AMD Continues Momentum With Broad Software…

Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 10, 2006 – AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced
broad software industry support for its upcoming Next-Generation AMD
Opteron(tm) processor family, which provides the ISV (independent
software vendor) and open source software development communities with
hardware support for the development of the next evolution of
business-class enterprise applications.

“As our server business continues to grow each year and
we move toward greater than 30 percent marketshare, the software
development community is seizing the opportunity to support and grow
with AMD,” said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial Segment,
AMD. “Since introducing the AMD64 instruction set and Direct Connect
Architecture in 2003, AMD has worked with our software partners and the
open source software community to ensure that multi-threaded and 64-bit
applications harness the potential of AMD64 technology. Our ecosystem of
software partners will continue to grow as a result of the inherent
benefits that software developers can achieve with the Next-Generation
AMD Opteron processor: a stable, upgradeable, proven innovation
platform; superior workload and resource consolidation; and robust
performance when running the world’s most demanding applications.”

With the industry facing increasing demands for technologies
that enable data center resource consolidation and lower total cost of
ownership (TCO), the Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor is designed
to provide a smarter choice with the introduction of AMD
Virtualization(tm) technology and a seamless upgrade path from dual-core
to quad-core processing. In addition, the AMD Opteron processor with
Direct Connect Architecture reduces or eliminates performance
bottlenecks, so that software can leverage AMD64 dual-core technology
and multi-threaded development
methodologies to push the boundaries of data analysis and real-world
simulations with faster, more powerful and efficient hardware.
“Customers and partners are demanding solutions that help them achieve
business agility and advance their businesses with high-performance IT
infrastructure,” said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server
and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp. “The Next-Generation AMD Opteron
processor, along with current and future versions of Windows Server,
will enhance software development and drive further adoption of the
latest innovations in security, virtualization and management.”

Advancing Resource Consolidation: Preparing for the Next Stage of
Virtualization and Multi-Core Processing
The Next Generation AMD Opteron processor is enabled with
hardware-assists that provide virtualization software vendors with an
improved, simplified infrastructure for offering mainframe-class
virtualization to the x86 market.
“VMware’s virtualization platform and AMD Opteron processor-based
systems are combined today in some of the most advanced data centers,
resulting in significant power savings and unprecedented resource
consolidation,” said Brian Byun, vice president of Products and
Alliances at VMware. “The Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor includes
additional hardware support that further accentuates the benefits of
VMware Infrastructure 3 as a true distributed platform for sharing
resources transparently across the enterprise.”
Operating System (OS) vendors, including open source vendors, are
already shipping operating systems that take advantage of multi-core
processors.

“Back in early 2003, Novell worked alongside AMD to bring the first
production-level 64-bit operating system to the enterprise market, and
since that time, our collaboration on solutions for the open source
community has remained very active,” said Roger Levy, vice president,
Open Platform Solutions, at Novell. “AMD’s Next-Generation AMD Opteron
processor platform will enable customers to take full advantage of
virtualization features in the recently launched SUSE Linux Enterprise
10.”

The Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor family will also prepare the
industry for a seamless transition to quad-core computing by providing
unparalleled platform stability. Multi-core processors help developers
break through today’s single-core performance limitations, providing
performance capacity designed to tackle tomorrow’s advanced software
demands. The continued widespread adoption of this technology is
expected to allow software engineers to use multi-threading more broadly
in code designs, facilitating the downward filtering of sophisticated
multi-threaded applications from the enterprise to the client and
consumer markets.

AMD plans to announce the availability of the Next-Generation AMD
Opteron on August 15, 2006. Also next week, at the LinuxWord Conference
and Expo, held August 14-17, 2006 in San Francisco, AMD will be
participating in several panel discussions, including “Linux in the
Channel: Interactive Discussion Between the Channel and Linux Vendors,”
“The State of Linux on the Desktop: An OSDL Desktop Linux Working Group
Panel Discussion,” and “How Emerging Data Center Architectures Are
Making Virtualization a Reality.” For more information, please visit
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/.

About the AMD Opteron(tm) Processor

Today, 90 percent of the top 100 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies or
their subsidiaries rely on AMD Opteron(tm) processor-based systems.
Single- and Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the highest
performance and performance-per-watt in the market because they are
built on AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture, innovated to
reduce bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures
and enable a more efficient approach to computing.