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AMD Recognizes Exemplary Performance of Seven Suppliers at 2013 AMD Global Supplier Day

2013-05-14 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the winners of its 2013 AMD Supplier Excellence Award honored at the company’s 2013 Supplier Day event in Austin. The companies recognized exhibited a strong depth of knowledge of AMD’s business as well as a demonstrated ability to perform at the highest level based on the specifi...

AMD Introduces the World’s Fastest Notebook Graphics Card

2013-05-15 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD Radeon™ HD 8970M, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card¹. The AMD Radeon HD 8970M graphics processing unit (GPU) delivers the best mobile gaming experience imaginable to gamers, powered by AMD’s award-winning AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of servers based on its AMD Open 3.0 specification, defined as part of the Open Compute Project, delivering workload versatility and performance equal to competing proprietary OEM servers at significantly lower cost. In comparison to benchmarks running virtual desktop...

AMD Announces Memory Series Designed with Gamers in Mind

2013-05-08 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD Radeon™ RG2133 Gamer Series Memory and Radeon™ RAMDisk 4.1. AMD Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series Memory is the only memory on the market that offers both XMP and AMP memory profiles in one package, enabling ultimate ease...

AMD Boosts Quality and Performance of New, Enhanced Features of Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC through Open Standards

2013-05-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced at Adobe MAX new and improved accelerated features for Adobe^® Photoshop^®CC and Adobe Premiere^® Pro CC. The introduction of the all-new Smart Sharpen feature and recently updated Blur Gallery and Liquify effects rein...

AMD Announces Commencement of Exchange Offer for its 7.50% Senior Notes due 2022 for Registered Notes

2013-05-03 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that it has commenced a registered exchange offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding 7.50% Senior Notes due 2022, which were issued in a private placement (the “Private Notes,”) for an equal principal amount of new 7.50% Senior Notes due 2022 that have been registered unde...

AMD to Create Tailored Products Integrating Customer-Specific IP through Semi-Custom Business Unit

2013-05-02 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today a strategic focus on developing one-of-a-kind solutions through its Semi-Custom Business Unit based on the extensive set of intellectual property (IP) amassed across AMD processors, graphics and multimedia. Providing to customers a level of flexibility and differentiation that goe...

AMD to Present at J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference

2013-04-25 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Server Business Unit Andrew Feldman will present at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference at 9:20 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Boston.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relatio...

AMD Unleashes the World’s Fastest Graphics Card

2013-04-24 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990, the world’s fastest graphics card¹, designed for gamers who want to take their PC gaming experience to the highest level. Based on award-winning AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its AMD Developer Summit 2013, called “APU13,” will be held Nov. 11-14, 2013 in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. The company’s third annual developer summit is ex...

AMD to Present at Jefferies 2013 Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference

2013-04-23 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster will present at the Jefferies 2013 Global Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in New York.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage...

AMD Targets High-Growth, Embedded Markets with New AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip

2013-04-23 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the AMD next-generation “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon™ 8000 Series graphics. The new AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform further signifi...

AMD Welcomes Raja Koduri as Corporate Vice President, Visual Computing

2013-04-22 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Raja Koduri, 44, has rejoined the company as corporate vice president, Visual Computing, reporting to Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer. In his new role,...

AMD Reports 2013 First Quarter Results

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Q1 2013 Results

AMD revenue $1.09 billion, decreased 6 percent sequentially and 31 percent year-over-year
Gross margin 41 percent
Operating loss of $98 million, net loss of $146 million, loss per share of $0.19
Non-GAAP¹ operating loss of $46 million, net loss of $94 mi...

AMD Named a Top Corporate Citizen by Corporate Responsibility Magazine

2013-04-16 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) has been named by Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine to its list of the “100 Best Corporate Citizens.” CR Magazine compiles this list to encourage greater corporate accountability and responsibility and to showcase companies who are on the...

AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Opteron-based Servers with OpenStack Help Scientists and Scholars Conduct Cutting Edge Research at UTSA

2013-04-11 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has deployed SeaMicro SM15000-OP™ servers with a combined 1,024 AMD Opteron™ processor cores in 20 rack units (35 inches of space). These servers are the foundational infrastructure for a new computing...

AMD and Adobe Collaborate on Upcoming Version of Adobe Premiere Pro Software to Enable Breakthrough Video Editing Performance through Open Standards

2013-04-05 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with Adobe Systems Incorporated to deliver OpenCL™ hardware-accelerated video editing for the first time on the Microsoft Windows platform with the next version of Adobe® Premiere® Pro. This AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the AMD Foundation has been named a 2013 Laureate of the International Data Group's (IDG) Computerworld Hon...

AMD Delivers Unified Gaming Strategy at GDC 2013

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) AMD (NYSE: AMD) unveiled its leadership strategy for the worldwide gaming market. AMD’s Unified Gaming Strategy comprehensively addresses how AMD will drive the gaming market across consoles, cloud platforms, tablets and PCs. By working with the world’s leading hardw...

AMD Closes Transaction to Sell and Lease-back Austin Campus, Generating Approximately $164 Million in Cash

2013-03-26 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the successful closing of its transaction with 7171 Southwest Parkway Holdings, LP to sell and lease-back the company’s “Lone Star Campus” located at 7171 Southwest Parkway in Austin, Texas. The transaction generated proceeds of approximately $164 million in cash, net of all fees,...

AMD To Report Fiscal First Quarter Results On April 18, 2013

2013-03-20 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. PDT to discuss the results of its fiscal first quarter ending March 30, 2013. All interested parties will have the opportunity to listen to the real-time audio webcast of the teleconference over the...

AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Achieves Certification for CDH4, Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop Version 4

2013-03-20 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the SeaMicro SM15000™ server is now certified for CDH4, Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop® Version 4. AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 server, which can deliver up to 512 processor cores and ov...

AMD Collaborates with Aviary to Bring APU-Optimized Photo Editing Application to Windows 8

2013-03-18 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a collaboration with Aviary to bring an optimized version of its popular photo editing tool to Windows^® 8 PCs and tablets powered by AMD accelerated processing units (APUs). Backed by an inves...

New AMD A-Series APU Offers Mobile PC Users Innovative Experiences, Elite Graphics Performance and Longer Battery Life

2013-03-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the first availability of the AMD Elite A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), codenamed “Richland.” The new AMD Elite A-Series APUs deliver innovative user experiences like facial log-in and gesture recognition, improved graphics1 and compute performance2 over the previous...

AMD Executes Purchase Agreement to Sell and Lease Back Austin Campus, Expected to Generate Approximately $164 Million in Cash

2013-03-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell and lease-back its “Lone Star Campus” located at 7171 Southwest Parkway in Austin, Texas to 7171 Southwest Parkway Holdings, LP, an affiliate entity of real estate investment company Spear Street Capital. Upon closing, net of all fees,...

AMD and Crystal Dynamics Collaboration Thrusts Gamers into One of the Most Realistic PC Gaming Experiences Ever with the Launch of “Tomb Raider”

2013-03-05 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a collaboration with Crystal Dynamics™ following the launch of “Tomb Raider,” one of the most highly anticipated PC games of 2013, and part of the AMD Gaming Evolved program. AMD and Crystal Dynamics worked together extensively on the development of “AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Red 5 Studios, developer of free-to-play online games designed to connect millions of players around the world, has deployed an AMD SeaMicro server with the SeaMic...

Martin L. Edelman Appointed to AMD Board of Directors

2013-02-26 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Martin Edelman has been appointed to the company’s board of directors...

AMD Launches the AMD FirePro R5000 Remote Graphics Card for Deployment in Data Centers

2013-02-25 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of the AMD FirePro™ R5000 remote graphics card, a flexible, manageable solution designed and engineered to power remote 3D-graphics workflows and full computing experiences o...

AMD Aims to Meet Higher Expectations for Tablet and Hybrid PC Performance at Mobile World Congress 2013

2013-02-20 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD), creator of the performance tablet category, today announced a new innovation for hybrid PCs that delivers uncompromised mobile PC experiences when in tablet mode or when connected to its base keyboard. Hybrid PCs are a new market segment between full notebooks and pure tablets that AMD plans to...

AMD and Crytek Energize the PC Gaming Industry with the Launch of “Crysis 3”

2013-02-19 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the North American launch of its Gaming Evolved title “Crysis 3". Working closely with Crytek, elite AMD engineers optimized “Cry...

AMD Wins Big at PR Daily's 2012 Digital PR and Social Media Awards

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Last month, AMD (NYSE: AMD) was awarded eight top honors at PR Daily’s annual Digital PR and Social Media Awards, recognizing the company’s marketing and communications teams for executing innovative programs to increase awareness for AMD solutions.

The awards included ‘Social M...

Livestream Doubles Computing Density with AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Server

2013-02-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Livestream, the company that connects millions of people over the Internet to live events, has deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ server with S...

AMD Names Bernd Lienhard as Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Client Business

2013-02-05 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Bernd Lienhard, 48, has joined the company as corporate vice president and general manager of its Client Business Unit, reporting to Dr. Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager, Global Business Units. In his role, Lienhard will apply his 22 years of experience in t...

Wayfair E-retailer Accelerates Development and Capabilities with AMD’s SeaMicro Server

2013-02-05 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced e-Commerce leader Wayfair, the largest online retailer of home products and furnishings, has deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM10000-XE™ server to foster gro...

AMD Kick Starts 2013 with the Ultimate “Gaming Evolved” Game Partnerships and “Never Settle: Reloaded” Bundle Program

2013-02-04 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of its “Never Settle: Reloaded” game bundle, the sequel to last year’s monumental “Never Settle” bundle. “Never Settle: Reloaded” delivers by bundling up to four of this year’s most anticipated PC games ─ “BioShock®...

AMD to Present at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference

2013-01-31 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read will present at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference at 1:55 p.m. PST on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 in San Francisco.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage: AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server is certified for the Rackspace® Private Cloud. “Nova in a Box” and “Swift in a Rack” are respectively the most efficient compute and highest storage capacity solutions validated for OpenStack®. The AMD (NYSE: AMD) was awarded two Eggies at Newegg’s second annual Eggie Awards on Jan. 10, 2013 at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. AMD won Best Merchandising Campaign for its unique “

GizmoSphere Launches an AMD APU-based Gizmo Board for Embedded Systems Inventors and Hobbyists

2013-01-24 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the newly launched Gizmo board, a low-cost board geared toward x86-based embedded system development available from GizmoSphere, is powered by an AMD Embed...

AMD to Present at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference

2013-01-23 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that senior vice president and chief sales officer John Byrne will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference at 10:20 a.m. PST on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in San Francisco.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage: AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Charles Matar and Wayne Meretsky have joined the company to assume critical new engineering leadership roles driving hardware and software intellectual property (IP) development for AMD’s system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. Matar will draw upon his expertise in SoC and processor...

AMD Reports 2012 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results

2013-01-22 00:00:00

Q4 2012 Results

AMD revenue $1.16 billion, decreased 9 percent sequentially and 32 percent year-over-year
Gross margin 15 percent, non-GAAP¹ gross margin 39 percent
Operating loss of $422 million, net loss of $473 million, loss per share of...

AMD Open 3.0 Brings Simplicity, Power Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness to the Data Center

2013-01-16 00:00:00

OPEN COMPUTE SUMMIT - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today is launching the AMD Open 3.0 platform (formerly codenamed “Roadrunner,”) a radical rethinking of the server motherboard designed to the standards developed by the Open Compute Project. AMD Open 3.0 enables substantial gains in computing flexibility, e...

AMD Delivers Enhanced Gaming and Improved Application Performance with Latest Mobile and Desktop Graphics Technology

2013-01-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs) set to deliver discrete graphics performance to a variety of notebook designs, including the incredibly portable ultrathin form factor. The AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series are the first notebook GPUs to be offere...

AMD Unveils Innovative New APUs and SoCs that Give Consumers a More Exciting and Immersive Experience

2013-01-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD), a leading provider of technology that enables visually-rich experiences for today’s consumers, provided an early look at its new 2013 accelerated processing units (APUs) and announced a new OEM relationship with VIZIO. At an International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event, AMD demonstrated w...

Industry Veteran Roy Taylor Joins AMD To Lead Global Channel Sales

2013-01-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Roy Taylor has joined the company as corporate vice president and head of Global Channel Sales, reporting to Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer John Byrne. In this role, Taylor will b...

AMD to Host News Conference at 2013 Consumer Electronics Show

2013-01-03 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) will provide a live video webcast of its news conference at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to be held Jan. 7, 2013 at 4 p.m. PT. The conference will demonstrate a range of attractive, high-performance mobile computing and gaming systems reflective of the company’s longer-term strategy t...

AMD Names Devinder Kumar Chief Financial Officer

2013-01-02 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that after a thorough internal and external search the company has appointed Devinder Kumar as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Jan. 2, 2013. Kumar, 57, will report to Rory Read, AMD president and chief executive officer, and will have responsibility fo...

AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES

2012-12-06 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it successfully amended its Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.

The closure of amendment negotiations solidifies AMD’s new operating model as communicated at the third quarter 2012 earnings announcement.

To better align with today’s PC mark...

AMD and Ubisoft Collaborate to Deliver the Ultimate Far Cry 3 PC Gaming Experience

2012-12-04 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with Ubisoft® to support the highly anticipated next chapter in the “Far Cry” franchise, “Far Cry 3®,” launching today in North America. Developed in conjunction with the AMD Gaming Evolved program, “Far Cry 3” is fully optimized for a premium PC gaming experience, harnessing the power of AMD Ra...

New AMD Opteron 4300 and 3300 Series Processors Deliver Ideal Performance, Power and Price for Cloud Applications

2012-12-04 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled nine new mid-range and entry-level AMD Opteron™ 4300 Series and 3300 Series server processors increasing performance per watt versus the previous generation to maximize compute capabilities in power-constrained environments¹, while delivering outstanding value to cloud p...

AMD Paves Ease-of-Programming Path to Heterogeneous System Architecture with New APP SDK 2.8 and Unified Developer Tool Suite

2012-12-04 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of the AMD APP SDK 2.8 and the AMD CodeXL uni...

AMD Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Symmetry Electronics for Embedded Products

2012-11-28 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a new global distribution agreement with Symmetry Electronics, a distribution leader in the embedded market which includes digital signage, industrial control, automotive, manufacturing and machine-to-machine technol...

AMD Powers Brilliant HD Game and Video Performance for Nintendo’s Wii U

2012-11-16 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is proud to support Nintendo’s newly launched Wii U home console as the supplier of custom AMD Radeon™ HD GPU technology. As announced at E3 in 2011, the custom-for-Nintendo AMD graphics processor enables Wii U to provide exciting, immersive game play, brilliant HD video...

AMD FirePro Server Graphics Redefining Supercomputing Performance through Power Efficient, Sustainable Technology

2012-11-14 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) has collaborated with the University of Frankfurt’s Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) to deliver a new standard in power-efficient supercomputing with the SANAM supercomputer, securing the number two ranking on the latest Green500™ Lis...

AMD and the National Academy of Engineering Recognize Engineering Programs with Real-World Relevance

2012-11-13 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced the release of ‘Infusing Real World Experiences into Engineering Education’, a compilation of engineering programs at colle...

AMD Receives HPCwire Readers’ Choice and Editors’ Choice Awards

2012-11-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today it has been recognized as a leader in high performance computing (HPC), receiving two awards from HPCwire: a Readers’ Choice Award for ‘Best HPC Collaboration between Governmen...

AMD Delivers Massive Compute Performance for World’s Top Ranked Supercomputer

2012-11-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today demonstrated its ongoing support for high performance computing by providing massive compute capability, performance and flexibility for the world’s number one ranked supercomp...

AMD Introduces Industry’s Most Powerful Server Graphics Card

2012-11-12 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD FirePro™ S10000, the industry’s most powerful server graphics card, designed for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and graphics intensive applications. The AMD FirePro...

AMD Appoints Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi to Board of Directors

2012-11-08 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi has been appointed to the company’s board of directors as a second representative of Mubadala Development Company. Yahia currently serves as executive director of

New AMD Opteron 6300 Series Processors Deliver the Winning Solution for Virtualized Data Centers and High Performance Computing Clusters

2012-11-05 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled its new AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series server processors based on its next-generation “Piledriver” core architecture. The new AMD Opteron processors deliver superior performance and...

AMD Changes Compute Landscape as the First to Bridge Both x86 and ARM Processors for the Data Center

2012-10-29 00:00:00

In a bold strategic move, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that it will design 64-bit ARM® technology-based processors in addition to its x86 processors for multiple markets, starting with cloud and data center servers. AMD’s first ARM...

AMD Powers Superior Windows 8 Experience Across More Than 125 PC Designs

2012-10-25 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corp. for more than 125 Windows® 8-based PC designs from leading OEMs including ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and more. With a AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read, and Senior Vice President and General Manager Global Business Units Lisa Su will host a news conference to provide updates and more detail on the company’s AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced an update to the Guinness World Record-setting¹ AMD FX family of central processing units (CPUs) that continues the brand’s history of delivering a fully unlocked and customizable experience for performance...

New AMD Tablet APU Lands in Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q572

2012-10-22 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that its AMD Z-60 accelerated processing unit (APU) powers the new Fujitsu STYLISTIC® Q572 10.1” tablet, providing quality and performance to professionals on the move. The combination of processor and system design provides users with portability, Windows® comp...

AMD “Never Settle” Program Gives Gamers the Hottest Games and the Best Experience for the Holiday Season

2012-10-22 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of its “Never Settle” Bundle, which packages this holiday season’s biggest PC gaming titles, including “Far Cry 3”...

AMD Recognized For Exemplary Corporate Responsibility with Listings on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and the FTSE4Good Index Series

2012-10-22 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the eighth consecutive year. The company has also been added to the AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Citrix Systems, Inc. has verified the new AMD SeaMicro SM15000-XE™ micro server as Citrix Ready® to run Citrix XenServer® 6

AMD Reports Third Quarter Results and Announces Restructuring

2012-10-18 00:00:00

Q3 2012 Results

AMD revenue $1.27 billion, 10 percent sequential decrease and a 25 percent decrease year-over-year
Net loss $157 million, loss per share $0.21, operating loss $131 million
Non-GAAP⁷ net loss $150 million, loss per share $0....

AMD Announces Preliminary Third Quarter Results

2012-10-11 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that revenue for the third quarter ended September 29, 2012 is expected to decrease approximately 10 percent sequentially. The company previously forecasted third quarter 2012 revenue to decrease 1 percent, plus or minus 3 percent, s...

Silicon Valley Leadership Group Selects AMD to Host 2012 Data Center Efficiency Summit

2012-10-10 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will host the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s fifth annual Data Center Efficiency Summit on Oct. 24 at AMD headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Thanks to AMD's efforts to reduce data center power with...

New AMD Z-Series APU for Tablets Enables Immersive Experience for Upcoming Microsoft Windows® 8 Platforms

2012-10-09 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced its latest entry in the performance tablet and small form factor PC market with the AMD Z-60 Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The AMD Z-60 is AMD’s lowest power APU, delivering unprecedented performance and AMD AllDay™ power fo...

AMD-based HP Servers Shatter Performance Record by 40 Percent

2012-10-09 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that a cluster of HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 servers utilizing AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors has achieved the highest VMmark® 2.1 score ever posted, representing a 40 percent increase over the next best score. VMmark is VMware’s popular multi-server benchmarking tool that measu...

New AMD A-Series Processors Bring Faster Speeds, High Core Count and AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Graphics to Do-It-Yourself PC Enthusiasts and Gamers

2012-10-02 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced retail and distribution channel availability of its second generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for desktop, small form-factor and home theater PCs. These new APUs target do-it-yourself (DIY) PC builders, mai...

AMD and Oracle to Collaborate in the OpenJDK Community to Explore Heterogeneous Computing for Java

2012-10-01 00:00:00

During the JavaOne™ 2012 Strategy Keynote, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced its participation in OpenJDK™ Project “Sumatra” in collaboration with Oracle and other members of the OpenJDK community to help bring heter...

AMD AppZone Brings Graphics-Accelerated Windows and Android Apps to PCs Worldwide

2012-09-27 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the launch of AMD AppZone, an online showcase for applications and games accelerated by AMD Radeon™ graphics processing units (GPUs) and AMD accelerated processing units (APUs). In addition to featuring some of the most recognizable PC game...

AMD Third Quarter 2012 Results To Be Announced On October 18, 2012

2012-09-18 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. PDT to discuss the results of its fiscal third quarter ended September 29, 2012. All interested parties will have the opportunity to listen to the real-time audio webcast of the teleconference ov...

AMD Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition

2012-09-17 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Thomas Seifert informed the company of his decision to resign as senior vice president and chief financial officer to pursue other opportunities. Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and corporate controller, will serve as interim chief financial officer while a search commences for Mr. Seifert’s replacemen...

AMD Announces Support for RealD's BlueLine Technology; Addresses Rapid Market Adoption of 3D DLP Projectors with AMD FirePro Graphics

2012-09-11 00:00:00

Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced it has entered into a strategic licensing agreement with RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD), which will pair AMD FirePro™ professional graphics with RealD's patented Bl...

AMD Delivers a New Generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon "Ivy Bridge" Processors in its New SeaMicro SM15000 Micro Server Chassis

2012-09-10 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of three pioneering innovations that firmly cement the company as the leader in fabric computing, micro servers and data center technology. The first innovation is a new chassis, AMD's SeaMicro SM15000™ server, which extends fabric-based computing across racks and aisles of the...

AMD Extends Leadership in Data Center Innovation - First to Optimize the Micro Server for Big Data

2012-09-10 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the SeaMicro SM15000™ server, another computing innovation from its Data Center Server Solutions (DCSS) group that cements its position as the technology leader in the micro server category. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server revolutionizes computing with the invention of Freedom™ Fabric Storage, whic...

AMD Invests in CiiNOW to Usher in Next Era of Cloud-Based Gaming

2012-09-11 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an investment in CiiNOW, a provider of cloud gaming technology that enables game publishers, retailers and carriers to tap into the growing video game market expected to reach $81 billion by 2016¹. AMD, through

AMD Enables Efficient and Cost-Effective Solutions on Windows Server 2012

2012-09-04 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has worked closely with Microsoft throughout the Windows Server 2012 development process to deliver an exceptional server solution powered by its award-winning AMD Opteron™ processors. AMD Opteron processors are ideally s...

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Outlines Vision for “Surround Computing,” Bringing an Era of Personalized, Adaptive and Responsive Environments to Consumers

2012-08-28 00:00:00

In a keynote address opening the prestigious annual Hot Chips symposium, AMD (NYSE: AMD) CTO Mark Papermaster delivered a vision for the coming “Surround Computing Era,” and unveiled new processor architecture details which will enable technologies and desig...

AMD Hires John Gustafson as Chief Graphics Product Architect

2012-08-28 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that the visionary behind Gustafson’s Law, John Gustafson, has joined the company as senior fellow and chief product architect, Graphics Business Unit. In this role, Gustafson will set the technical vision for the AM...

AMD Appoints Jack Harding to Board of Directors

2012-08-29 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Jack Harding has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Harding currently serves as president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that virtualization environments running on AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers offer superior price/performance while reducing capital expense (cap-ex) by up to 30 percent¹ versus comparable solutions. The findings, based on recently AMD) today launched the AMD FirePro™ S9000 and S7000, the industry’s most powerful dual- and single-slot server...

AMD and San Francisco Giants Invite Fans to Experience the AMD Fast Pitch PC Zone at AT&T Park

2012-08-24 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) and the San Francisco Giants invite baseball and technology fans alike to experience the AMD Fast Pitch PC Zone on Sunday, September 9th at AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that AMD corporate vice president Darren Grasby will lead the company's sales efforts in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, reporting to AMD chief sales officer John Byrne.

"One of my top priorities is to help AMD's sales organization make faster decisions, champion th...

Olympics Beats the Final Frontier for Social Mentions

2012-08-14 00:00:00

(NYSE: AMD) – With 54,455,926 social mentions through the closing ceremonies, the Olympics dominated space explorer Mars Curiosity and other major world news over the last couple of weeks, as evidenced by the amount of social shares according to data from social sharing platform AddThis, the...

AMD Appoints John Byrne Chief Sales Officer

2012-08-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that John Byrne, AMD general manger of Global Accounts, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief sales officer effective immediately. In this role, Byrne assumes responsibility for ensuring that AMD’s worldwide sales organization remains responsive to customer needs wh...

Michael Phelps and Gabby Douglas Win Gold in Social Media Mentions Halfway Through the Olympics

2012-08-07 00:00:00

(NYSE: AMD) – With 1,060,938 social mentions through Sunday, the first graphic shows that American swimmer Michael Phelps is the most popular athlete in social media discussions online mid-way through the 2012 Olympics, as evidenced by the amount of social shares according to data from AddThis. AddThis is the world's largest social sharing platf...

AMD to Present at Citi Technology Conference

2012-08-07 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read will present at the Citi Technology Conference 9:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 in New York City.

A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepage: http://ir.amd.com<...

AMD Launches First-Ever AMD FirePro™ APU Providing a Powerful Integrated Visual Computing Platform for CAD and Media and Entertainment Workflows

2012-08-07 00:00:00

Today AMD (NYSE: AMD) launched the AMD FirePro™ A300 Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for entry-level and mainstream desktop workstations. Featuring AMD Eyefinity multi-displa...

AMD Launches World’s Most Powerful Workstation Graphics Line - Provides Unmatched Improvements in Productivity and Workflow

2012-08-07 00:00:00

Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) launched its latest line of workstation graphics, leading with the AMD FirePro™ W9000 Graphics Processing Unit- the most powerful workstation graphics card ever created¹. The AMD FirePro™ W9000 GPU f...

AMD Announces Pricing of Private Offering of $500 Million of Senior Notes

2012-08-06 00:00:00

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has agreed to sell $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.50% Senior Notes due 2022 in a private offering. AMD intends to close the transaction on or around August 15, 2012. AMD estimates that the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the senior notes will be approximately $491 million after...

AMD Announces Private Offering of $300 Million of Senior Notes

2012-08-06 00:00:00

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it intends to commence a private offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2022. AMD intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and working capital, which may include the following: (i) the rep...