─ Search and Arti­fi­ci­al Intel­li­gence Giant Appli­es Per­for­mance of AMD EPYC™ Pro­ces­sors Across AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing ─

 ─ AMD EPYC Pro­ces­sors Pro­vi­de 2.6X the I/O Den­si­ty of the Com­pe­ti­ti­on¹ ─

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) and Bai­du, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU), the lea­ding Chi­ne­se lan­guage Inter­net search pro­vi­der and lea­der in arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence (AI), today announ­ced the imme­dia­te avai­la­bi­li­ty of AMD-powered AI, big data, and cloud com­pu­ting (ABC) ser­vices. Uti­li­zing the com­pu­te per­for­mance and advan­ced fea­ture-set of the AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor in a sin­gle-socket plat­form allows Bai­du to effi­ci­ent­ly opti­mi­ze and deli­ver mas­si­ve sto­rage and com­pu­te ser­vices to its cus­to­mers.  Bai­du expects to fur­ther expand its use of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors across its glo­bal dat­a­cen­ters begin­ning in the first quar­ter of 2018.

“By offe­ring out­stan­ding per­for­mance in sin­gle-pro­ces­sor sys­tems, the AMD EPYC plat­form pro­vi­des fle­xi­bi­li­ty and high-per­for­mance in our dat­a­cen­ter, which allows Bai­du to deli­ver more effi­ci­ent ser­vices to our cus­to­mers,” said Liu Chao, seni­or direc­tor, Bai­du Sys­tem Tech­no­lo­gies Depart­ment. “Baidu’s mis­si­on is to make a com­plex world simp­ler through tech­no­lo­gy, and we are con­stant­ly loo­king to dis­co­ver and app­ly the latest cut­ting-edge tech­no­lo­gies, inno­va­tions, and solu­ti­ons to busi­ness. AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors pro­vi­de Bai­du with a new level of ener­gy effi­ci­ent and powerful com­pu­ting capability.”

“Bai­du is a long-reco­gni­zed pio­neer in dat­a­cen­ter inno­va­tions, and with their adop­ti­on of AMD EPYC they con­ti­nue down that path by lever­aging our sin­gle-socket inno­va­tions to power their ABC stra­tegy,” said Scott Aylor, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, and gene­ral mana­ger, AMD Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons. “It is a thril­ling expe­ri­ence to work side-by-side with Bai­du to explo­re the capa­bi­li­ties of AMD EPYC and maxi­mi­ze its appli­ca­ti­on across their cus­to­mers’ workloads.” 

With sup­port for 128 lanes of PCIe® con­nec­ti­vi­ty, an AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor deli­vers 2.6X the I/O den­si­ty than com­pe­ti­ti­ve solu­ti­ons¹ and enables Bai­du to achie­ve a level of sca­le and effi­ci­en­cy unri­va­led in high-per­for­mance x86.  The com­bi­na­ti­on of per­for­mance from the EPYC pro­ces­sor cores, and com­pu­te and I/O den­si­ty packa­ged in a sin­gle-socket con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on, pro­vi­des the ide­al plat­form for Baidu’s next gene­ra­ti­on cloud services.

Sup­port­ing Resources

• AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors on AMD.com
• Learn more about the “Zen” x86 core
• Fol­low AMD dat­a­cen­ter deve­lo­p­ments on Twit­ter @AMDServer

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.

About Bai­du
Bai­du, Inc. is the lea­ding Chi­ne­se lan­guage Inter­net search pro­vi­der. Bai­du aims to make a com­plex world simp­ler through tech­no­lo­gy. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Glo­bal Sel­ect Mar­ket under the sym­bol “BIDU”. Curr­ent­ly, ten ADSs repre­sent one Class A ordi­na­ry share.

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) inclu­ding the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and Baidu’s expan­ded use of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors in the first quar­ter of 2018, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. 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 docu­ment are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this docu­ment and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. 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 GF with obli­ga­ti­ons to purcha­se all of its micro­pro­ces­sor and APU pro­duct requi­re­ments, and a cer­tain por­ti­on of its GPU pro­duct requi­re­ments, from GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (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 lar­ge 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; AMD’s issu­an­ce to West Coast Hitech L.P. (WCH) of war­rants to purcha­se 75 mil­li­on shares of its com­mon stock, if and when exer­cis­ed, will dilute the owner­ship inte­rests of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, and the con­ver­si­on of the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 may dilute the owner­ship inte­rest of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, or may other­wi­se depress the pri­ce of its com­mon stock; 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 Quar­ter­ly Report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended Sep­tem­ber 30, 2017.

¹ AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor sup­ports up to 128 PCIe® Gen 3 I/O lanes (in both 1 and 2‑socket con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on), ver­sus the Intel® Xeon® SP Series pro­ces­sor sup­port­ing a maxi­mum of 48 lanes PCIe® Gen 3 per CPU, plus 20 lanes in the I/O chip (max of 68 lanes on 1 socket and 96 lanes on 2 socket). NAP-56

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