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Please support the 2004 Spring AMD Tech Tour sponsors listed below.

Amcc | ASI | ASUS | Avus | Bass Computers | Celestica | Gigabyte | Jet-Way | Microsoft | Nu Technology | Sourcecode | Supercom | Tech Data | Tyan | Western Digital

AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the transport, switching, routing and storage of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver communications silicon and software for global wide area networks (WAN), Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for storage area networks (SAN), and hardware and software solutions for high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID through its recent acquisition of 3ware. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world.

www.amcc.com

ASI, a computer hardware and software distributor founded in 1987, has grown from a now legendary woman's vision to an international PC distributor, recently hitting the one-billion-mark in sales. With fifteen strategically located branches in North America ASI offers dedicated sales managers, technical support, whitebox/system production, product warehousing with same day delivery and favorable financing options. ASI is dedicated in providing its business partners with a reliable source of leading PC products, exactly when needed, at competitive prices, and with superior pre-sale and post-sale support. ASI's resellers are the foundation of its business; target markets include white-box integrators, VAR's, plus online and traditional retail stores. ASI's goal is to simplify the reseller's job by offering effective sales and marketing programs, technical training and improve the resellers inventory liability all while also offering the best cost/value available.

www.asipartner.com

Celebrating our 15 year anniversary, ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of high quality motherboards, notebooks, VGA cards, servers, broadband modems, and optical storage devices. With annual sales of over US$2 Billion and world-class engineering, ASUS provides innovative technology solutions to consumer, corporate and top-tier OEM customers. Company achievements include consecutive rankings in the "Top 100 InfoTech Companies" for 6 years running as well as being named the No.1 Taiwan Company in Global Views Monthly's "Info Tech 2000".

http://usa.asus.com/

Avus is among the top 20 IT products distributor of computer systems, servers, networking hardware components, software and accessories. We distribute a line of 2,000 products to 7,000 VARs, Retailers, and System Builders. The company provides free, timely, and accurate delivery via a fleet of 11 trucks located around our six fully stocked warehouses coast-to-coast. We offer multiple financing tools and value-added services, which include configuration, integration, assembly, marketing, walk-up RMA, will call, and toll-free technical support. Online order is available 24 x 7. Additionally, we offer educational seminars through IT Solution Expo that take place in 6 major cities throughout the US every year.

www.avus.com

Bass Computers, Inc., Texas-based computer wholesale distributor and OEM white box system builder, has been providing service and experience to the South Central United States for over 13 years. Bass Computers reseller website, www.basscomputers.com, can assist our registered resellers in everything from ordering, RMAs, basic accounting and much more. Bass Computers is an AMD Platinum Partner, ready to build you a custom or pre-configured solution, whether it is an Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Opteron, or Athlon FX based computer. Bass Computers uses only the highest quality components from AMD, Microsoft, nVidia, Connect 3D, Gigabyte, Aopen, MSI, and Thermaltake to name a few. BCI systems are covered by a three-year warranty, as well as lifetime warranty on all of out Patriot PDP memory. Here at Bass Computers, we are “Hooked on Customer Service.”

www.basscomputers.com

Celestica a $6.7 billion manufacturing partner of the world's leading OEMs, is now bringing the same high-quality server products to the
system builder community.

AMD has created the Validated Server Program (VSP) and has chosen Celestica as an exclusive partner to enable a world class server solution that meets the needs of solution providers.The Validated Server Program provides solution providers with server solutions that deliver quality, performance and reliability while enabling high-margin opportunity.

Through this exclusive program, AMD provides companies with world-class, innovative semiconductor processors, while Celestica delivers quality manufacturing coupled with end-to end service and support. This collaboration provides solution providers with high-quality AMD server solutions backed by Celestica's responsive service and support  a valuable competitive advantage that you can leverage immediately.

www.celestica.com

Gigabyte employs world-class engineers to provide advanced technologies for quality product designs fulfilling customer satisfaction. Current products including Intel P4, AMD K7 & K8 M/B, ATI graphic card, server board, rack mount server, mini PC, thin client, wireless router, wireless lan card, switch, IA, LCD monitor, as well as other storage & communication products. Gigabyte, a world leading manufacturer, also acts as a close partner with Intel, AMD, ATI, VIA, etc. Gigabyte has global locations including seven branches, eleven offices and five manufacturing plants. Coming new AMD M/B include single or dual K8 boards, KT400A M/B, KT600 M/B, nForce2 M/B, etc.

www.gigabyte.com

JET-WAY, the no. 5 public company in equity value among all Taiwan motherboard manufacturers, has served PC motherboard industry for 16 years.

JET-WAY has announced in year 2004 a brand new motherboard product  MagicTwin which will allow user to build  1 PC SERVES 2 USERS AT THE SAME TIME.

2 Users can surf internet, e-mail, make text doc., edit spreadsheet, listen music, play DVD even play games all at the same time by sharing ONLY 1PC.

Magic Twin product comes with 2 format, standard ATX, M-ATX motherboard or SFF Barebones.

www.jetwaycomputer.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide visionary technology leader that creates innovative software and services to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential.  We recognize that all our partners – from system builders, solution providers and resellers, to developers and independent software and hardware vendors – are critical to helping us realize our vision.  We remain unwaveringly committed to supporting our partners through innovative partnering initiatives, investing generously in partner-specific programs, training, go-to-market campaigns and a wealth of other information and support.  For valuable information specifically designed for Microsoft partners, visit us at http://www.microsoft.com/partner/usa

Nu Technology Inc. is founded in May of 2003 by Quanta Computer Inc. (one of the best Notebook IT groups worldwide) and Quanta Storage Inc. Located in the center of the Silicon Valley ; we are an optical storage drive manufacturer. Our company is proud to produce a full range of both internal and external, Half-Height and Slim optical storage products. Some of our internal and external optical products include IDE CD & DVD ROM, CDRW, CDRW plus DVD combi drive, and DVD writers.

www.nu-global.com

With more than 15 years of experience, Source Code Corporation has developed a unique position within the technology industry. From its grass roots in distribution to its recent expansion into manufacturing, contract manufacturing, and the development of Total Solutions, Source Code continues to expand its business. In addition to our Northeast presence with our 60,000 square foot manufacturing and distribution center located in Norwood Massachusetts we have extended our reach to the Midwest by adding a 20,000 square foot facility located in Columbus Ohio. Additionally Source Code continues to add to its management and engineering staff to continually build the core competences within Source Code.

The areas of business covered by Source Code includes...

1. Component Distribution
2. Custom Manufacturing
3. Contract Manufacturing
4. Total Solutions

www.sourcecode.com

Founded in 1989, Supercom is an established Canadian company, specializing in the distribution of computer products and consumer electronic products and the production of personal computers. Supercom has built a strong and dynamic organization by focusing on quality products and services, business partnerships, and customer satisfaction. As a distributor, we partner with manufacturers to service our customers. Supercom is continually diversifying its product mix to meet the ever-changing market demand and development. Servicing a customer base of over 7,000 computer resellers across Canada, Supercom has consistently been acknowledged as one of the top distributors in Canada.

www.supercom.ca

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS: TECD), founded in 1974, is a leading global provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services. Ranked 117th on the Fortune 500, the company and its subsidiaries serve more than 100,000 technology resellers in the United States , Canada , the Caribbean , Latin America , Europe and the Middle East . Tech Data’s extensive service offering includes technical support, financing options and custom configuration as well as a full range of award-winning electronic commerce solutions. Visit the Components home page at http://www.techdata.com/sbu/components/comp_main.aspx to learn more about the Tech Data Components SBU and the Components advantage.

Tyan Computer Corporation designs and manufactures advanced systemboards, server barebones solutions, and graphics card products. Tyan was first to design dual processor AMD-based motherboards, and Tyan's time-to-market and award-winning products are sold to OEMs, System Integrators, VARs and Resellers worldwide.

Over the last decade, Tyan has received several accolades for its quality and growth. Tyan was named by the prestigious INC 500 in 1997 and 1998 (19th fastest growing U.S. company in 1997), ranked by Deloitte & Touche as one of the USA's "Fast 500", as well as one of Silicon Valley's "Fast 50".

www.tyan.com

The people of Western Digital, who help you collect, manage and use digital information. We make hard drives like the one in your personal computer and in millions of others bearing the labels of the world’s leading PC producers. You will find our hard drives also in gaming consoles and in personal video recorders or set-top boxes that control your cable or satellite TV.

For businesses and other organizations, our people have developed Western Digital enterprise hard drives that employ Serial ATA technology. These remarkable drives equal or exceed the performance and reliability of the more costly SCSI hard drives that are common in high-demand enterprise computing environments.

Our people know a lot about your need for reliable and responsive information storage both at home and on the job. So, we are building our hard drives bigger and faster, and equipping them with self-diagnostic features to make them ever more reliable and user-friendly.

We also know how highly you value the personalized information you are creating, using and storing. We will continue to do all we can to help you keep it safe and close at hand. This is our only business.

www.wdc.com


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