| SAS |
| "We run numerous platforms because our applications support nine different operating systems, but for R&D [Research and Development] Build Systems we run on the AMD Opteron™ processor because of its excellent price/performance. AMD has an outstanding CPU to memory interface for exceptional system performance while also being extremely energy efficient. This lets us run a tight ship and helps ensure our applications get to market on time and on budget." |
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| CyberTrader |
| "Our challenge is to stay ahead of our clients’ demands in terms of speed, capacity and reliability. To remain competitive, firms must be able to manage exponentially increasing amounts of data and deliver it to clients in the most efficient means possible. With the AMD Opteron™ processor, we believe we have one of the industry’s most rapid, reliable and available systems capable of providing real-time information and trade execution services with the utmost reliability and speed." |
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| VistaPrint |
| "The cost/performance and performance-per-watt benefits of the AMD Opteron™ processor helped us realize massive cost savings: in addition to not having to build a new data center, we are seeing a marked reduction in power and cooling bills. We are also able to more easily and affordably scale to meet our customers’ needs. AMD’s innovations have brought such terrific value to VistaPrint™ that I am eagerly anticipating the company’s upcoming quad-core options." |
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| Allianz Global Investors |
| "Since implementing the AMD Opteron™ processor-based virtualization solution, we have avoided substantial capital expenditures, improved server roll-out time from weeks to days, and can add new services and applications without increasing headcount or reducing reliability." |
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| ProQuest CSA |
| "The AMD Opteron™ processor allows us to conduct complex computing with fewer and much more efficient servers, thereby reducing power and cooling, as well as data center space, requirements. Combine these facts and we were able to increase our computing capacity while saving the company a substantial amount in IT spending. Needless to say, this is IT making a real difference at ProQuest CSA." |
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| FTD, Inc |
| "By switching to the AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, we realized a greater total cost of ownership savings per unit than expected—savings we imagined only in our wildest dreams. We can pass those savings to our customers, making our point of sale (POS) systems much more affordable to our florists, large and small. And as a company, we anticipate recouping significant revenue this year as the affordability of the new system should increase sales." |
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| McDonald's McInternet |
| "McInternet is fast becoming synonymous with access to the World Wide Web in the country, as it has unlocked access to information, online services and global communication for so many." |
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| STMicroelectronics |
| "AMD and Sun Microsystems always understand our objectives and recommend appropriate solutions. The Sun Grid, established with AMD Opteron™ processor-based Sun Fire™ V20z servers, offers both 32- and 64-bit computing capability and improves the throughput for our 64-bit applications. The high I/O bandwidth provided by this solution has also dramatically improved our overall performance.
" |
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| Marathon Oil Corporation |
| "The AMD Opteron™ processor has proven to be highly complementary to our operations," said Dr. Tom R. Evans, Senior Technical Consultant, Seismic and System Services, Marathon Oil Corporation. "For instance, we can process our seismic data up to four times faster at one-third the cost—and deal with the rapidly increasing volume of data and the complexity of problems to be solved. This has directly contributed to Marathon completing successful wells, particularly in our Oklahoma program. " |
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| NCsoft |
| "The AMD Opteron™ processor helped launch Lineage® II, City of Heroes® and City of Villains® online video games with astounding success. By supporting tens of thousands of simultaneous users with zero server downtime, AMD64 helped place both games among the most popular Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and grow our total customer base in our western territories to nearly six million. In addition, AMD’s technological power is complemented by the industry’s best price/performance and performance-per-watt — allowing NCsoft® to take a leadership position in the competitive MMOG market without paying a hefty IT ransom." |
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| Philadelphia Stock Exchange |
| "AMD is defying the laws of physics. Usual rules dictate that the faster the chip, the hotter the room and, therefore, more electricity is needed to keep the data center cool," said Gene Peters, director, Information Services, Philadelphia Stock Exchange. "But with AMD64 we are able to process nearly five times faster while reducing both space and energy costs." |
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| Canadian Football League |
| "The powerful combination of Sun and AMD, as envisioned by Scalar Decisions, was able to help us roll out new interactive services to our ever-increasing fan base. The AMD Opteron™ processor-based Sun Fire™ x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers are also ideal for our virtualized environment, allowing us to better manage our servers in an affordable and energy-efficient solution," said Chris Sonnemann, senior project manager, Canadian Football League. "And we can rest easy knowing Scalar, with its exceptional expertise, is managing the system so we can focus on creating new activities for our fans." |
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| Susquehanna International Group (SIG) |
| "“We execute hundreds of thousands of trades per day — volume that could tax a sub-par infrastructure. We use AMD Opteron™ processors and AMD Athlon™ processors because they offer competitive advantage through price, performance and energy efficiencies. Since implementing AMD’s innovations, we have experienced up to a 90 percent increase in performance and a 40 percent reduction in energy consumption in our servers, workstations and desktops — all at significantly less cost than our previous systems.”" |
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| arvato systems |
| "We selected AMD Opteron™ processors primarily because of their value and exceptional performance when running 64-bit SAP applications and their value. Secondarily, but equally important, we chose AMD for its ability to deliver a highly available platform based on industry standards. We believe that AMD’s unique Direct Connect Architecture will allow us to introduce new services for our customers more rapidly and cost-effectively without sacrificing the performance of our existing applications.
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| Commerzbank North America |
| "Although we consolidated our servers we dramatically increased our availability. With the AMD Opteron™ processor and Egenera® BladeFrame™ system we reduced floor space by 60 percent and dramatically improved efficiency while increasing capacity three-fold. In addition, we now have a flexible solution to help us rapidly roll out new, in-demand services to our customers while maintaining almost perfect availability of our other applications." |
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| Blue Cross |
| "We were basically out of space in our data center but we still required additional servers to help us introduce new applications to better serve our customers and meet ongoing compliance standards," says Jim Slick, manager, Network Services, Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. "A VMware® virtualization solution with the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor allowed us to nearly double our server images within the same physical space, providing the same if not better performance, without incurring high costs or increased energy consumption." |
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| Layered Technologies |
| "By being the first to introduce new technologies like backwards compatible x86 64-bit computing and dual-core processors, AMD has helped us put our ‘money where our mouth is’. And this has led to our success in maintaining and growing our customer base," says Michael Platner, chief executive officer, Layered Technologies. "AMD’s innovations have been widely embraced by our ‘tech enablers’ and therefore have improved their businesses. As such, AMD has been instrumental in building our brand and tripling our business." |
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| Data Return |
| "The Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor combines pure, enterprise-class processing with scalable economics — an unusual feat in today’s market. By implementing a virtualization solution based on AMD64 technology, we have created a highly available and flexible environment with outstanding price/performance and performance-per-watt gains, which has allowed us to improve service and expand our customer base." |
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| WhaBAM |
| "Our motto is ‘the searching stops here’ and for us to make that claim we need the most powerful infrastructure available without breaking our budget. With the AMD Opteron™ processor, we feel confident our customers can Search, Auction and ‘Reverse Want Auction’: All 5x faster and at 75 percent less cost than our previous system." |
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| FlightAware |
| "We track and deliver information regarding 40 to 70 thousand flights each day, so our infrastructure needed to be up to the task. Additionally, we required a plan for future growth as well as unexpected spikes in usage. The AMD Opteron™ processor has helped ensure we can deliver critical speed and reliability to our customers, all at a ‘budget-friendly’ price." |
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| Transcoding |
| "We’re seeing dramatic growth in the number of customers choosing the AMD Opteron processor as they recognize the price/performance benefit of the technology." |
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| Singtel |
| "At the same time, in a region known for high energy costs and scant office space, EXPAN has to provide this extraordinary level of performance as economically as possible. “In the Asia Pacific region, price is always a big issue,” says Mr. Chiam, Deputy Director, Singtel Expan. “The challenge is to provide customers with just the right balance of performance, scalability, reliability, and cost." |
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| Massey University |
| "It was an easy decision to go with AMD. The AMD Opteron processor gave us a 20 to 40 percent increase in performance compared to other processors. " |
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| Grupo Clarín |
| "Even when important news or major sports events impact our readers and drive increased traffic to our Web sites, we see no loss in performance. This is critically important to the experience we deliver to our users." |
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| Cray, Inc. |
| "We began the schematics in May of 2003 and had a working prototype for public demonstration in mid-November of 2003. This is practically unheard of in the server market." |
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| Trader Media Group |
| "The AMD Opteron™ processor offers outstanding powerful computing capacity and investment protection and is the price/performance leader. In addition to meeting scalability requirements for today, we can rest assured we can easily leverage the AMD Opteron processor to meet tomorrow’s needs. Also, the reliability provided by the Sun Microsystems’ Sun Fire™ servers powered with the AMD Opteron processor gives us a competitive advantage, providing our customers rapid results of their searches around the clock." |
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| Ciena Corporation |
| "Due to production schedules and market requirements, we wouldn’t have been able to deliver our latest chip if we didn’t have the performance of the AMD Opteron processor, said Steven Rennick, lead network systems engineer, Ciena Corporation." |
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| Unicamp |
| "We tested different hardware options and chose AMD for the high-performance AMD Opteron™ processor and the fact that it enables the ability to run both 32- and 64-bit software, as well as the company’s clear, precise information on processor code optimization. AMD provides the best price/performance solution in the market." |
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| Friendster |
| "AMD Opteron processor-powered systems delivered a threefold increase in performance, allowing us to more than double our customer base in less than a year. Moving to a 64-bit environment has been a key factor in our continued success." |
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| QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies |
| "At the end of the day, it all boils down to how fast we can push the jobs through the computing environment in order to take advantage of the substantial investments made in the EDA software licenses. In this area, the AMD64 platform provides the best CPU performance." |
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| Luminetik |
| "Major studios typically use hundreds of processors to create big-budget animated films. We have found that we can do the same activities such as performance capture and CG-tests with ten AMD Opteron™ processor-powered systems. The AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture provides a studio solution and is competitive in both price and performance." |
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| AISO |
| "We worked closely with AMD to create the most energy-efficient solution available. Now that we have replaced our previous processors with the AMD Opteron™ processor, we don’t put off nearly the heat so we have conserved energy and saved money by not needing as many cooling systems and solar panels." |
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| Magma |
| "With the right combination of computing performance, memory accessibility and scalability, the AMD Opteron™ processor provides a fast, high-capacity 64-bit platform. When coupled with Magma's advanced software, IC designers can accelerate the design and analysis of the complex semiconductors that are the core of today’s sophisticated electronics." |
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| Bell Helicopter |
| "The AMD Opteron™ processor with AMD64 technology was very compelling for us, because it allows us to boost the performance of our current 32-bit applications and simultaneously prepare to migrate to 64-bit technology when we are ready. This is a very alluring aspect of AMD64 technology." |
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| Sabre Holdings |
| "We first decided to look at the AMD Opteron™ processor in part because it was competitively priced, and our hope was that the processor’s performance would be at least as good as that of our existing systems. However, we were blown away by the performance, finding that it significantly exceeded our expectations." |
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| Microsoft Treasury |
| "Securing greater memory utilization for our Barra 32-bit application by switching to AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems and Microsoft’s® public Beta version of Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for 64-bit Extended Systems, gave us performance gains without having to recompile a single line of code." |
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| University of Houston |
| "With the strengths found in the AMD64 platform, we greatly enhance our ability to contribute new insights in leading-edge national research initiatives and to serve university educational needs. We chose AMD Opteron processors because they met our performance requirements, and our experience with AMD’s reliability has been tremendous. AMD processor-based computers have been serving as the workhorses in classrooms within TLC2, so based on past experience, we know they stand up to the demands of scientific and academic use." |
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| DivX® |
| "Encoding video is a very long process – full-length video content contains thousands of frames, and every frame contains a huge amount of information that needs to be processed to produce the best compression and visual quality,” says Rota. “Overall encoding time can take several hours. It’s a very time consuming process." |
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| Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) |
| "We were excited about working with AMD on a port of Advantage Ingres for the AMD Opteron processor,” McGrattan said. “We liked the fact that we can help our clients move to a 64-bit environment at their pace as well as giving them the capability to deploy their existing 32-bit applications on an
AMD Opteron processor-based platform without changing a single line of code.
" |
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| Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) |
| "A unique aspect of our relationship with AMD is that we worked very closely with AMD to develop ACML" |
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| Super Computer, Inc. |
| "Gamers expect nothing but the best. Whoever is providing the most powerful solution is where gamers go. " |
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| Voodoo PC, ABS Computer Technologies, Inc. and Falcon Northwest |
| "Performance is important to game players and enthusiasts specifically because it enriches the experience they're seeing with their games." |
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| Ferrari |
| "We believe the AMD Athlon 64 processor will deliver more data analysis in less time" |
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| Troublemaker Studios |
| "We’re looking forward to the 64-bit processors. We believe they will allow us to produce dailies for Robert that even more closely resemble the final product,” said Toader, adding, “The AMD Athlon 64 processors are designed to also give us speed. You just can’t have enough speed, especially in post-production." |
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| Aventis |
| "Previously, researchers were limited by the speed with which ‘virtual screening’ of small molecule libraries was performed. With the AMD Athlon™ MP processor-based cluster, I can utilize parallel processing to work through myriad possibilities to eliminate the bad ones and find the best choice. We can perform a ‘virtual screen’ on 10,000 or more small molecules each day" |
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| MultiGen-Paradigm Inc. |
| "Systems we rely on must be rock solid. In the back of your mind you always are concerned about possible compatibility issues, but we haven't had any compatibility or reliability issues with AMD Athlon™ MP processor-based systems. When customers ask us about the performance on the AMD processor-based platform, without hesitation we say we are highly satisfied." |
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| Erik Hawkins |
| "With the right computer, such as one powered by an AMD Athlon™ XP processor, practically everything you need to make music can be combined in a single machine - synthesizers, drums, sample loops, vocal and guitar tracks. You can add effects like echo, delay and reverb or create effects no one has heard before. All this performance enables the end user to be creative in a way that was never before possible." |
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| Tippett Studio |
| "We built some prototype desktop workstations powered by AMD Athlon™ MP processors. We had tried systems powered by a competitor's processors, and they worked fairly well. However, we absolutely preferred the performance of the AMD Athlon™ processor. A good part of the advantage comes from the performance of AMD's floating point engine, which is very important to compute-intensive operations such as rendering." |
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| Music Producer Greg Ladanyi |
| "Of course we look for reliability because we can't afford any kind of glitch or computer failure. That's why we love the AMD Athlon™ MP processor-based systems from Soundchaser. When it comes to reliability, our systems are rock solid. We end up enhancing every aspect of making music, and the AMD Athlon MP processor-based systems are a huge part of the reason why." |
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| PCB Productions |
| "Our editors and mixers rely on our AMD Athlon™ processor based-systems to make sure our projects are done on time and are of the highest quality. " |
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| Rhythm & Hues Studios |
| "I knew I wanted Linux on the desktop. I started looking for the best price/performance. We looked at AMD processor-based systems and found they did quite well. The systems we looked at from Angstrom Micro ran dual processors and ran them brilliantly. So we started examining the systems more carefully by running render and display evaluations, and the AMD Athlon™ MP processors were as fast as the competition. So we went and got a rack of AMD systems. My animators screamed for more." |
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| Siemens AG |
| "It's all about maximizing the read rate and minimizing the error rate. When we evaluate processors, we're looking at the milliseconds each processing step requires. In our tests, we inject images of test mail pieces from a database. When we ran our test results, AMD Athlon™ MP processors proved to be the better choice." |
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| Boeing Space and Communications |
| "With the new AMD Athlon processor-based Linux NetworX cluster system, we are seeing reliability that is far exceeding our expectations. " |
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| Digital Pre-visualization in |
| "Pre-visualization serves two primary purposes -- to sell a concept and save time and money. Our goal was to paint an accurate picture of what "Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones" would look like long before filming was even started. Our AMD Athlon™ MP processor-based systems are ideal for running the extremely powerful software we rely upon. People who visit our lab can see how, using these systems, we are able to answer almost all of the creative questions from the start of shooting to the end of postproduction. " |
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| Veritas |
| "Since our evaluations two years ago, the AMD Athlon processor has been our system CPU of choice," says oil & gas exploration powerhouse, Veritas.
" |
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| Racksaver |
| "High-density servers are powering
a new generation of Linux-based Beowulf clusters.
" |
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| Indy Race Car Driver Scott Sharp Relies On AMD Athlon™ XP Processors for Extreme Performance |
| "It's vital to have processors that are fast enough to keep up. Several years ago, we had a computer crash, which caused chaos in the pit. That’s one of the reasons why we've upgraded to the AMD Athlon™ XP processor.
" |
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| Linn Products Limited |
| "The Kivor System went through very rigorous testing, as you can imagine. We selected the processor we needed based on performance. As I said, the Kivor machine really must be stable. The performance of the AMD Duron™ processor really is superb and clearly up to the job." |
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| The Jerde Partnership International |
| "We use technology for time travel. We unravel the past to learn its lessons, just as we project our ideas and designs forward into the future. Whether we are collaborating within our office, communicating across the globe, making presentations to corporations or exploring designs experientially, we use AMD Athlon processor-based technology to extend and magnify our talents and pursuits." |
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| Intergraph Corporation |
| "AMD Athlon™MP Platform aids time-critical investigations" |
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| Corprasoft, Inc. |
| "Our decision to go with the AMD Athlon processor-based systems has been the right decision. We had no doubts that these systems would run our code flawlessly, and be 100% compatible. We've had no issues whatsoever. And we've evolved from a system where our developers were waiting for things to happen to a system where our developers are almost never waiting." |
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| Austin Police Department Relies on AMD Technology And Corporate Support To Solve High Tech Crimes |
| "AMD is one of the companies that never fails to get an answer for us,” said Blanchard. “I’m sold on AMD, at home and at work." |
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| Thailand Advanced Cluster Computer Opens Worlds of Research |
| "We plan to expand the system to about 20 nodes this year and 32 nodes the following year. This kind of power provided by AMD Athlon™ processors is opening a whole new world for Thai researchers" |
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| Net Integration Technologies Inc. |
| "New customers occasionally ask why we offer only AMD processor-based servers. However, once they get one of our servers into their hands, they understand why. With AMD CPUs, Net Integrator’s performance is clearly superior." |
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| Douglas Spotted Eagle |
| "The faster and more stable the system, the more I can move forward with experimental ideas that are exceptionally processor intensive. It also means that what used to be external hardware-based systems can be moved into the software realm, and speed up the creative process. When the computer reaches the point that it can move as fast as my mind, it will truly be a seamless workspace. AMD processors are clearly approaching that point." |
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| Xi Computer Corporation |
| "Based on our experience, the AMD 760MP™ chipset has a superior dual processor architecture and uses DDR memory. None of the above is true for the competing dual processor platforms." |
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| Goshen College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
| "To stay on top of this business, you must continually test your assumptions to see if reality has changed. Well, reality has changed. The AMD Athlon™ processor is a better product." |
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| Aspen View |
| "With AMD Duron processor-based systems, we get nice systems for a very competitive price. When you have a fixed budget, and you can get an extra couple of PC's in your labs for the same money, that's a huge plus for the students. Especially when the other key ingredients - the performance, the stability, and the compatibility - are combined in one nice package." |
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| frog |
| "Increased PC performance aids our efforts and helps keep our clients in the headlines. The AMD Athlon™ processor-based system cut our production time significantly.
" |
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| Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
| "We needed to optimize our performance control system software to run at its maximum potential. They (AMD Athlon™ processors) are very, very fast and very, very stable. And the AMD Athlon processors are very well supported by the operating systems that we run on them. We love 'em." |
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| Rackspace |
| "We use a lot of 1 GHz AMD Athlon™ processors. We found they are incredibly reliable. In fact, we have well over 1500 AMD-based servers that had been up and running 24 hours a day for over two years with no downtime whatsoever. " |
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| Bentley Systems Software |
| "AMD has designed a processor that's more than capable of being used in workstations. To me, AMD is in the home market with a business CPU. I think that's going to change soon." |
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| Clint ISD |
| "We now have 600 PCs that are AMD processor-based. This year, we're going to add 200 or 250 more. High performance computers based on AMD Athlon™ processors can function well as servers in the school environment. We're using them with multimedia software to do 3D graphics using Rhino. The speed of the machines makes using the Internet a lot faster. We're also using them to do online video transmission." |
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| University of Kentucky |
| "AMD Athlon™ processor is affordable, fast, reliable, runs Linux beautifully, and is easily integrated in a cluster design. What more could you want in a supercomputer processor? " |
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| Pike Place Market |
| "Fantastic performance, quality and stability at an irresistible price.
" |
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| CycleMallUSA.com |
| "The AMD Athlon™ processor has been fantastic.
" |
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| Lindy & the Look Music Productions, Inc. |
| "We love the AMD Athlon and AMD for breaking new ground in the PC field. In our business, we will use only AMD Athlon systems from now on. We will recommend only the AMD Athlon series to our customers." |
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| Digital Anvil |
| "I was impressed with the AMD Athlon processor's stability. I use it for my most critical work." |
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