AMD Announces 16-City `Team AMD Tech Tour' for North American System Builders.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2002 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) today announced the spring Team AMD Tech Tour lineup, a series of seminars throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. set to begin April 16 in Detroit. The program is designed to share AMD's latest technology as well as help system builders gain additional success in the white box PC market. "The Team AMD Tech Tour is one of the ways in which AMD helps our system builders reach their sales goals in the marketplace," said Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller (born Robert Welch , director of North America Field Marketing for AMD. "We'll bring our innovative technology, and that of our hardware and software partners, to 16 cities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada. The program is designed to allow AMD to collaborate with its system builder partners on developing and delivering solutions to their customers." Each seminar will include breakout sessions on new technology and sales techniques that can help AMD's system builder partners work with their customers. Attendees at each seminar will have an opportunity to talk one-on-one with representatives from different companies at an AMD-hosted vendor showcase. "We believe that our market-share gains in 2001 in the commercial desktop segment show that our system builders are finding success with the award-winning AMD Athlon(TM) family of processors, which encompasses top-to-bottom solutions for desktop, mobile, server and workstation needs," Fuller said. "Our goal is to help our system builder partners become even more successful." "MSI MSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer. (2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. , which currently offers a wide array of AMD-recommended motherboards, continues to support AMD products and technologies as a Program Sponsor of the spring 2002 Team AMD Tech Tour," said Calvin Wu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MSI Computer Corp. "We would like to invite system builders to visit us again this year. The tour will offer a lot of excellent technical information, as well as fun, for our system builder colleagues." "The Team AMD Tech Tour offers NVIDIA another avenue to help system builders grow their business, a market that is critical to NVIDIA's worldwide success," said Oliver Baltuch, director of Strategic Marketing at NVIDIA Corporation. "By offering education, collateral and other valuable data along with the innovative nForce, GeForce and AMD Athlon XP A family of Pentium-compatible CPU chips from AMD introduced in 2001. Departing from the traditional MHz designation, Athlon XP chips use model numbers that combine clock speed and architectural features into a numerical rating. products, NVIDIA and AMD are providing system builders with the essential tools to build the ultimate PC." "As a participant in the Team AMD Tech Tour seminars, we are looking forward to presenting to our system builder colleagues the powerful combination of AMD processors and Phoenix's breakthrough FirstWare Rescue product line," said Susan L. Kennedy, vice president of Product Marketing, FirstWare Platform and Products, Phoenix Technologies. "Our `always-available' pre-OS FirstWare solutions are designed to dramatically reduce manufacturing and support costs, and provide excellent up-sell opportunities to increase margins on each PC sold." "The VIA Apollo KT333 chipset is the highest performance solution on the market for AMD Athlon(TM) XP processor-based systems," said Richard Brown Richard Brown can refer to:
named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. channel." Following the April 16 tour stop in Detroit, the Team AMD Tech Tour will visit the following U.S. and Canadian cities: Boston, Calgary, Chicago, City of Industry (Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ), Dallas, Hartford, Montreal, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Newark, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. For more information or to register for a seminar, please visit www.amd.com/TeamAMD. About the AMD System Builder Program The AMD System Builder Program, with approximately 14,000 members in the United States and Canada, offers many valuable tools specifically designed for resellers who build and sell AMD processor-based PCs. Members of the AMD System Builder Program receive periodic news updates, information about AMD products and promotions, and more. To become a member of the program, visit http://www.amd.com/reseller/reseller.html and complete the online application. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE: AMD). AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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