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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- March 15, 2006 -- “You can’t have competitiveness without competition,” said AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz in a speech this morning on Capitol Hill as part of the Congressional Internet Caucus Speakers Series.
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Full View / NID: 9787 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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Hanover/Munich -- March 10, 2006 --At CeBIT, AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Continental AG unveiled Continental’s deployment of AMD64 technology-based servers, workstations and desktop systems from HP*.
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Full View / NID: 9731 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- March 7, 2006 --Today AMD (NYSE: AMD) and Logic Product Development announced the availability of the AMD Geode™ LX ETX Reference Design Kit (RDK). This low-power, high-performance system-on-module (SOM) is designed to help developers quickly and efficiently bring the next generation of small, embedded and industrial computing products to market. Featuring a design adaptable to many solutions, the new AMD Geode LX ETX RDK supports a wide range of embedded device types such as kiosks, information appliances, medical or industrial applications, point-of-sale terminals, corporate thin clients and embedded controllers.
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Full View / NID: 9702 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- March 6, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the appointment of Bruce Gieseke to the position of Corporate Fellow, the highest technical recognition at AMD.
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Full View / NID: 9659 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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Sunnyvale, Calif. -- March 6, 2006 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family that lead the industry in x86 performance and performance-per-watt capabilities. The new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors help minimize overall server power consumption and cooling requirements.
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Full View / NID: 9658 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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BEIJING -- March 6, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that it supports a new initiative launched jointly by China’s three most influential IT industry associations designed to ensure fair competition in government IT procurement. The Initiative for No Pre-specified Brand in Computer Tendering was jointly announced in Beijing by the China Computer Users Association (CCUA), the China Computer Federation (CCF), and the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA).
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Full View / NID: 9657 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- March 1, 2006 --President George W. Bush has appointed AMD (NYSE: AMD) chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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Full View / NID: 9603 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- February 27, 2006 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that AMD Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Hector de J. Ruiz will present at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference at 8:45 a.m. PT (11:45 a.m. ET) on Monday, March 6, 2006 in Dana Point, California. Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed during the presentation.
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Full View / NID: 9567 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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Sunnyvale, Calif. -- February 23, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its AMD64 technology is now available in a new line of professional desktop PCs from Lenovo, marking the first time that this pairing will be available worldwide. The Lenovo 3000 J105 desktop, with a choice of AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD Sempron™ processors, offers leading-edge performance to small and mid-sized businesses, and is expected to be available broadly in various international markets, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
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Full View / NID: 9566 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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At the 48th annual Grammy® Awards ceremony in Los Angeles last week, AMD64 Masters Group member Chuck Ainlay, AMD64 Premier Artist Mark Knopfler and mastering guru Bob Ludwig took home the Grammy for “Best Surround Sound Album” for their 5.1 surround sound re-mix and mastering of the Dire Straits classic album, Brothers In Arms - 20th Anniversary Edition.
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Full View / NID: 9441 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the three winners in “The 64 Second Film Contest,” a test of creativity and digital media development skill sponsored by AMD. The contest challenged contestants to express the concept of “Waitlessness” in a 64-second short film to help showcase how AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processors “shatter the hourglass,” by taking content creation and multimedia performance to a new level. Today’s digital content creators are using AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors to create more, while spending less time waiting for their computers to render videos and perform other multimedia tasks.
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Full View / NID: 9400 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) released the following statement today regarding the Korean Fair Trade Commission’s (KFTC) dawn raids as part of their investigation into possible violations by Intel Corporation of that country’s Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act.
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Full View / NID: 9386 / Submitted by: Megan
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Innovation and competition are vital to U.S. competitiveness in the 21st century, said AMD (NYSE: AMD) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Government Reform today.
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Full View / NID: 9385 / Submitted by: Megan
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The inclusion of brand-name specifications in federal computer hardware procurement lead to harmful consequences that needlessly cost U.S. taxpayers up to $563 million, according to a new economic study by R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management at the California Institute of Technology. The study, Improving Federal Procurement: The Benefits of Vendor-Neutral Contract Specifications, was commissioned by AMD (NYSE: AMD).
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Full View / NID: 9353 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced the broad availability of its I/O virtualization technology specification. Demonstrating continued leadership in evolving the industry-standard x86 processor architecture, AMD is making this technology available through royalty-free licenses that are designed to encourage its widespread adoption by hardware and software developers. By defining a set of technologies that can be directly built into a computer’s I/O bridges, AMD’s I/O virtualization technology is designed to extend the benefits of CPU-assisted virtualization by addressing the performance bottlenecks and security issues that can be encountered when virtualizing I/O devices in x86-based servers, desktops, and notebook computers.
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Full View / NID: 9339 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) (Nasdaq: HPQ) today announced that they have generated more than $2 million to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) through sales of the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC, powered by AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology. Thanks to the tremendous success of this initiative, availability of this one-of-a-kind notebook will be extended through June 2006.
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Full View / NID: 9249 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it is offering 14,096,000 shares of its common stock at $35.20 per share. The offering is scheduled to close on Friday, January 27, 2006 and is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. AMD has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase an additional 2,114,400 shares of common stock to cover overallotments, if any.
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Full View / NID: 9212 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today welcomed three new participants - Supermicro Computer, Inc., Tyan Computer Corporation and Uniwide Technologies, Inc. - to its Validated Server Program (VSP), broadening the program’s reach in North America and Europe and into new geographical regions. AMD’s VSP is designed to connect solution providers with VSP participants to obtain qualified, reliable, stable and well-supported server solutions based on single- and Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors with the industry’s best performance-per-watt. The three new participants are expected to introduce new platforms to be sold under the VSP banner later this quarter in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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Full View / NID: 9204 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it intends to offer an aggregate of approximately $500 million of its common stock. AMD also intends to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase an additional aggregate of approximately $75 million of its common stock to cover overallotments, if any.
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Full View / NID: 9205 / Submitted by: Megan
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Dirk Meyer has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of AMD. Meyer previously served as president and chief operating officer of AMD’s Microprocessor Solutions Sector (MSS) business. He will share the leadership and management of AMD with Hector Ruiz, who relinquishes the president title and now is AMD chief executive officer and chairman of the board. Ruiz will continue to be fully engaged in his role as chief executive officer and chairman of the board.
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Full View / NID: 9198 / Submitted by: Megan
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