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Urbana, IL -- March 11, 2004 --University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Wen-mei Hwu will be invested as the first W.J. "Jerry" Sanders III - Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at a ceremony today at 4:00 p.m. in the Beckman Institute on campus. An endowed chair is the highest honor bestowed on university faculty.
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF -- March 11, 2004 --AMD today announced it has provided industry-leading AMD64 computing technology to the Blue Team, led by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley’s industrial engineering program. The Blue Team is one of 20 final participant teams that will be competing for a $1 million dollar prize in the Grand Challenge, a 250-mile off-road race of fully self-navigating vehicles, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA) and designed to further the development of autonomous vehicle technology for the Department of Defense.
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Melbourne, Australia -- March 7, 2004 --The AMD (NYSE:AMD) supported Ferrari Formula One team scored an incredible one-two victory with six-time World Champion Michael Schumacher clocking his 71st win in Melbourne, Australia. Teammate Rubens Barrichello came in second to complete a total domination in the first race of the 2004 season.
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- February 25, 2004 --AMD (AMD: NYSE) announced today that AMD64 processors combined with the upcoming Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will help computers to better withstand attacks from certain classes of viruses and worms. The combination of the AMD64 processor and Windows XP SP2 technologies will help provide customers enhanced security allowing home and business users to experience safer e-mail and Internet browsing, and increased network and memory protection.
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Sunnyvale, CA -- February 17, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an expansion of its awarding-winning AMD Opteron™ processor family, featuring low- and mid-power products. With the new low-power AMD Opteron processors, enterprise customers can now employ a common infrastructure based on AMD64 technology at all levels of their enterprise environments — from high-performance clusters to blade servers.
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AMD PowerNow! Technology allows the system to dynamically and automatically select CPU speed, Voltage and Power combination that match the instantaneous user performance need. These changes can happen as often as 30 times per second.
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- January 22, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a technology sponsorship agreement with Lance Armstrong and the United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. The agreement, which runs through 2004, creates a unique technical relationship between AMD, a leading global technology company, and the premier team in international cycling, led by five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.
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Sunnyvale, CA -- January 21, 2004 --AMD announced today that weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel® and the leading source of online weather information, has successfully completed the migration of its 32-bit database applications to AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers from IBM. IBM’s eServer 325 running Oracle 8i has delivered a performance boost for weather.com as well as providing a seamless transition from the previous server platform.
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- January 20, 2004 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported sales of $1.206 billion and net income of $43 million for the quarter ended December 28, 2003. Net income amounted to $0.12 per share.
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Sunnyvale, CA -- January 19, 2004 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that DaimlerChrysler AG has implemented its new AMD Opteron™ processor-based cluster in the Mercedes-Benz Technology Center (MTC) in Germany. Based on AMD64 technology, the new cluster is the second AMD processor-based cluster installed by DaimlerChrysler in the last three years.
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Advanced Micro Devices has quietly trotted out a version of its Athlon 64 chip that provides a little less performance than earlier models but only costs about half as much.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD Alchemy™ Au1500™ processor has been selected by Bandspeed, Inc. to power its 940K Series Gypsy Wireless Access Point Switch. Bandspeed provides Wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that deliver standards-based, ultra-high performance access points for users in environments such as enterprises, campuses, hot spots, and wireless service provider networks. Bandspeed is already experiencing increasing levels of global customer interest, most recently with the customer announcement of United Platform Technologies (China) Ltd. (UP Tech). UP Tech plans to use the Gypsy wireless LAN technology to build wireless switch access points (AP) for boxes for major carriers in China.
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) has announced a price cut on it processor line.
However, the 64-bit chips released in September will retain the same prices.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- October 27, 2003 -- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD Solution Provider Program at the CMP XChange Tech Innovator 2003 show, where U.S. and Canadian system builders, system integrators and value added resellers (VARs) are meeting with AMD to discuss creative ways to address customer needs.
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 16, 2003 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported sales of $954 million and a net loss of $31 million for the quarter ended September 28, 2003. The net loss amounted to $0.09 per share. Third quarter 2003 results include the operating results of FASL LLC, which was formed effective June 30, 2003 and is owned 60 percent by AMD and 40 percent by Fujitsu Limited.
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 14, 2003 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the company has received the top semiconductor supplier award from Robert Bosch GmbH for the period 2001-2002. The award was presented to AMD for delivering outstanding performance, quality, and reliability on products from its Spansion™ Flash memory product portfolio.
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- October 12, 2003 -- On the day that saw the greatest record in Formula One racing fall, AMD (NYSE: AMD) congratulates Ferrari’s extraordinary driver Michael Schumacher on his history-making sixth consecutive World Championship. Schumacher, who also holds the record for the most Grand Prix victories, surpasses legendary driver Juan Manuel Fangio’s record of five driving titles.
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NEW YORK -- October 10, 2003 --At the 115th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with Open Labs, RackSaver and Steinberg Audio to offer AMD Opteron™ processor-based digital audio workstations (DAW). AMD also announced its recent role in the digital editing of Fuel’s Natural Selection and the forthcoming Korn record, Take a Look in the Mirror.
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NEW YORK -- October 10, 2003 --At the 115th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced support for Zappa.com and forthcoming support for the Zappa studio with AMD Opteron™ processor-based digital audio workstations and servers. Also known as the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (UMRK), this studio is being equipped with AMD64 technology for 32- and 64-bit processing that enables Dweezil Zappa to compose music and move his father’s master analog tapes into the new surround digital formats.
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NEW ORLEANS -- October 9, 2003 --Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced support for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 on AMD Opteron™ processors based on AMD64 technology. This combination will provide a high-performance, cost-effective server solution for small-to-medium (SMB) business customers that can support their most critical IT needs, including file and print, e-mail, Web services, and database services.
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