AMD ATHLON(tm) XP PROCESSOR COMBINED WITH NVIDIA(r)
NFORCE2 PLATFORM PROCESSORS TO PROVIDE OUTSTANDING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
-Systems based on AMD Athlon and AMD Duron(tm) processor
family products and NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors expected to offer
increased memory bandwidth and connectivity, and exceptional graphics
performance -
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -JULY 16, 2002- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today
announced support for NVIDIA(r) nForce2 - NVIDIA's upcoming family of highly
integrated core-logic platform processors. NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors
will be optimized for systems with AMD Athlon(tm) XP and AMD Duron(tm)
processors.
Enterprise and individual customers can expect to
benefit from an AMD and NVIDIA nForce2 platform. High-speed PC3200 DDR memory
will provide enterprise customers optimized execution of multi-threaded,
mission-critical applications, and the 128-bit architecture can reduce memory
latency enabling faster system and content creation performance. Individual
users can expect to realize exceptional audio and gaming performance with
real-time audio encoding of up to 256 simultaneous audio streams, and
outstanding graphics and streaming audio and video with NVIDIA StreamThru(tm)
technology featuring HyperTransport(tm) technology.
"The exceptional performance achieved by coupling the
latest
AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processor technologies with the
upcoming NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors is continued proof that significant
performance breakthroughs can be achieved using open, industry standards," said
Rich Heye, vice president platform engineering and infrastructure, Computation
Products Group, AMD. "With support for both AGP-8X and HyperTransport
technology, the AMD and NVIDIA platform will deliver fast and efficient
processing power and overall system performance."
"AMD processors provide the best complement to our new
highly integrated nForce2 Platform Processors," said Drew Henry, senior director
of platform product management at NVIDIA. "We have worked closely with AMD to
fine-tune our engineering designs to ensure that nForce2 Platform Processors
take full advantage of the architectural innovations of AMD's desktop
processors." Demonstrations of systems based on AMD and NVIDIA nForce2 Platform
Processors will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Platform Conference,
being held today and tomorrow at the Silicon Valley Conference Center in San
Jose, CA.
About HyperTransport(tm) Technology
HyperTransport technology is a high-speed,
high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits, and is designed
to meet the bandwidth needs of tomorrow's computing and communications
platforms. HyperTransport technology helps reduce the number of buses while
providing a high-performance link for PCs, workstations, and servers, as well as
numerous embedded applications and highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It
is designed to allow chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices
to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than with some existing bus
technologies.
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the
personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing
facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and
Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices,
and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in
1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in
2001. (NYSE: AMD).
