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AMD Announces New AM1 Platform

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Brings Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) gra­phics to AMD Ath­lon and AMD Sem­pron APU pro­ducts to World­wi­de Com­po­nent Chan­nel plat­forms enab­ling new power-effi­ci­ent and fea­ture-rich small form fac­tor PCs



SUNNYVALE, Calif. —3/4/2014 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced the intro­duc­tion of its AM1 plat­form fea­turing the AMD quad-core and dual-core “Kabi­ni” APU into the com­po­nent chan­nel for sys­tem buil­ders. Com­bi­ned with mother­boards from lea­ding manu­fac­tu­r­ers, the new AM1 plat­form will deli­ver award-win­ning Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re and AMD “Jagu­ar” CPU cores, and bear the AMD Ath­lon™ and AMD Sem­pron™ APU brands. This will crea­te an eco­sys­tem of fle­xi­ble and upgrada­ble plat­forms at com­pel­ling pri­ce points that also fea­ture USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s sup­port, and microATX and miniITX mother­boards for sleek and power-effi­ci­ent small form fac­tor PCs. Avai­la­bi­li­ty of “Kabi­ni” desk­tops and com­pon­ents are sla­ted to be on-shelf in sel­ect regi­ons begin­ning ear­ly April, with glo­bal avai­la­bi­li­ty expec­ted on April 9.

“AMD con­ti­nues our APU tech­no­lo­gy lea­der­ship by intro­du­cing the AM1 plat­form with ‘Socke­ted Kabi­ni’, an APU desi­gned for the main­stream mar­ket,” said Bernd Lien­hard, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Cli­ent Busi­ness Unit, AMD. “The AM1 plat­form gives us a gre­at oppor­tu­ni­ty to deli­ver a fle­xi­ble infra­struc­tu­re envi­ron­ment, and pro­vi­des a multi­tu­de of opti­ons for con­su­mers and sys­tem buil­ders loo­king for upgradea­bi­li­ty packed into an extre­me­ly afforda­ble solution.”

“Socke­ted Kabi­ni” allows for excep­tio­nal pro­duc­ti­vi­ty, web brow­sing, and com­pu­te acce­le­ra­ti­on for the lar­ger main­stream, emer­ging mar­kets loo­king for out­stan­ding value and per­for­mance at low power.

The AMD AM1 plat­form deli­vers balan­ced com­pu­ting with DirectX® 11.2 and Win­dows 8.1 sup­port to main­stream mar­kets. In addi­ti­on, mother­board manu­fac­tu­r­ers inclu­ding, ASRock, ASUS, BIOSTAR, ECS, Giga­byte and MSI are poi­sed to deli­ver a ran­ge of next- gene­ra­ti­on desk­top mother­boards based on socket FS1b. The­se mother­boards will sup­port the latest spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons of nati­ve USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s for AMD Ath­lon and Sem­pron-series APUs for the AM1 plat­form. For more infor­ma­ti­on on AMD mother­board part­ners, plea­se visit:

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Cautionary Statement

This Press Release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning AMD, inclu­ding, the timing, fea­tures and avai­la­bi­li­ty of “Kabi­ni” APU’s for desk­tops and com­pon­ents; 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,” “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 Release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Risks include the pos­si­bi­li­ty that that Intel Corporation’s pri­cing, mar­ke­ting and reba­ting pro­grams, pro­duct bund­ling, stan­dard set­ting, new pro­duct intro­duc­tions or other acti­vi­ties may nega­tively impact the Company’s plans; that the Com­pa­ny will requi­re addi­tio­nal fun­ding and may be unable to rai­se suf­fi­ci­ent capi­tal on favorable terms, or at all; that cus­to­mers stop buy­ing the Company’s pro­ducts or mate­ri­al­ly redu­ce their ope­ra­ti­ons or demand for its pro­ducts; that the Com­pa­ny 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 the Company’s third-par­ty foundry sup­pli­ers will be unable to tran­si­ti­on the Company’s pro­ducts to advan­ced manu­fac­tu­ring pro­cess tech­no­lo­gies in a time­ly and effec­ti­ve way or to manu­fac­tu­re the Company’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve pro­cess tech­no­lo­gies; that the Com­pa­ny will be unable to obtain suf­fi­ci­ent manu­fac­tu­ring capa­ci­ty or com­pon­ents to meet demand for its pro­ducts or will not ful­ly uti­li­ze the Company’s pro­jec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring capa­ci­ty needs at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) micro­pro­ces­sor manu­fac­tu­ring faci­li­ties; that the Company’s requi­re­ments for wafers will be less than the fixed num­ber of wafers that we agreed to purcha­se from GF or GF encoun­ters pro­blems that signi­fi­cant­ly redu­ce the num­ber of func­tion­al die the Com­pa­ny recei­ves from each wafer; that the Com­pa­ny is unable to suc­cessful­ly imple­ment its long-term busi­ness stra­tegy; that the Com­pa­ny 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 the Com­pa­ny 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 the Company’s pro­ducts; that the Com­pa­ny 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 the Company’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, inclu­ding con­su­mer 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 the Company’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 Annu­al Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended Decem­ber 28, 2013.