AMD Athlon XP Processor Receives Prestigious Readers' Choice Award from PC Magazine Germany; AMD Processors Chosen ``Product of the Year'' Four Years in a Row.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003 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 that readers of PC Magazine Germany named the AMD Athlon(TM) XP processor "Product of the Year 2002/2003." This is the fourth consecutive year that a product from the AMD Athlon processor family has received this Readers' Choice Award. Readers of PC Magazine Germany also chose AMD and the 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. processor for second place in the "Most Innovative Company and "Most Innovative" Product" categories, respectively, behind Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . "The Readers' Choice Award from PC Magazine Germany validates the success of the AMD Athlon XP processor, the world's highest performing PC processor," said Jochen Polster, general manager, AMD Germany. "The readers of PC Magazine Germany are known for their passion for innovative products and technologies that benefit end users best. Considering the vast array of high performance and feature rich products in the IT industry available today and the number of companies bringing fresh ideas to market, we are especially honored to win PC Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards." "For PC Magazine Germany - being the advocate of the end user - it is a pleasure to see that innovative companies like AMD care about technologies which benefit the PC user and enable them to make their computing experience more entertaining and more productive," said David Goehler, editor in chief of PC Magazine Germany. "Our Readers' Choice Award impressively demonstrates that AMD belongs among the most successful companies in the IT industry." About the AMD Athlon(TM) XP Processor The AMD Athlon XP processor features QuantiSpeed(TM) architecture and support for AMD's 3DNow!(TM) Professional instructions for enhanced multimedia capabilities. Depending on the core, AMD Athlon XP processors feature either 384KB or 640KB of on-chip, full-speed cache. The AMD Athlon XP processor is compatible with AMD's Socket A The motherboard receptacle for Duron and newer Athlon CPU chips from AMD. It uses a 462-pin PGA package. See Slot A. infrastructure, and supports the advanced 266 or 333 front-side bus (FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus ). AMD Athlon XP processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.13 micron copper process technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. 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 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. , 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 Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , AMD had revenues of approximately $2.7 billion in 2002. (NYSE: AMD). AMD on the Web For more information about today's announcement, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/spotlight. AMD performance benchmark information is available at www.amd.com/athlonxpbenchmarks. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. For more information about AMD's business products, please visit www.amd.com/business. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof, 3DNow! and QuantiSpeed are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft, Corp. the US and/or other jurisdictions. Other product and company names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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