AMD Wins Eight Awards At CeBIT, Europe's Largest IT Trade Show.Business Editors, Technology Writers CeBit 2000 HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 1.1 Gigahertz One billion cycles per second. See GHz. (unit) GigaHertz - (GHz) Billions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. 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. Athlon(TM) Processor Technology Demonstration With Copper Interconnects Takes Prestigious "Trend Setting Hardware Technology" Honors From a Top European IT Publication The AMD Athlon(TM) processor collected eight new awards at CeBIT 2000, the world's largest IT trade show. This adds to a list now totaling 51 awards from publications in 15 countries for the AMD Athlon processor and systems based on it since the introduction of the AMD Athlon processor in August 1999. Among the honors received were "trend setting technology" in the hardware category from CHIP magazin, a leading European IT publication whose prestigious awards are known as the "CeBIT-Oscars." This honor was reserved for the 1.1 Gigahertz (GHz) AMD Athlon processor technology demonstration, selected from a field of more than 7,500 exhibitors demonstrating thousands of new innovations at CeBIT. Produced at AMD's new Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, this lightning fast demonstration 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. utilizes state-of-the-art 0.18 micron micron: see micrometer. One micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter or approximately 1/25,000 of an inch. The tiny elements that make up a transistor on a chip are measured in micrometers and nanometers. See process technology. copper interconnect technology and an integrated level 2 cache See L2 cache. level 2 cache - secondary cache running at full processor speed. AMD's Fab 30 is expected to begin shipping copper-based processors by the end of the second quarter this year. "We are pleased with the overwhelmingly positive response we have received since the introduction of the AMD Athlon processor. The award given to AMD by CHIP magazin recognizes the benefits of our investment in the copper interconnect technology," said Rob Herb, chief marketing executive for AMD. "The technology being developed and deployed in Dresden is expected to enable us to continue to offer superior solutions for the high performance market." AMD also received awards at CeBIT from three other leading German IT publications as well as one from Croatia, including:
PC Direct -- (Germany)
-- "Most Innovative Manufacturer" AMD for the AMD Athlon processor
-- PC Shopping -- (Germany)
-- "Reader's Choice -- Most Innovative Hardware" AMD Athlon
processor
-- "Reader's Choice -- Company of the Year" AMD for the AMD Athlon
processor
PC Professionell -- (Germany)
-- "Innovation of the Year 99-00" Finalist, AMD Athlon processor
VIDI Magazine -- (Croatia)
-- "Grand Prix Award, Best CPU -- Hi-End Use" 800MHz AMD Athlon
processor
-- "Grand Prix Award, Best CPU -- Games" 800MHz AMD Athlon processor
-- "Grand Prix Award, Best CPU -- Office Use" 800MHz AMD Athlon
processor
Visit AMD on the Web For more information about the AMD Athlon processor, please visit http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/index.html. Additional press releases and information about AMD are available at http://www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD Athlon(TM) Processor Awards Around the World Prior to capturing the CeBIT honors, the AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon processor-based systems had received 43 awards from countries spanning five continents. The following is a listing of those AMD Athlon processor and AMD Athlon processor-based system awards:
AMD Athlon Processor Awards
-- Analyst's Choice Award -- Best PC Processor, Microprocessor
Report, January 2000
-- Technical Excellence -- Best Component (Hardware Category), PC
Magazine, November 1999
-- CPU of the Year, Maximum PC, December 1999
-- Best Product of 1999 (Hardware), Windows NT Systems, January
2000
-- All-Star Award, Cadalyst, December 1999
-- Wired for 3D Editors' Choice, 3D Magazine, January 2000
-- Attaboy Award -- Product of the Year, Houston Chronicle,
December 1999
-- Technical Excellence -- Best Component (Hardware Category), PC
Magazine en Espanol, December 1999
-- Best Overall Product of the Year, PC Magazine (UK), December
1999
-- Best System Design -- Processor, PC Magazine (UK), December 1999
-- Product of the Year, PC Expert (France), January 2000
-- Technical Excellence -- Hardware and Component Category, PC
Expert (France), January 2000
-- Year 2000 Star Product (New Technology Category), Info PC
(France), January 2000
-- Overall Product of the Year, Info PC (France), January 2000
-- Editors' Choice, Generation PC (France), January 2000
-- Product of the Year, PC Compatibles (France), December 1999
-- Product of the Year -- Processor, PC Direct (France), January
2000
-- Product of the Year 2000, PC Achat (France), January 2000
-- Product of the Year, PC World (Denmark), December 1999
-- Product of the Year, PC World (Norway), December 1999
-- Best CPU for Desktops, PC World Komputer (Poland), December 1999
-- Technology Product of the Year, PC Kurier (Poland), January 2000
-- Millennium Award, Personal Computer Magazine (The Netherlands),
January 2000
-- Best of Comdex (Israel), December 1999
-- Best of World PC Expo 99 (Japan), Nikkei BYTE/Nikkei WinPC
Magazine, September 1999
-- Hardware of the Year Award - Processors (Germany) PC Joker
Magazine
-- Readers Choice Award (Poland), CHIP Magazine
-- Product of the Year Award (Finland), MikroPC, December 1999
-- Product of the Year Award - Processors (700MHz AMD Athlon
processor) (Finland), Tietokone, December 1999
-- Best Product of 1999 (China), China Computerworld, January 2000
-- Top 10 IT Product in 1999 (China), China Computer Reseller
Weekly, January 2000
-- Highly Recommended Hardware, eNet, January 2000
-- Upgrade Product of 1999 (Australia), Australian Personal
Computer, November 1999
AMD Athlon Processor-based System Awards
-- State-of-the-Art Desktop PC: Compaq Presario 5861, PC Computing,
November 1999
-- Editors' Choice Award (Desktop PCs): TCE K7-600, Computer
Reseller News, September 1999
-- #1 Midrange PC: Micro Express's MicroFlex-550B, PC World,
January 2000
-- Best Hardware of 1999: Polywell Poly 800K7-700, CNET.com,
December 1999
-- System of the Year: CyberMax Enthusiast AP6 650 MHz Athlon,
Maximum PC, December 1999
-- Attaboy Award -- Best Consumer PC: Compaq Presario 5900Z,
Houston Chronicle, December 1999
-- Cadalyst Labs 5-Star (out of a possible 5 stars) Highly
Recommended Workstation:
-- Polywell 800K7-6501 (650MHz AMD Athlon processor)
-- Sys Performance 600A (600MHz AMD Athlon processor)
-- Xi Computer 650K MTower SP (650MHz AMD Athlon processor)
-- Ultimate Game Machine (co-winner): Falcon Northwest Computers,
Computer Gaming World, December 1999.
About the AMD Athlon Processor The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms See x86 chip platform. ; high-performance cache technology, including 128KB of on-chip level (L1) cache and a programmable, high-performance backside BACKSIDE, estates. In England this term was formerly used in conveyances and even in pleadings, and is still, adhered to with reference to ancient descriptions in deeds, in continuing the transfer of the same. property. L2 cache (Level 2 cache) A memory bank built into the CPU chip, packaged within the same module or built on the motherboard. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, and its memory is slower than L1 memory. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, which feeds the processor. interface; enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology with 24 additional instructions A charge given to a jury by a judge after the original instructions to explain the law and guide the jury in its decision making. Additional instructions are frequently needed after the jury has begun deliberations and finds that it has a question concerning the evidence, a designed to improve integer integer: see number; number theory math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive communications; and the AMD Athlon system bus -- a 200MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. system interface based on the Alpha(TM) EV6 bus protocol with support for scalable multiprocessing multiprocessing Mode of computer operation in which two or more processors (see CPU) are connected and are active at the same time. In such a system, each processor is executing a different program or set of instructions, thus increasing computation speed over a . AMD Athlon processors are manufactured using AMD's aluminum 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas. 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. AMD produces processors, flash memories and products for communications and networking applications. AMD processors, including the AMD-K6(R)-2 and AMD Athlon product families, power computers manufactured by nine of the Top 10 computer manufacturers worldwide. AMD's mobile processors are used in more than 65 percent of notebook computers A laptop computer that weighs in a range from five to seven pounds. The term originated when laptops were routinely more than 10 pounds, and those that became lighter were placed in a special "notebook" category. In practice, notebook computer and laptop computer are synonymous. sold in the retail market to consumers and small businesses. 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 $2.9 billion in 1999. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD). Cautionary Statement This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally preceded by words such as "plans," "expects," "believes," "anticipates" or "intends." Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements in this release involve risks and uncertainty that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Forward-looking statements in this release include the risk that AMD will be unable to produce AMD Athlon microprocessors Athlon is the name of a family of CPUs designed by AMD, targeted mostly at the desktop market. Athlon (Model 1,K7 "Argon", 250 nm) K7500MTR51B C, K7550MTR51B C and K7650MTR51B C
AMD, the AMD logo, AMD Athlon, K6, 3DNow! and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and AMD-K6 is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Alpha is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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