MAGAZINE FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW
-AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor selected as
"Product of the Year"- -AMD named "Most Innovative Company of the Year"-
Munich, GERMANY-MARCH 11, 2002-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today
announced that the company has been honored with the prestigious Reader's Choice
Awards of PC Magazine Germany for the third consecutive year. The readers of PC
Magazine named AMD the "Most Innovative Company of the Year 2001/2002" and the
AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor "Product of the Year 2001/2002." The AMD Athlon(tm)
processor ranked number two in product of the year category. In the "Most
Innovative Product" category, the AMD Athlon XP processor took second place
behind the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system.
"The Reader's Choice Awards of PC Magazine are a true
testament of the appreciation AMD and the AMD Athlon processor family are
enjoying among end users," said Jochen Polster, general manager, AMD Germany.
"Readers and editors of PC Magazine Germany are known for their passion for
superior engineering and innovation and understand the meaning of delivered
performance. Considering the vast array of computing products available today
and the number of companies bringing fresh ideas to market, we are honored to
win these Reader's Choice Awards."
"We are pleased to see that innovative companies like
AMD are driving technologies to market that make PCs more beneficial for end
users. This is what our readers appreciate and acknowledge," said Stephan
Quinkertz, publisher of PC Magazine Germany. "Our Reader's Choice Awards
impressively demonstrate that AMD belongs among the most successful companies in
the IT industry as a whole."
About the AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor
The AMD Athlon XP processor features QuantiSpeed(tm)
architecture, 384KB of on-chip, full-speed cache, and support for AMD's
3DNow!(tm) Professional instructions for enhanced multimedia capabilities. The
AMD Athlon XP processor is compatible with AMD's Socket A infrastructure, and
supports the advanced 266MHz front-side bus. AMD Athlon XP processors are
manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron copper process technology in Fab 30 in
Dresden, Germany.
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the
personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing
facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and
Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices,
and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in
1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in
2001. (NYSE: AMD).
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