AMD Wins `Best Hardware Product' at System Builder Summit; System Builders Select AMD Athlon and Duron Processors at Gartner Event
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2001--AMD (NYSE:AMD) has won the "Best Hardware Product" award at the Gartner's fifth System Builder Summit (SBS) in Orlando, Fla.
A group of 175 North American system builders chose AMD for the AMD Athlon(tm) and AMD Duron(tm) processors used in reseller systems that target small and medium businesses. The award marks the third time in three months that participants at a Gartner event have chosen AMD ahead of some of the top technology vendors that cater to enterprises. AMD has already won two consecutive "Best of Show" awards at Gartner's Midsize Enterprise Summit events in San Francisco, Calif., and Tampa, Fla.
"This award demonstrates that AMD is preferred by these system builders who are delivering AMD's innovative products to businesses, government and education," said Lee Little, AMD's director of field marketing for the Americas. "As a technology leader, AMD is well-positioned to deliver commercial systems and meet the needs and expectations of the business community, offering compatibility and stability for enterprise computing."
"This award shows appreciation of AMD's innovative technology, which provides an excellent platform for system builders," said Robert Danese, executive director, North American System Builders Association (NASBA). "AMD has been totally committed to the needs of system builders since the inception of NASBA, and this award is testament to AMD's continued support."
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets. AMD produces microprocessors, flash memories and integrated circuits for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AMD had revenues of $4.6 billion in 2000 (NYSE:AMD).
About the AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache architecture, now featuring 384KB of total on-chip cache (256KB of on-chip level (L2) cache and 128KB of on-chip level (L1) cache); enhanced 3DNow!(tm) technology with 24 additional instructions designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP communications. The AMD Athlon processor features either a 266MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) or a 200MHz FSB based on the Alpha(tm) EV6 bus protocol. AMD Athlon processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas, and AMD's 0.18 micron technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany.
About the AMD Duron(tm) Processor
The AMD Duron processor is a derivative of the award-winning AMD Athlon processor and is designed to provide an optimized solution for value-conscious business and home users. Employing an innovative design, the AMD Duron processor features a sophisticated cache architecture with 192KB of total on-chip cache, a high-speed 200MHz front-side bus and a superscalar floating point unit with enhanced 3DNow!(tm) technology.
The AMD Duron processor offers value-conscious buyers access to technology and performance that stands out among other processors in its class. It reflects AMD's 30 years of design and manufacturing expertise and sales of more than 150 million PC processors. AMD Duron processors are manufactured on AMD's 0.18 micron process technology in Fab 25, Austin, Texas.
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