AMD Announces Leading Energy Companies Reduce the Risks and Costs of Exploration and Production Using the AMD Opteron(TM) Processor.

HOUSTON -- Oil & Gas Customers Increasingly Leverage Computing Power and Energy Efficiencies of AMD64 Dual-Core Technology

At the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exposition & 75th Annual Meeting, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that industry-leading energy companies such as Chevron Texaco Corp., ConocoPhillips, Inc. and Veritas DGC Inc. are increasingly turning to the Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor to help improve efficiencies and reduce risk and costs during exploration and production (E&P). Solutions based on the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor dramatically increase compute cycles, helping these companies improve efficiencies and reduce risks in finding and producing hydrocarbons.

As a leading provider of integrated geophysical information and services to the petroleum industry worldwide, Veritas DGC Inc. has helped transform how the energy industry views seismic data. Veritas uses AMD64 technology and their own proprietary algorithms to process and analyze vast volumes of seismic data in their state-of-the-art Global Processing Facility, which is powered by the AMD Opteron(TM) processor with Direct Connect Architecture. AMD64 technology allows Veritas to more effectively manage the extreme compute demands of today's most advanced geophysical processing technologies and techniques.

"With thousands of AMD Opteron processors crunching data in our Global Processing Centre, we are able to dramatically increase computing performance," said Colin Murdoch, senior vice president, Technology, Veritas DGC Inc. "This translates into being able to apply higher fidelity imaging techniques with significantly increased throughput and reduced turnaround time. Ultimately, this improves the detail and quality of subsurface information in the Veritas seismic data and enables our customers to maximize their recovery of oil and natural gas."

Oil and gas solution providers are also reporting benefits from the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor. PGS, a technology-focused oil field and seismic service company that selected AMD64 technology to gain a competitive advantage, provides a broad range of geophysical and reservoir services, including seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation plus field evaluation.

"A recent increase in volume of viable oil fields is increasing our customers' demands for more detailed and efficient surface mapping. With the ever-growing demand we needed to increase our computing power without increasing our costs, and AMD came through for us," said Thorbjorn Rekdal, director, Data Center, PGS. "When running codes, we found that the Dual-Core AMD processor delivered almost 100 percent more throughput than single-core processors, while reducing our energy requirements. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor's leadership in performance per watt allowed us to expand our compute power without increasing our facilities costs."

GX Technology (GXT) Corporation is also leveraging the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor for cost and performance benefits. GXT, a division of Input-Output Inc., is a leading provider of seismic land and marine imaging solutions.

"As one of the largest and most successful global suppliers of high fidelity land and marine sub-surface imaging services, our customers demand exceptional quality and on-time performance from our Image-Driven(TM) seismic solutions," said Nick Bernitsas, senior vice president, GXT. "We have found that the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor has delivered a compelling result for GXT and our customers."

Additionally, these companies, which require massive compute power, are benefiting from energy efficiencies enabled by AMD64 technology, helping to reduce overall operational costs.

"The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor is perfectly suited for oil and gas customers," said Kevin Knox, vice president, Worldwide Commercial Business Development, AMD. "Since AMD's Direct Connect Architecture provides separate paths for I/O, memory access and inter-processor communications, the AMD Opteron processor helps eliminate bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures and keeps energy consumption down -- ultimately providing the industry's best performance per watt."

For more information on how companies such as Veritas, PGS, GXT and many others are benefiting from Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based platforms, please visit www.amd.com/enterprise.

About the AMD Opteron(TM) Processor

More than 85 of the top 100 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies or their subsidiaries, representing the world's most competitive industries, now use AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based systems to run applications at new levels of performance. The AMD Opteron processor, based on AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture, made history as the industry's first x86 multi-core processor for servers and workstations that is both 32- and 64-bit capable. Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors can deliver higher performance within the same power envelope as single-core processors because they were designed from the ground up for multi-core computing. With a broad portfolio of dual-core and single-core solutions and a robust 64-bit ecosystem, AMD and its customers are leading the way to the next evolution of enterprise computing.

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