— New APU, GPU and embedded pro­ducts from AMD and part­ners show­ca­se breakth­rough com­pu­ting expe­ri­en­ces for enthu­si­asts, gamers and main­stream con­su­mers alike —

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — 2015 Inter­na­tio­nal Con­su­mer Elec­tro­nics Show (CES) — Jan. 5, 2015 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and its tech­no­lo­gy part­ners are rea­dy to wow atten­de­es of the 2015 Inter­na­tio­nal CES with a wide ran­ge of new pro­ducts and tech­no­lo­gy demons­tra­ti­ons that show­ca­se AMD’s view of the future of com­pu­ting, and rein­force the company’s sur­round com­pu­ting lea­der­ship. The com­pa­ny will show­ca­se an array of inno­va­tions powered by the latest AMD Acce­le­ra­ted Pro­ces­sing Unit (APU), Rade­on™ Gra­phics Pro­ces­sing Unit (GPU) tech­no­lo­gies, and embedded designs that push the boun­da­ries of modern computing.

“AMD is con­tri­bu­ting to the exci­te­ment of CES 2015 with new gra­phics and com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy that powers breakth­rough con­su­mer and com­mer­cial com­pu­ting expe­ri­en­ces of today and tomor­row,” said John Byr­ne, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics busi­ness group, AMD. “This year, we con­ti­nue to see inspi­ring deve­lo­p­ments in vir­tu­al rea­li­ty, Ultra high Defi­ni­ti­on 4K reso­lu­ti­on com­pu­ting and bey­ond, com­pu­ting form fac­tor and intui­ti­ve user inter­face inno­va­ti­on. AMD is thril­led to power the best of the­se with new gene­ra­ti­ons of our smart, inno­va­ti­ve, and effi­ci­ent technology.”

2015 AMD at CES Highlights: 

• The next gene­ra­ti­on of mobi­le com­pu­ting – AMD’s first high-per­for­mance sys­tem-on-a-chip (SoC) and next-gene­ra­ti­on Mobi­le APU code­na­med “Car­ri­zo” will be show­ca­sed. Expec­ted in mar­ket by mid-year, “Car­ri­zo” has been desi­gned for both modern con­su­mer com­pu­ting habits and the needs of IT depart­ments – a plat­form built for an always-on, media-cen­tric and pro­duc­ti­vi­ty-cen­tric life­style with sup­port for next-gene­ra­ti­on APIs such as DirectX® 12, Open­CL™ 2.0, and the forth­co­ming Win­dows 10 ope­ra­ting system.
• 4K and bey­ond – AMD will be demons­t­ra­ting excep­tio­nal ultra-high-defi­ni­ti­on expe­ri­en­ces at 4K reso­lu­ti­ons and bey­ond, spot­light­ing 4K gam­ing using AMD Rade­on™ R9 gra­phics and AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy, the Apple iMac with 5K Reti­na dis­play powered by AMD Rade­on R9 gra­phics, and the new Ali­en­wa­re 15 note­books with 4K dis­play sup­port powered by new AMD Rade­on R9 M295X graphics.
• New con­su­mer and com­mer­cial cli­ent expe­ri­en­ces – AMD and its tech­no­lo­gy part­ners will pre­sent exci­ting con­su­mer and com­mer­cial cli­ent com­pu­ting expe­ri­en­ces at CES for work and play, inclu­ding AMD Face Log­in and AMD Ges­tu­re Con­trol on the Leno­vo Ide­a­Pad Z50 lap­top powered by the AMD A10-7300 APU with AMD Rade­on™ R6 gra­phics, acce­le­ra­ted appli­ca­ti­ons on the HP Eli­te­Book 725 G2 powered by the AMD A10 PRO-7350B APU with AMD Rade­on™ R6 gra­phics, inno­va­ti­ve ways to mana­ge video con­tent on the HP Envy TouchSmart powered by AMD FX-7500 APU with AMD Rade­on™ R7 gra­phics, and a space-saving home thea­ter PC in the ZOTAC ZBOX PA330 pico Series powered by the AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU.
• AMD Free­Sync tech­no­lo­gy for smoot­her gam­ing – Free­Sync tech­no­lo­gy enables an impro­ved gam­ing expe­ri­ence through dyna­mic refresh rates that are syn­chro­ni­zed to the frame rate of AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics cards and APUs. At CES, AMD’s part­ners, inclu­ding, BenQ, LG Elec­tro­nics, Nixeusm, Sam­sung, and View­So­nic will show­ca­se the world’s first Free­Sync-enab­led dis­plays[i].
• Embedded inno­va­ti­on – QNAP, a lea­ding pro­vi­der of net­work atta­ched sto­rage (NAS) sys­tems, will announ­ce that the AMD Embedded G‑Series sys­tem-on-chip (SoC) is powe­ring their new TVS-x63 plat­form. Also at CES, AMD will demo various embedded solu­ti­ons powered by AMD Embedded pro­ces­sors, inclu­ding Giz­mo 2, an open source deve­lo­p­ment board offe­ring out­stan­ding com­pu­te and gra­phics per­for­mance for embedded pro­gramm­ers and advan­ced DIY­ers; Bio­Di­gi­talPC, a cre­dit card-sized x86 PC desi­gned for mul­ti­ple ver­ti­cal mar­kets; and Thin­Labs All-In-One POE Thin Cli­ent, ide­al for digi­tal signage and point of sale systems.

“Emer­ging Trends in Gam­ing” CES Super­Ses­si­on Panel

Richard Hud­dy, AMD’s chief gam­ing sci­en­tist, is par­ti­ci­pa­ting in the CES Super­Ses­si­on panel “Emer­ging Trends in Gam­ing” on Janu­ary 6 at 11:30 a.m. PST at the Las Vegas Con­ven­ti­on Cen­ter in the North Hall, room N258 whe­re he and other indus­try lumi­na­ries will dis­cuss the impact that vir­tu­al rea­li­ty, free-to-play and mobi­le games are having on the glo­bal gam­ing business.

Sup­port­ing Resources 

• Read about all of AMD’s CES news here
• Visit AMD at The Vene­ti­an at CES Tech West in the San Polo mee­ting rooms 3402 – 3404
• Read the full QNAP press release
• Join the con­ver­sa­ti­on at #AMDCES
• Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter @amd or on Face­book

About AMD

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

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This Press Release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD” or the “Com­pa­ny”) inclu­ding, among other things, the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty and bene­fits of AMD Free­Sync; the timing, avai­la­bi­li­ty of the AMD “Car­ri­zo” APU-based note­books, which are made pur­su­ant to the safe har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects,” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. 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. 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. Risks include the pos­si­bi­li­ty that Intel Corporation’s pri­cing, mar­ke­ting and reba­ting pro­grams, pro­duct bund­ling, stan­dard set­ting, new pro­duct intro­duc­tions or other acti­vi­ties may nega­tively impact AMD’s plans; that AMD will requi­re addi­tio­nal fun­ding and may be unable to rai­se suf­fi­ci­ent capi­tal on favorable terms, or at all; that cus­to­mers stop buy­ing AMD’s pro­ducts or mate­ri­al­ly redu­ce their ope­ra­ti­ons or demand for AMD’s pro­ducts; that AMD may be unable to deve­lop, launch and ramp new pro­ducts and tech­no­lo­gies in the volu­mes that are requi­red by the mar­ket at matu­re yields on a time­ly basis; that AMD’s third-par­ty foundry sup­pli­ers will be unable to tran­si­ti­on AMD’s pro­ducts to advan­ced manu­fac­tu­ring pro­cess tech­no­lo­gies in a time­ly and effec­ti­ve way or to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve pro­cess tech­no­lo­gies; that AMD will be unable to obtain suf­fi­ci­ent manu­fac­tu­ring capa­ci­ty or com­pon­ents to meet demand for its pro­ducts or will not ful­ly uti­li­ze its pro­jec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring capa­ci­ty needs at GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc. (GF) micro­pro­ces­sor manu­fac­tu­ring faci­li­ties; that AMD’s requi­re­ments for wafers will be less than the fixed num­ber of wafers that it agreed to purcha­se from GF or GF encoun­ters pro­blems that signi­fi­cant­ly redu­ce the num­ber of func­tion­al die it recei­ves from each wafer; that AMD is unable to suc­cessful­ly imple­ment its long-term busi­ness stra­tegy; that the com­ple­ti­on and impact of the 2014 Res­truc­tu­ring Plan and AMD’s trans­for­ma­ti­on initia­ti­ves could adver­se­ly affect AMD; that AMD inac­cu­ra­te­ly esti­ma­tes the quan­ti­ty or type of pro­ducts that its cus­to­mers will want in the future or will ulti­m­ate­ly end up purcha­sing, resul­ting in excess or obso­le­te inven­to­ry; that AMD is unable to mana­ge the risks rela­ted to the use of its third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board (AIB) part­ners or offer the appro­pria­te incen­ti­ves to focus them on the sale of AMD’s pro­ducts; that AMD may be unable to main­tain the level of invest­ment in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment that is requi­red to remain com­pe­ti­ti­ve; that the­re may be unex­pec­ted varia­ti­ons in mar­ket growth and demand for AMD’s pro­ducts and tech­no­lo­gies in light of the pro­duct mix that it may have available at any par­ti­cu­lar time; that glo­bal busi­ness and eco­no­mic con­di­ti­ons will not impro­ve or will wor­sen; that PC mar­ket con­di­ti­ons will not impro­ve or will wor­sen; that PC mar­ket con­di­ti­ons will not impro­ve or will wor­sen; that demand for com­pu­ters will be lower than curr­ent­ly expec­ted; and the effect of poli­ti­cal or eco­no­mic insta­bi­li­ty, dome­sti­cal­ly or inter­na­tio­nal­ly, on AMD’s sales or sup­p­ly chain. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in the Company’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to the Quar­ter­ly Report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended Sep­tem­ber 27, 2014.

[i] Free­Sync is an AMD tech­no­lo­gy desi­gned to redu­ce or eli­mi­na­te screen tears in games and vide­os by allo­wing the monitor’s refresh rate to be con­trol­led by and syn­chro­ni­zed to the Rade­on R‑series gra­phics card or APU Rade­on R‑series gra­phics.  Requi­res Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2a com­pli­ant moni­tors that sup­port Dis­play­Po­rt Adap­ti­ve-Sync and an AMD desk­top 2014 A‑series APU with Rade­on R‑series gra­phics, with forth­co­ming Free­Sync-enab­led dri­ver.  Sup­port for use with mul­ti­ple moni­tors plan­ned.  Con­firm sup­port­ed tech­no­lo­gies with sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purchase.