AMD announces opening of AMD Developer Center.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) has announced the opening of the AMD Developer Center, a facility dedicated to providing commercial software and hardware developers worldwide access to AMD's technical expertise and validation resources. AMD also announced the availability of two additional development support resources--a beta x86-64 Linux distribution The Linux operating system packaged for customers for a fee. It includes the Linux kernel, essential operating system components from the GNU Project, an installation program, various open source utilities and applications, documentation and technical support. and the AMD x86-64 Architecture Programmer's Manual. "AMD provides the resources and support developers need to optimize powerful 64-bit applications for upcoming products based on Hammer technology," said Richard Heye, AMD's vice president of Platform Engineering and Infrastructure, Computation Products Group. "With formal development resources in place, AMD's software and hardware partners are empowered to create 32-bit and 64-bit applications and drivers for the x86-64 platform." The AMD Developer Center offers AMD partners code and development platform services, either directly at the center 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. or remotely via secure high-speed access. It allows consultation with AMD 64-bit code experts, helping partners to accelerate their development and validation of products for the upcoming AMD processors based on Hammer technology. AMD also made SuSE's beta x86-64 Linux distribution available to more than 150 AMD partners that are currently working with AMD Opteron processor-based development platforms. Using this Linux beta distribution Not to be confused with Beta function. In probability theory and statistics, the beta distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] parameterized by two non-negative shape parameters, typically denoted by α and β. , AMD partners can create Linux-compatible x86-64 applications. The commercial availability of SuSE x86-64 Linux distribution is expected to coincide with the first shipments of AMD Athlon processors based on Hammer technology. "SuSE is committed to delivering stable, manageable enterprise solutions to our customers," said Markus Rex, SuSE Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as vice president of engineering. "We believe that 64-bit computing will thrive on x86-64 technology-based platforms. SuSE is first to provide a beta Linux distribution and allow AMD's partners to fully recognize the benefit of 64-bit Linux on x86-64." AMD x86-64 Architecture Programmer's Manual is a five-volume guide designed to help software developers optimize applications for AMD's x86-64 microprocessor architecture. AMD's x86-64 architecture extends x86, the industry's most widely supported instruction set, and is designed to enable 64-bit computing while remaining compatible with existing 32-bit software infrastructure and industry experience. The manual can assist software developers writing application programs, compilers, assemblers, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , loaders, linkers, device drivers or system utilities. Developers can request a copy or download a PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. of the AMD x86-64 Architecture Programmer's Manual through www.amd.com. 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, 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. |
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