AMD Announces Return of Popular Reseller Seminar Series; The U.S.-Canada Road Show Planned to Hit 32 Cities by Year's End.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 Register at www.amd.com/reseller/seminar/ AMD announced today the resumption of its popular Reseller Seminar Series to update North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. resellers about AMD's full range of products and programs, including the award-winning AMD Athlon(TM) and AMD Duron(TM) processors and the AMD Reseller Program. The AMD Reseller Team, in conjunction with Computer Associates International (CA) and 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. (TM) Computer Corporation, is scheduled to visit 32 cities coast to coast between today's seminar in Atlanta and the year's final event, scheduled for Honolulu in mid-December. "The AMD Reseller Seminar is a definite 'must-do' event," said Mike Stephen, owner of M. Stephen Contracting in Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , who attended a seminar in May. "If you build, assemble, sell or support PCs, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. marketplace. The AMD seminar is where you can ask AMD support personnel all the hard questions and see where AMD is going in relation to the competition and the x86 marketplace." The four-hour training seminars, free-of-charge including dinner and gifts, are geared for PC System Builders including owners, managers, technicians and sales and marketing professionals. Members of the AMD Reseller Program brief participants on AMD's product plans, upcoming technologies, market opportunities, strategies regarding AMD's hardware and software partners and marketing programs for resellers. Upcoming seminars in August include visits to Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland and Tampa. To register for a seminar and to obtain more information about the seminar series, please go to www.amd.com/reseller/seminar. In the first half of the year, AMD conducted seminars in 33 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Edison (New Jersey), Houston, Indianapolis, 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. , Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, Newark, New York Newark is a village in Wayne County, New York, U.S., 30 miles (48 km) east by south of Rochester. The population was 9,682 at the 2000 census. The Village of Newark is in the south part of the Town of Arcadia and is in the south of Wayne County. , Nashville, Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm , Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Seattle, Tampa, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. "The response to our reseller outreach has been overwhelming," said Lee Little, AMD's Director of Field Marketing for the Americas. "Since the first round of seminars ended in June, we have launched a new version of the AMD Athlon processor with performance-enhancing full-speed cache memory and the new AMD Duron processor for the value space. In addition, we have a number of new products and technologies planned for release over the next year to share with our reseller partners." "This is a great opportunity for resellers to learn about the power of AMD and Computer Associates solutions together. Computer Associates' desktop management solutions are an excellent combination with AMD's advanced solutions that lower total cost of ownership while increasing competitiveness," said Joe Pascal, CA business manager, desktop management solutions. "MSI Computer Corporation is proud to be a sponsor of AMD's Reseller Seminar Series," said Tricia Phng, MSI Marketing Coordinator. "Being part of the seminar series provides us the opportunity to reach out to our common target audience of resellers and system builders." About the AMD Reseller Program The AMD Reseller Program, with about 16,000 members 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, offers many valuable tools specifically designed for resellers who build and sell AMD processor-based PCs. AMD Reseller Program Partners receive periodic news updates, information about AMD products and promotions, and much more. To become a member of the program, visit www.amd.com/reseller/reseller.html and complete the online application. Visit AMD on the Web For more information about AMD, please visit AMD's virtual pressroom at http://www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD 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 $2.9 billion in 1999. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD). Note to Editors: AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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