AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today high­ligh­ted his­to­ric leaps in com­pu­ting, gam­ing and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies expec­ted in 2019 based on a com­bi­na­ti­on of lea­ding-edge 7nm tech­no­lo­gy and the most advan­ced com­pu­ting and gra­phics designs the com­pa­ny has ever crea­ted. During her CES 2019 key­note pre­sen­ta­ti­on, AMD Pre­si­dent and CEO Dr. Lisa Su announ­ced the world’s first 7nm gam­ing gra­phics pro­ces­sing unit (GPU), AMD Rade­on™ VII; detail­ed the world’s fas­test pro­ces­sor for ultrath­in lap­tops¹, 2^nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobi­le pro­ces­sors; and pro­vi­ded the first public demons­tra­ti­on of the upco­ming 7nm 3^rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ desk­top pro­ces­sor. Su was joi­n­ed by a num­ber of indus­try lumi­na­ries inclu­ding Micro­soft Exe­cu­ti­ve Vice Pre­si­dent of Gam­ing Phil Spen­cer, Mas­si­ve Enter­tain­ment Mana­ging Direc­tor David Pol­feldt, and FNATIC Co-Foun­der and Chair­man Sam Mathews.

Su’s key­note focu­sed on sol­ving the world’s toug­hest and most inte­res­t­ing chal­lenges through high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting and gra­phics inno­va­ti­on. From brin­ging a storyteller’s visi­on to life through digi­tal cha­rac­ters, to hel­ping com­mu­ni­ties come tog­e­ther through a shared love of gam­ing, to sol­ving some of our toug­hest chal­lenges in the realms of edu­ca­ti­on, health­ca­re, cli­ma­te chan­ge and ener­gy solu­ti­ons, AMD sees incre­di­ble oppor­tu­ni­ties to app­ly more powerful com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gies to sol­ve some of society’s toug­hest problems.

“This is an incre­di­ble time to be in tech­no­lo­gy as the indus­try pushes the enve­lo­pe on high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting to sol­ve the big­gest chal­lenges we face tog­e­ther,” said Su. “At AMD, we made big bets seve­ral years ago to acce­le­ra­te the pace of inno­va­ti­on for high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, and 2019 will be an inflec­tion point for the indus­try as we bring the­se new pro­ducts to mar­ket. From our 7nm Rade­on™ gra­phics chips to our next-gene­ra­ti­on 7nm AMD Ryzen™ and AMD EYPC™ pro­ces­sors, it’s going to be an exci­ting year for AMD and the industry.”

AMD Gaming Graphics Updates

Rein­for­cing its com­mit­ment to next-gene­ra­ti­on gam­ing lea­der­ship, AMD announ­ced the world’s first 7nm gam­ing GPU, AMD Rade­on™ VII, desi­gned to deli­ver excep­tio­nal per­for­mance and ama­zing expe­ri­en­ces for the latest AAA, esports and Vir­tu­al Rea­li­ty (VR) titles, deman­ding 3D ren­de­ring and video editing appli­ca­ti­ons, and next-gene­ra­ti­on com­pu­te workloads. The AMD Rade­on™ VII gra­phics card pro­vi­des 2x the memo­ry² and 2.1x the memo­ry band­width³, up to 29 per­cent hig­her gam­ing per­for­mance on avera­ge⁴ and up to 36 per­cent hig­her per­for­mance⁵ on avera­ge in con­tent crea­ti­on appli­ca­ti­ons com­pared to the AMD Rade­on™ RX Vega 64 gra­phics card, enab­ling maxi­mum set­tings for extre­me frame­ra­tes at the hig­hest reso­lu­ti­ons. It also pro­vi­des seam­less, high-refresh HDR gam­ing⁶ at 1080p, ultra­wi­de 1440p and 4K, and powers the next-gene­ra­ti­on pho­to and visu­al crea­ti­on appli­ca­ti­ons on razor sharp, vibrant 8K monitors.

AMD Rade­on™ VII gra­phics card is expec­ted to be available begin­ning Febru­ary 7, 2019.

AMD High-Performance Desktop Updates

For the seve­ral thousand key­note atten­de­es and the record-size CES key­note live­stream audi­ence, AMD per­for­med the first public demons­tra­ti­ons of the upco­ming 3^rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ desk­top pro­ces­sor. The 3^rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ pro­ces­sor is based on the new AMD “Zen 2” x86 core built using world-lea­ding 7nm pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy. It is expec­ted to deli­ver new levels of per­for­mance⁷ and will be the world’s first PC plat­form to sup­port PCIe 4.0 con­nec­ti­vi­ty⁸. The new AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors will offer bet­ter gam­ing, crea­ting and strea­ming expe­ri­en­ces than ever befo­re with a fas­ter and quie­ter PC.

The live demons­tra­ti­on show­ed a 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ desk­top pre-pro­duc­tion pro­ces­sor vs. an Intel Core™ i9-9900K pro­ces­sor in a real-time ren­de­ring demons­tra­ti­on using Maxon Cine­bench R15. The AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sor offe­red com­pa­ra­ble per­for­mance at appro­xi­m­ate­ly 30% lower power⁹. Addi­tio­nal­ly, Dr. Su show­ed the power of AMD tech­no­lo­gy working tog­e­ther with a live gam­ing demons­tra­ti­on of a 3^rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ desk­top pro­ces­sor in an AMD socket AM4 plat­form pai­red with an AMD Rade­on™ VII gra­phics processor.

The 3^rd Gen Ryzen™ desk­top pro­ces­sor is plan­ned for intro­duc­tion in mid-2019.

AMD Server Updates

The AMD EPYC™ dat­a­cen­ter pro­ces­sor had a tre­men­dous first year, win­ning in the big­gest cloud envi­ron­ments, and amas­sing more than 50 EPYC™-based plat­forms ship­ping from lea­ding ser­ver providers.

Su show­ed the world’s first 7nm dat­a­cen­ter CPU, code­na­med “Rome,”¹⁰ based on the “Zen 2” x86 core. Su reve­a­led the real-world power of the next gene­ra­ti­on of AMD EPYC™ by demons­t­ra­ting a step-func­tion increase in dat­a­cen­ter pro­ces­sor per­for­mance using the sci­en­ti­fic appli­ca­ti­on NAMD, which simu­la­tes lar­ge bio-mole­cu­lar sys­tems. The demons­tra­ti­on com­pared a sin­gle pre-pro­duc­tion EPYC™ “Rome” pro­ces­sor to two high-end Intel Xeon Pla­ti­num 8180 pro­ces­sors, and the sin­gle next-gene­ra­ti­on EPYC™ pro­ces­sor deli­ver­ed appro­xi­m­ate­ly 15% hig­her per­for­mance¹¹. By using EPYC™-based sys­tems, AMD is hel­ping sci­en­tists to advan­ce their rese­arch and get clo­ser to fin­ding the next big solutions.

The AMD EPYC™ “Rome” pro­ces­sor is on track to start ship­ping in mid-2019.

AMD Mobile Computing Updates

AMD laun­ched the 2^nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobi­le pro­ces­sor with Rade­on™ Vega Gra­phics, deli­ve­ring the world’s fas­test pro­ces­sor for ultrath­in lap­tops. With up to 12 hours of gene­ral pro­duc­ti­vi­ty and 10 hours of video play­back bat­tery life¹², 4K HDR video capa­bi­li­ty and Micro­soft Modern PC fea­tures, the 2^nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobi­le pro­ces­sors deli­ver the ulti­ma­te enter­tain­ment expe­ri­ence for the modern lap­top buyer.

A record num­ber of AMD Ryzen-based note­books powered by the 2^nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobi­le pro­ces­sor with Rade­on™ Vega Gra­phics are expec­ted to be available in 2019 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Hua­wei, Leno­vo and Samsung. 

Supporting Resources

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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, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

Cautionary Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) inclu­ding the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing, deploy­ment, bene­fits and expec­ta­ti­ons of AMD future pro­ducts and tech­no­lo­gies and growth in the indus­try, 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; AMD pro­ducts may be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties that could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; data brea­ches and cyber-attacks could com­pro­mi­se AMD’s intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty or other sen­si­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on, be cos­t­ly to reme­dia­te and cau­se signi­fi­cant dama­ge to its busi­ness and repu­ta­ti­on; AMD’s ope­ra­ting results are sub­ject to quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; 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; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; 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 29, 2018.

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