"ALi's and VIA's announced plans to design and produce chipsets for the AMD-K7™ processor is good news not only for AMD but also for the entire computing industry," said S. Atiq Raza, AMD co-chief operating officer and chief technical officer. "The combination of AMD's forthcoming seventh-generation processor and third-party chipsets compatible with the Alpha™ EV6 bus is planned to provide manufacturers of desktop PCs, workstations, and servers with exceptional performance."

"Next-generation processors, such as the new AMD-K7™ processor design, from alternative CPU suppliers like AMD can open the door for third-party innovation," said Dr. Chin Wu, president of ALi. "For ALi, the AMD-K7™ represents an extraordinary opportunity to innovate at the leading-edge of high-performance chipset design and to be among the first infrastructure suppliers to catch the seventh wave of microprocessor architectures."

"We welcome the opportunity to develop advanced chipset solutions for the AMD-K7™ processor," said Wen-Chi Chen, president and CEO of VIA Technologies. "Our decision to support AMD's seventh-generation microprocessor is a natural outgrowth of our longstanding relationship with AMD. We believe that the AMD-K7™ processor and optimized chipset products from VIA can set the pace for seventh-generation computing platforms."

About the AMD-K7™ Processor
The AMD-K7™ processor with 3DNow!™ technology is a Microsoft® Windows® compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a deeply pipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; a superscalar pipelined floating point unit; 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache; a programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface; and a 200 MHz Alpha™ EV6 compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing. The AMD-K7™ processor is slated for introduction in the first half of 1999 and is planned to operate at clock frequencies greater than 500 MHz.

About ALi
ALi (Acer Laboratories Inc.), founded in 1987, is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with its North American/European operations out of its office in San Jose, California. Since its establishment, ALi has provided highly integrated, cost-effective and innovative IC products to support personal computer system and subsystem manufacturers. ALi is not only one of the world's oldest and largest system core logic manufacturers but is also a world-class provider of other PC peripheral products, such as graphics and multimedia chips, Super I/O controllers, and CD-ROM controllers. ALi is capable of developing a wide range of products to support a variety of CPUs, including the x86 families up through 64-bit CPUs, such as the Pentium® Pro, Pentium, M1, M2, AMD-K6, and AMD-K6-2 processors, as well as the industry-standard buses. The company employs 388 people and expects revenues of $130 million in 1998.

About VIA
Founded in 1987, VIA Technologies, Inc. is the PC industry's second largest core logic chipset supplier. VIA independently designs, engineers and manufactures cost-effective, highly integrated, high functionality system logic chip sets and associated peripherals for manufacturers of desktop and portable PC systems. VIA is on the world wide web at http://www.via.com.tw.

Cautionary Statement
Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements of management's expectations involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.

Any forward-looking statement about the AMD-K7™ processor involves risks and uncertainties including whether the company will be able to introduce the AMD-K7™ processor in accordance with its current schedule; the company will be able to produce the AMD-K7™ processor at speed grades greater than 500 MHz; and third-party infrastructure suppliers will deliver timely chipset solutions for the AMD-K7™ processor. Investors are urged to consult the risks and uncertainties detailed in the company reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.