FireMV™ 2260 Graphics Accelerator

AMD Releases FireMV™ 2260 Graphics Accelerator
New FireMV 2260 multi-view 2D graphics card delivers optimal visual computing for financial and corporate environments.
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AMD Helps Maximize "Trader Density" in Financial Institutions
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it is improving the visual experience for financial traders while simultaneously helping to reduce power consumption needs for some of the world’s largest financial institutions. The new ATI FireMV™ 2260 2D workstation and desktop accelerator card enhances "trader density" in financial institutions, where IT managers seek to maximize productivity in every bit of workspace, overcrowded with people and hardware, while improving power consumption and cooling needs.

AMD Expands The Ultimate Visual Experience™ Combining Exceptional HD Graphics, HDTV, and HD Video for PCs

AMD Expands The Ultimate Visual Experience™ Combining Exceptional HD Graphics, HDTV, and HD Video for PCs
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today expanded The Ultimate Visual Experience™ for North America with the ATI All-In-Wonder™ HD, combining award-winning ATI Radeon™ Premium graphics and ATI TV Wonder™ HD tuner technology card in one PCI Express® 2.0 solution. As the newest multimedia powerhouse to join the long line of All-In-Wonder offerings, ATI All-in-Wonder HD transforms the PC into a highly immersive digital video recorder for HDTV1 and analog TV, plus expands the realm of exceptional gaming with cinematic HD graphics for mainstream PCs. Blu-ray™ disc playback can be enjoyed in full HD glory (1080p) thanks to ATI All-in-Wonder HD’s unified video decoder (UVD) technology, ensuring movies play back smoothly and with incredible detail2.

AMD Delivers Three New AMD Phenom™ X3 8000 Series Processors

AMD Delivers Three New AMD Phenom™ X3 8000 Series Processors
AMD announces the availability of the desktop platform, formerly codenamed “Cartwheel,” and the addition of three new AMD Phenom™ X3 8000 series triple-core processors for the Ultimate Visual Experience™. This announcement is followed by availability of the industry’s most complete and compelling line-up of multi-core desktop processing solutions.

AMD at Computex Taipei
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AMD Displays Technology Leadership with New AMD Xilleon™ Panel Processors for Outstanding LCD TV Image Quality

AMD Displays Technology Leadership with New AMD Xilleon™ Panel Processors for Outstanding LCD TV Image Quality
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — January 7, 2008 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled a new family of AMD Xilleon™ panel processors designed to provide unrivaled visual quality in liquid crystal display (LCD) digital TVs. AMD’s new panel processors deliver advanced motion compensation and frame rate conversion technology for excellent image processing, resulting in a rich, immersive entertainment experience.

AMD: On the road to CES
Scott Carroll from AMD shows a one laptop per child to tech crews on the Podtech Bloghaus bus.

AMD and TopCoder Host a Series of Competitions to Advance Multi-Threaded Software Development

AMD and TopCoder Host a Series of Competitions to Advance Multi-Threaded Software Development
Beginning March 12, "Multicore Threadfest" Offers $20,000 Prize Purse and Recognition through Innovation

AMD Announces Growing Support for its Next-Generation Notebook Platform with Eight New HP Notebooks

AMD Announces Growing Support for its Next-Generation Notebook Platform with Eight New HP Notebooks
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced growing OEM support for its next-generation notebook platform with the HP introduction of four consumer and four commercial AMD Business Class technology-based notebook PCs. These HP notebooks feature new AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors with ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series Graphics for superior 3D performance and HD1 image quality with leading-edge wireless solutions based on draft 802.11n.

AMD Delivers HDTV Experience for Mac®

AMD Delivers HDTV Experience for Mac®
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 14, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the new ATI TV Wonder™ 650 Combo USB for Mac® – a new HDTV experience for Mac users. ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB for Mac integrates two TV tuners to receive off-the-air ATSC/HDTV broadcasts as well as analog television programming. This new TV tuner solution joins AMD’s six TV Wonder™ offerings for the PC platform.

AMD and TopCoder Host a Series of Competitions to Advance Multi-Threaded Software Development
Beginning March 12, "Multicore Threadfest" Offers $20,000 Prize Purse and Recognition through Innovation

AMD Licenses 3D Graphics Core Technology to QUALCOMM, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience™ to Tomorrow’s Phones

AMD Licenses 3D Graphics Core Technology to QUALCOMM, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience™ to Tomorrow’s Phones
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — October 2, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an agreement to license cutting-edge graphics core technology to QUALCOMM Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, for next-generation chipsets. This intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement is part of each company’s ongoing commitment to drive a strong mobile gaming ecosystem and unleash state-of-the-art graphics across a range of handheld devices to delight mobile consumers everywhere.

AMD Reports First Quarter Results
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 17, 2008 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today reported first quarter 2008 revenue of $1.505 billion, a net loss of $358 million, or $0.59 per share, and an operating loss of $264 million. These results include an impact of $50 million, or $0.08 per share, from ATI acquisition-related charges. First quarter revenue decreased 15 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2007 and increased 22 percent compared to the first quarter of 2007. In the fourth quarter of 2007, AMD reported revenue of $1.770 billion, a net loss of $1.772 billion, and an operating loss of $1.678 billion. In the first quarter of 2007, AMD reported revenue of $1.233 billion, a net loss $611 million, and an operating loss of $504 million.

AMD Previews CES 2008

AMD Previews CES 2008
As a preview to the International Consumer Electronics Show, AMD offers a glimpse of CES and first-hand accounts of what consumers want in a computer purchase.

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