AMD Press Releases

• AMD Appoints John Byrne as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that industry veteran John Byrne has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Accounts. In this newly created position, Byrne will be responsible for ensuring AMD’s worldwide sales organization effectively addresses customer needs by exceeding the expecta...
  
  

• AMD Radeon™ Breaks GHz Barrier
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of its AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GHz Edition and HD 7750 graphics cards. The AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is the first graphics card equipped with a reference engine clock that breaks the one gigahertz barrier – making it the world’s first 1GHz GPU. When coupled with AMD’s...
  
  

• SGI® ICE™ Supercomputer Speeds to Benchmark Record
  

  SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that its SGI® ICE™ 8400 high performance compute (HPC) system with AMD Opteron™ 6200 processors achieved the top performance number for 64-, 32-, 16-, 8-, and 4-socket configurations for the SPECMPIL2007 benchmark. The SPECMPIL benchmark is SPEC's "benchmark suite...
  
  

• AMD to Present at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Thomas Seifert, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference at 9:10 a.m. PST on Thursday, March 1, 2012 in San Francisco.

  A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed on the Investor Relations homepag...
  
  

• AMD Named to Top 20 of Clean Capitalism Ranking
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) was today named by Corporate Knights to its inaugural list of the S&P 500 Clean Capitalism Ranking, placing among the top twenty companies to be recognized. Corporate Knights, which defines “clean capitalism” as “responsible, resou...
  
  

• AMD FirePro™ V3900 Brings Unbeaten Workstation-Class Design Experiences to Entry-Level Professional Graphics
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the AMD FirePro™ V3900, which enables best-in-class workstation experiences at an entry-level price point. By leveraging AMD's latest graphics features, including AMD Eyefinity technology, the AMD FirePro™ V3900 provides up to 95% better application performance than the competition.¹ Th...
  
  

• AMD Announces Departure of Emilio Ghilardi as Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the departure of Emilio Ghilardi as senior vice president and chief sales officer, effective immediately. Rory Read, AMD president and chief executive officer, will serve as interim chief sales office...
  
  

• AMD Strategy Transformation Brings Agile Delivery of Industry-Leading IP to the Market
  

  At its annual Financial Analyst Day, AMD (NYSE: AMD) detailed a new “ambidextrous” strategy that builds on the company’s long history of x86 and graphics innovation while embracing other technologies and intellectual property to deliver differentiated products.

  AMD is adopting an SoC-centric roadmap desi...
  
  

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7950 Graphics Added to Arsenal of Next Generation Graphics
  

  AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced worldwide availability of the AMD Radeon™ HD 7950 graphics card for desktop computers. This launch brings to market the second graphics card based on the cutting-edge 28nm process technology first introduced with the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 graphics card – recognized for its excellenc...
  
  

• AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual Results
  

  AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 of $1.69 billion, net loss of $177 million, or $0.24 per share, and operating income of $71 million.  The company reported non-GAAP net income of $138 million, or $0.19 per share, and non-GAAP op...