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One Amd Place

Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3453

USA

Phone	408.749.4000
Fax	408.774.7216

Company Information

Company Information
Industry	Electrical Goods Wholesalers/Manufacturing

# of Employees	16500

Ownership	Public Company



Company Security Requirements	1. Very High

Company Storage Requirements	1. Very High

Fortune 1000 Rank	407

Description

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions.Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessor and graphics and media solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries.

Quick Company Facts
Year Company Started: 1969
Number of Employees: approximately 16,500
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
CEO: Hector Ruiz
Number of Locations: 80
Revenue: $5.649 billion in 2006
NYSE ticker symbol: AMD

Innovation
Since the beginning, our focus has gone beyond integrated circuits and transistors. AMD is the informed choice for those who want superior microprocessor and graphics solutions designed from the perspective of the customer. After all, our customers' success is our success. That’s why AMD products are always developed with customer needs in mind and not for the sake of technology alone. We provide real solutions for real customer problems that exist in the real world today. It’s a philosophy we refer to as “customer-centric innovation,” and it represents the guiding principle behind everything we do.

Vision
We never rest on our laurels. Our passion for what we do compels us to keep looking for the next opportunity to succeed. With corporate locations in Sunnyvale, California; Austin, Texas; and Markham, Ontario; and global operations and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia, we’re one of the world’s leading integrated circuit manufacturers. We’re also among the market leaders in each of our core businesses: microprocessors and graphics and media solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries.

Execution

Because our customers’ needs are ever-changing, AMD understands the value of looking towards—and keeping pace with—the future. To help ensure we meet our customers’ needs today and tomorrow, AMD invests in state-of-the-art technology research many years in advance of first commercial use.

Like other world-class companies, we are proud of our success, but we are never satisfied. At AMD, we are committed to delivering the innovative solutions our customers need, building the framework for sustainable growth going forward.

Operating Systems Utilized

Technology
UNIX
SOLARIS
LINUX

Top Executives

Executive Name	Title
Cambou, Bertrand	Officer (President & CEO, Fasl Llc)
Edwards, William	Senior Vice President And Chief, Officer
Hester, Phil	Senior Vice President And Chief Technology Officer
Hester, Phillip	Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Mccoy, Thomas	Executive Vice President - Legal Affairs, Chief Administrative Officer
Meroni, Giuliano	President
Meyer, Derrick	President, Chief Operating Officer, Director
Meyer, Dirk	President And Chief Operating Officer
Orton, Dave	Executive Vice President - Visual & Media Businesses
Richard, Henri	(Outgoing)Chief Sales And Marketing Officer
Rivas, Mario	Executive Vice President - Computing Products Group
Rivet, Bob	Chief Financial Officer
Rivet, Robert	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Ruiz, Hector	Chairman Of The Board, Chief Executive Officer

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Recent Company Events

Date	Type of Event	Details
2008-03-04	Contract/Agreements	Appro to Support Renault's Drive for Performance in Formula 1 Racing MILPITAS, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high performance enterprise computing systems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract for a 38TF Appro Xtreme X(TM) Supercomputer for the ING Renault F1 Team Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Centre, a brand new modern technology driven research facility designed to place Renault "in the pole position" in Formula 1 competition. This award marks another milestone for Appro's supercomputers in international HPC markets. The Appro Xtreme X2 Supercomputer will be shipped and installed by Appro at the Renault F1 CFD Centre in the UK by the end of June, 2008. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi bin/prnh/20010301/SFTH064LOGO a) Appro's supercomputer will provide the ING Renault F1 Team's CFD Centre with a five fold increase in CFD computing capacity with the ability to run full car simulations in addition to the aerodynamic testing of components such as the front and rear wings, turning vanes, brake ducts, fuel tanks and more. Appro's Xtreme X2 meets the capability computing and high availability requirements needed for the new CFD Centre computational resources. At current conservative development rates, the expanded facility will provide 50% of the gains of a fully efficient mature wind tunnel for less than 50% of the investment. With this added computing capacity provided by Xtreme X2, the Renault F1 Team will generate a measurable competitive advantage to further establish the company as a technology leader in Formula 1 racing. The Supercomputer will also be used to expand the current computational support for Renault F1's integration into the Renault Nissan group's research and development efforts. This integration means a valuable CFD resource will be made available at minimum cost to other business units for research beyond Formula 1. "We are extremely pleased to work with ING Renault F1 Team to provide improved computing capability, better reliability, superior system performance and an outstanding management system delivered by Appro Xtreme X2 Supercomputers"; said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. "Appro is excited to partner with a technology innovator like Renault to achieve the competitive edge in Formula 1 and beyond." "Renault is looking forward to the installation of the Appro Xtreme X2 Supercomputer to enhance our CFD Centre computational resources"; said Bob Bell, Technical Director of ING Renault F1 Team. "Appro not only offered us a cost effective solution but they also improved our required technical specification through better reliability, greater fault tolerance and redundancy as well as more flexibility with regards to system scalability. The Xtreme X2 supercomputer to be delivered to the Renault F1's CFD centre is based on Quad Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor compute nodes. As configured, the computer has a peak capability of 38TF and is provisioned and managed as a single unified supercomputing system. The system has 4.4TB of high performance local memory with a usable aggregate bandwidth of more than 8Terrabytes/s. Each dual processor node has a peak capability of more than 70Gigaflops. The compute nodes in the system are interconnected by a dual rail double data rate Infiniband interconnect fabric that provides reduced inter processor latency and improved system reliability. The system comes pre configured with the Appro Management System that supports a dual rail Infiniband network as a load balanced fault tolerant interconnect and allows the use of shared receive queues with multi channel operation. The software is designed to maximize the bandwidth associated with MPI processes and to support non stop operation for mission critical operations. The system is supported by large memory and visualization nodes equipped with dual Graphic Processing Units (GPU) to allow large panel displays to show simulation result
2008-01-22	Contract/Agreements	Cray Technical Services to provide Local Service and Support MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high performance enterprise computing systems, announces today it has been awarded a contract for a 95TF Appro Xtreme X(TM) Supercomputer for the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, to be located in the center of Tsukuba Science City. The region is well known for its large concentration of advanced research institutions in various areas of science and technology. The Tsukuba award is a major breakthrough for Appro's supercomputers into the Japanese HPC market. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi bin/prnh/20010301/SFTH064LOGO a) The University chooses Appro's Xtreme X3 Supercomputer for its matchless Quad Rail system interconnect, which provides the lowest latency and the highest bandwidth performance to meet both capacity and capability computing requirements for Tsukuba's computational scientific research programs. The Appro Xtreme X3 Supercomputer will be shipped and installed by Appro at the University by the end of May 2008. Appro will partner with Cray Technical Services and Sumisho Computer Systems (SCS), a major IT trading company in Japan, to deliver the system and service to the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. As the prime contractor, SCS combined both Appro HPC solutions while Cray Technical Services supplied local service and support, providing technical expertise for the installation and operation of the supercomputer. This agreement was based on a common goal of helping customers reduce complexity in deploying, managing and servicing their commodity High Performance Computing solutions, while lowering their total cost of ownership. "Cray Technical Services has a distinguished history of successfully delivering large scale HPC solutions to our government and commercial customers," said Mamoru Nakano, president of Cray Japan. "The University of Tsukuba is dedicated to elevating the international competitiveness of Japanese universities and is quickly becoming a world class, internationally competitive institute of higher education. We welcome this opportunity to work with Appro to provide local support and service for this significant HPC Solution in Japan." The Appro Xtreme X3 will be used principally to provide needed computational support for scientific research and computer science programs covering a wide range of research and education areas, including artificial intelligence, massively parallel computing, and other leading edge science and technology. The Department promotes researchers capable of analyzing and solving various problems in computer systems and specific research fields, including Information Mathematics and Modeling, Intelligent Software, Software System, Computer Architecture and Media Engineering. "Appro has stepped into the HPC market limelight by winning contracts for large scale systems at the U.S. Department of Energy's tri labs and now at the University of Tsukuba, one of Japan's leading academic research institutions," said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president for HPC. "IDC projects that clusters will continue to be the main growth engines for the HPC market, driving server revenue from $10 billion dollar in 2006 to more than $15 billion in 2011." The Xtreme X3 supercomputer consists of a total of 674 quad socket, Quad Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor based compute nodes with 2,696 processors and a total of 10,784 processing cores. As configured, the computer has 95TF of computing capability, but can scale to up to 120TF and still be provisioned and managed as a single unified supercomputing system. The system provides 21.5TB of high performance local memory with a usable aggregate bandwidth of more than 20Terrabytes/s. Each node has a peak capability of almost 150Gigaflops and can support up to 256GB of high bandwidth ECC memory. The Xtr
2008-01-16	Contract/Agreements	SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a digital media company, today announced a licensing agreement with semiconductor supplier AMD (NYSE:AMD). This agreement will allow AMD to include DivX video technology with specific AMD Xilleon processors to power a broad range of next-generation digital TVs worldwide. "We are committed to delivering a true multimedia experience with AMD Xilleon processors providing excellent visual quality and interoperability across a number of high-definition digital TVs and platforms," said Dave Di Orio, corporate vice president and general manager for AMDs DTV Division. DivX video is a highly attractive feature that we believe complements AMD technology to offer real value to our DTV OEM customers and consumers. Our goal is to create a seamless media experience where consumers can enjoy high-quality video on any kind of device, and AMD is an excellent partner to help realize that vision, said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. Digital televisions are an increasingly important element of the three screens that define the digital media experience todaythe PC, the television and the mobile device, and we believe our agreement with AMD will help improve the media experience for consumers. The two companies will work together to achieve DivX Certification for specific AMD Xilleon processors. Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the visual quality users expect from DivX. About DivX DivX, Inc. is a digital media company that enables consumers to enjoy a high-quality video experience across any kind of device. DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that span the three screens comprising todays consumer media environmentthe PC, the television and mobile devices. Over 100 million DivX Certified devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers. DivX also offers content providers and publishers a complete solution for the distribution of secure, high-quality digital video content. Driven by a globally recognized brand and a passionate community of hundreds of millions of consumers, DivX is simplifying the video experience to enable the digital home. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding DivX's visibility within the investment community. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: the risk that customer use of DivX technology may not grow as anticipated; the risk that anticipated market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at all; the risk that the Companys activities may not result in the growth of profitable revenue; risks and uncertainties related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX brand; risks associated with DivX's ability to penetrate existing and new markets; risks regarding the effects of competition; DivX's dependence on its licensees and partners; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of DivX's quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 14, 2007. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. DivX is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
2008-01-02	Contract/Agreements	Leading Hardware and Software Products Simplify MLC Flash Memory Subsystem Design PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ Denali Software, Inc., a world leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced it has licensed its NAND Flash solution to AMD (NYSE: AMD), a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. Per this agreement, AMD is licensing Denali Databahn(TM) NAND Flash controller and Spectra(TM) flash file system for inclusion in next generation processors for handheld devices, providing high performance, simplified system development and low development cost benefits to handheld manufacturers. "Design requirements for handheld devices continue to become more complicated and more diverse," said Shawn Kermanchi, engineering director, AMD's Handheld Division. "We are continually looking for ways to help our OEM customers bring compelling features to market while reducing integration time, and we believe that Denali's technology can be a valuable complement to our industry leading solutions for handheld devices." Denali has agreed to license to AMD their Databahn NAND Flash controller core technology, including hardware and source code, as well as test and simulation support. Building on more than 20 years of graphics and multimedia expertise, AMD is a leading supplier of media processors to the handheld market. AMD Imageon(TM) media processors deliver outstanding 2D & 3D graphics, image processing, video encode and playback, audio and mobile TV. "An endorsement from a leading silicon provider, like AMD, is a strong testament for our NAND Flash technology," said Robert Pierce, senior director of Flash Products at Denali Software. "Denali is addressing not only the silicon resource cost but also the performance needs of hardware designers developing mobile and consumer electronics. This solution is well suited for applications that need high density memory, direct NAND boot with high performance, quality and reliability. We look forward to our technology roadmap, and enabling AMD to leverage our NAND Flash platform solution to achieve higher performance and productivity, delivering a competitive advantage to handheld manufacturers." About Denali NAND Flash System Solution The NAND Flash system from Denali is a comprehensive solution that provides NAND Flash controller IP and complete NAND Flash management software. The integrated solution provides embedded systems developers with a high performance and high reliability product for deploying NAND Flash systems for a variety of end applications. Databahn Flash controller products leverage the same silicon proven IP configuration infrastructure as the Databahn DDR controllers, which are now licensed for use in over 250 designs. About Denali Software Denali Software, Inc. is a world leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system on chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, NAND Flash and DDR DRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP and services to reduce risk and speed time to market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at http://www.denali.com. Denali and Denali Software are registered trademarks of Denali Software, Inc. Databahn and Spectra are trademarks of Denali Software, Inc. All other trademarks are of their respective owners. Editorial contact: Pierre Golde Denali Software, Inc. (650) 461 7262 pgolde@denali.com s.server=server() s.channel="news release" s.pageName="news_release_amd licenses nand flash system solution from denali for next gen

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