03.67.2005 - AMD Gives High-End Embedded Designers A New Choice With Longevity Program For The AMD Opteron™ Processor

SAN FRANCISCO -- March 8, 2005 --At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced a program that offers an extended product life cycle to support system designers in the high-end, high-performance embedded market with the AMD Opteron™ processor. The stable and reliable AMD64 platform with Direct Connect Architecture will now be offered with an extended standard availability period of five years for a select set of the AMD Opteron processor family. AMD is providing customers in telecommunications servers, storage systems, digital imaging devices and custom embedded markets an unparalleled choice in x86-based advanced processor architecture. - View Press Release - Visit AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)