AMD Col­la­bo­ra­tes with Micro­soft to Advan­ce Open Source Cloud Hardware 

Microsoft’s Pro­ject Olym­pus plat­form design to incor­po­ra­te the upco­ming high-per­for­mance “Nap­les” x86 ser­ver processor 

SANTA CLARA, Cali., March 8, 2017 – At the 2017 Open Com­pu­te Pro­ject U.S. Sum­mit, AMD announ­ced their col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Micro­soft to incor­po­ra­te the cloud deli­very fea­tures of AMD’s next-gene­ra­ti­on “Nap­les” pro­ces­sor with Microsoft’s Pro­ject Olym­pus – Microsoft’s next-gene­ra­ti­on hypers­ca­le cloud hard­ware design and a new model for open source hard­ware deve­lo­p­ment with the OCP community.

Through Microsoft’s con­tri­bu­ti­on of the Pro­ject Olym­pus design much ear­lier in the cycle than many OCP pro­jects, AMD was able to enga­ge ear­ly on in the design pro­cess and fos­ter a deep col­la­bo­ra­ti­on around the stra­te­gic inte­gra­ti­on of AMD’s upco­ming “Nap­les” pro­ces­sor. The per­for­mance, sca­la­bi­li­ty and effi­ci­en­cy found at the core of Pro­ject Olym­pus and AMD’s “Nap­les” pro­ces­sor means the updated cloud hard­ware design can adapt to meet the appli­ca­ti­on demands of glo­bal dat­a­cen­ter customers.

“Next quar­ter AMD will bring hard­ware inno­va­ti­on back into the dat­a­cen­ter and ser­ver mar­kets with our high-per­for­mance “Nap­les” x86 CPU, that was desi­gned with the needs of cloud pro­vi­ders, enter­pri­se OEMs and cus­to­mers in mind,” said Scott Aylor, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent of enter­pri­se sys­tems, AMD. “Today we are proud to con­ti­nue our sup­port for the Open Com­pu­te Pro­ject by announ­cing our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on on Microsoft’s Pro­ject Olympus.”

Kus­ha­gra Vaid, gene­ral mana­ger and distin­gu­is­hed engi­neer, Azu­re Cloud Hard­ware Infra­struc­tu­re, Micro­soft Corp. said, “Col­la­bo­ra­ti­on across the open source com­mu­ni­ty is cen­tral to dri­ving rapid inno­va­ti­on and crea­ting a vibrant eco­sys­tem for Microsoft’s Pro­ject Olym­pus. Part­ner­ship in design, such as our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD, shows how enga­ging ear­ly and often with hard­ware inno­va­tors can pro­du­ce open source designs that are fas­ter to mar­ket and cus­to­mizable to enable fle­xi­bi­li­ty and choice for end users.”

Desi­gned to secu­re­ly sca­le across the cloud dat­a­cen­ter and tra­di­tio­nal on-pre­mi­se ser­ver con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, “Nap­les” deli­vers the “Zen” x86 pro­ces­sing engi­ne in con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons of up to 32 cores. Access to vast amounts of memo­ry, and indus­try-lea­ding on-chip sup­port for high-speed input / out­put chan­nels in a sin­gle-chip SoC fur­ther dif­fe­ren­tia­tes “Nap­les” from any­thing else in the ser­ver mar­ket today. The first “Nap­les” pro­ces­sors are sche­du­led to be available in Q2, with expec­ted volu­me avai­la­bi­li­ty buil­ding in the second half of 2017 through OEM and chan­nel partners.

AMD will deli­ver two pre­sen­ta­ti­ons on “Nap­les” and its dat­a­cen­ter stra­tegy this week during the Sum­mit. Scott Aylor, vice pre­si­dent of enter­pri­se solu­ti­ons will talk in the main hall on Wed., March 8th at 4:55 PM, while Dan Bounds, seni­or direc­tor of enter­pri­se pro­ducts, will deli­ver an engi­nee­ring Tech Talk on Thurs., March 9th at 9:20 AM on the Expo Hall stage.

About AMD

For more than 45 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms, and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, and Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

AMD, the AMD logo and com­bi­na­ti­ons the­reof are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Micro­soft is a regis­tered trade­mark of Micro­soft Cor­po­ra­ti­on in the US and other juris­dic­tions. Other pro­duct names used are for iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on pur­po­ses only and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve companies.

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD” or the “Com­pa­ny”) inclu­ding the expec­ted bene­fits from AMD’s col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Micro­soft on Microsoft’s Pro­ject Olym­pus, and the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing, expec­ted bene­fits of AMD’s “Nap­les” pro­ducts, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. The­se for­ward-loo­king state­ments are based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons and beliefs and invol­ve num­e­rous risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from expec­ta­ti­ons. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “intends,” “belie­ves,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “intends,” “plans,” “pro for­ma,” “esti­ma­tes,” “anti­ci­pa­tes,” or the nega­ti­ve of the­se words and phra­ses, other varia­ti­ons of the­se words and phra­ses or com­pa­ra­ble ter­mi­no­lo­gy. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces may limit AMD’s abili­ty to com­pe­te effec­tively; AMD has a wafer sup­p­ly agree­ment with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) with obli­ga­ti­ons to purcha­se all of our micro­pro­ces­sor and APU pro­duct requi­re­ments, and a cer­tain por­ti­on of its GPU pro­duct requi­re­ments, from GF with limi­t­ed excep­ti­ons. If GF is not able to satis­fy AMD’s manu­fac­tu­ring requi­re­ments, its busi­ness could be adver­se­ly impac­ted; AMD reli­es on third par­ties to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, and if they are unable to do so on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies, AMD’s busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; fail­ure to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts could nega­tively impact its finan­cial results; the suc­cess of AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon its abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers while sup­port­ing and coin­ci­ding with signi­fi­cant indus­try tran­si­ti­ons; if AMD can­not gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing, it may face a cash short­fall and be unable to make all of its plan­ned invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer may have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; AMD’s receipt of reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts is depen­dent upon its tech­no­lo­gy being desi­gned into third-par­ty pro­ducts and the suc­cess of tho­se pro­ducts; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; AMD may not be able to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to ser­vice its debt obli­ga­ti­ons or meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments; AMD has a sub­stan­ti­al amount of indeb­ted­ness which could adver­se­ly affect its finan­cial posi­ti­on and pre­vent it from imple­men­ting its stra­tegy or ful­fil­ling its con­trac­tu­al obli­ga­ti­ons; the agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the secu­red revol­ving line of cre­dit impo­se rest­ric­tions on AMD that may adver­se­ly affect its abili­ty to ope­ra­te its busi­ness; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect it; the demand for AMD’s pro­ducts depends in part on the mar­ket con­di­ti­ons in the indus­tries into which they are sold. Fluc­tua­tions in demand for AMD’s pro­ducts or a mar­ket decli­ne in any of the­se indus­tries could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on its results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s abili­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner is depen­dent upon third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; AMD depends on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents to sup­port its busi­ness; if AMD loses Micro­soft Corporation’s sup­port for its pro­ducts or other soft­ware ven­dors do not design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts, its abili­ty to sell its pro­ducts could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; and AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and AIB part­ners sub­jects it to cer­tain risks. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Annu­al Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended Decem­ber 31, 2016.