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IDC Virtualization Forum, New York - Feb. 7, 2006 - AMD (NYSE:AMD) today
announced the broad availability of its I/O virtualization technology
specification. Demonstrating continued leadership in evolving the
industry-standard x86 processor architecture, AMD is making this
technology available through royalty-free licenses that are designed to
encourage its widespread adoption by hardware and software developers.
By defining a set of technologies that can be directly built into a
computer's I/O bridges, AMD's I/O virtualization technology is designed
to extend the benefits of CPU-assisted virtualization by addressing the
performance bottlenecks and security issues that can be encountered when
virtualizing I/O devices in x86-based servers, desktops, and notebook
computers.

"Continuing our leadership role, AMD's I/O virtualization technology is
expected to provide performance benefits in commercial servers, but it
also opens the door to new and exciting uses for virtualization in
desktop and notebook PCs, where device virtualization is particularly
challenging," said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial
Business and Performance Computing, Microprocessor Solutions Sector,
AMD. "We have embraced the industry's ecosystem, and are very pleased to
continue our collaborative approach to the development of AMD's
virtualization technology by sharing this specification publicly and
making it available through licenses across the hardware and software
development community."

AMD's collaborative approach to providing the industry with leading edge
technology designed to enable virtualization solutions is also
demonstrated through ongoing and strategic alliances with industry
leaders including Microsoft, VMware and XenSource.

"Virtualization helps customers overcome the physical boundaries and
underused capacity of IT systems, and is a key stepping stone for
customers to increase operational efficiency and become more dynamic and
responsive to business needs," said Jeff Price, senior director, Windows
Server Division, Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is working closely with AMD
to help open the way for a new class of innovation, to make IT systems
not only more cost-effective, but also more secure, manageable, and
interoperable." "VMware's virtual infrastructure software has
revolutionized the way customers run their data centers," said Raghu
Raghuram, vice president, platforms products at VMware. "An important
enabler of this is our collaboration with key partners to help ensure
that the mix of hardware and software innovation delivers the highest
performance, most robust virtualization possible. We look forward to
working with AMD on I/O virtualization to further advance the
state-of-the-art in virtual infrastructure and to help ensure that
virtualization on AMD64 technology-based systems is optimized to serve
the needs of enterprise customers."

"Assisted virtualization for I/O devices is the next logical step in
hardware virtualization," said Simon Crosby, chief technology officer,
XenSource, Inc. "The open availability of AMD's I/O virtualization
technology underscores that AMD is aligned with XenSource in their
efforts to lead the industry forward by developing open and open-source
x86-based virtualization technologies."

AMD's CPU virtualization technology (formerly referred to by the code
name "Pacifica") delivers CPU efficiencies to traditional software
only-based virtualization approaches. AMD I/O virtualization technology
complements and extends these efficiencies by providing mechanisms to
support virtualization software in managing, partitioning, and securing
I/O devices, which is anticipated to result in improved performance and
less implementation complexity in providing I/O in virtual environments.

AMD's I/O virtualization technology is expected to be supported by all
AMD processors in mid-2006, and is also anticipated to be implemented in
chipsets and core logic designed for AMD64-based platforms in 2006. The
AMD I/O virtualization technology specification download, together with
technology overviews and guidance to software developers who are
designing virtualization solutions for 64-bit technology, can be found
at http://developer.amd.com

About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and
consumer electronics markets. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to
delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that
empower users worldwide. For more information visit http://www.amd.com