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— Outstanding execution and upcoming technology innovations set stage for
sustainable success and growth —
— AMD on path to introduce new AMD Fusion™ family of APUs in 2011 —
— Increased performance and power efficiency expected from “Bulldozer” and
“Bobcat” cores in 2011 —
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 11, 2009 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced new details
on its platform roadmap at the 2009 Financial Analyst Day, where senior
executives, including President and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Meyer,
discussed AMD’s strategy for sustained success and growth in 2010 and beyond.
“In 2009, AMD transformed into a design innovation leader with a new business
model tuned to deliver consistent financial performance,” said Meyer. “In 2010,
we plan to extend our clear graphics leadership and market momentum with new
server and client platforms designed to deliver superior performance against key
end-user workloads. And in 2011, we plan to usher in a new era of computing with
our first AMD Fusion™ products, placing AMD on a clear path to industry
leadership.”
In 2009, AMD achieved all of its major milestones, including:
• Transformed into a financially stronger, design-focused company, putting into
place a new business model with the creation of GLOBALFOUNDRIES;
• Launched next-generation DirectX® 11 capable ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and HD 5700
series of graphics cards, powered by the world’s fastest graphics processors1;
• Introduced VISION Technology from AMD, a differentiated approach to retail
merchandising designed to reinforce the value proposition of AMD platforms and
simplify the consumer buying experience;
• Won major technology transitions such as 40nm and DirectX® 11; and
• Achieved outstanding execution across all major product launches in 2009
including 1st and 2nd Generation Ultrathin Notebook Platforms, “Dragon” platform
technology featuring AMD Phenom™ II processors, and the Six-Core AMD Opteron™
processor, launched five months ahead of schedule.
AMD 2010 Roadmap Overview
As PC users increasingly use more visually demanding applications, AMD remains
the only company that delivers platforms with balanced performance and superior
multimedia and visual computing capabilities. AMD’s strong platform roadmap for
2010 includes (by codename):
• “Danube” - The next AMD mainstream notebook platform featuring the first AMD
mobile quad-core processors, “Danube” is expected to offer seven or more hours
of battery life;
• “Nile” - The 3rd Generation AMD ultrathin notebook platform, designed to offer
seven or more hours of battery life;
• “San Marino” and “Maranello” - Two new DDR3-based server platforms designed
for the volume server market. “Maranello,” with the 8- and 12-core “Magny-Cours”
processor will represent the beginning of unprecedented leaps in
performance-per-watt for AMD Opteron™ processors, while “San Marino” will offer
new levels of value and power efficiency for the rapidly growing Web and Cloud
Computing segment; and
• “Leo” - The next-generation enthusiast-class desktop PC platform with the
industry’s first six-core desktop CPU, expected to deliver the ultimate
performance for immersive gaming with support for DirectX® 11 graphics and ATI
Eyefinity™ Technology.
AMD 2011 Roadmap Overview
In 2011, AMD will usher in a new era of computing with (by codename):
• “Bulldozer” and “Bobcat” - Two new x86 cores targeting different usage models.
“Bulldozer” will be a completely new, high performance architecture for the
mainstream server, desktop and notebook PC markets that employs a new approach
to multithreaded compute performance for achieving advanced efficiency and
throughput. “Bulldozer” is designed to give AMD an exceptional CPU option for
linking with GPUs in highly scalable, single-chip Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)
configurations. “Bobcat” will target the low power, ultrathin PC markets with an
extremely small, highly flexible, core that also is designed to be easily scaled
up and combined with other IP in APU configurations.
• “Llano” - Targeted at mainstream notebooks and desktops, this APU will be the
first in a family of next-generation designs that combine the power of the CPU
and GPU onto a single piece of silicon and engineered to deliver impressive
visual computing experiences, outstanding performance with low power and long
battery life. It is expected to be the industry’s first APU processor ahead of
the first “Bulldozer” and “Bobcat” based APUs;
• “Brazos” – A low cost, low-power ultraportable platform featuring the APU
codenamed “Ontario,” which will contain the new “Bobcat” core and integrated GPU,
and is intended for superior performance in a low-power design; and
• “Zambezi” – An enthusiast desktop processor with up to eight cores, featuring
the first “Bulldozer” core, scheduled for release in 2011.
Supporting Resources
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated
to collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next
generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home and play. For more
information, visit http://www.amd.com.
Cautionary Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the
safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 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, including the risk that Intel Corporation’s pricing, marketing and
rebating programs, product bundling, standard setting, new product introductions
or other activities targeting AMD’s business will prevent attainment of AMD’s
current plans; AMD will be unable to develop, launch and ramp new products and
technologies in the volumes and mix required by the market and at mature yields
on a timely basis; there will be unexpected variations in market growth and
demand for AMD’s products and technologies in light of the product mix that it
may have available at any particular time or a decline in demand; AMD will be
unable to maintain the level of investment in research and development and
capacity that is required to remain competitive; and AMD will be unable to
obtain sufficient manufacturing capacity or components to meet demand for its
products. We urge investors to review in detail the risks and uncertainties in
the Company’s filings with the United States Securities Exchange Commission.
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and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other
names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
1. Claim of most powerful processor based on raw compute horsepower measured in
FLOPS. Internal calculations show that the processor used in the ATI Radeon HD
5800 series can achieve 2.72 TeraFLOPS, more than any other known microprocessor
as of September 23, 2009. FLOPS is not necessarily an indicator of leading
performance in every application as AMD GPUs are designed and built to excel
specifically in applications involving massively parallel calculations.
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