AMD's newest mobile processor delivers exceptional notebook PC performance for business and home consumers - AMD Athlon XP 1800+ - Product Announcement

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, July 22, 2002

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has introduced the high-performance mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 with QuantiSpeed architecture. With AMD PowerNow! technology, the newest mobile AMD Athlon XP processor gives business and home consumers a dynamic power management tool for performance on demand and enables a cooler, quieter notebook PC.

"Notebook PC enthusiasts trust and depend on AMD to deliver an exceptional computing experience with leading-edge software application performance," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "AMD is dedicated to excellence and continuously innovates with the customers' needs in mind. The newest addition to the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor family gives business and home consumers greater choices in the notebook PC market with solutions they can rely on for true, high-performance computing."

Notebook PCs powered by the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 , based on 0.13 micron technology, are available today from Hewlett-Packard Company and ACER Europe.

"AMD mobile processors offer the ultimate price performance and are consistent with HP product offerings that serve our consumer and small office notebook PC users," said Jonathan Kaye, notebook product marketing manager, HP Personal Systems Group. "The introduction of the newest mobile AMD Athlon XP processor will provide customers who rely on HP notebook PCs a broad range of performance and features for their specific computing needs."

"The introduction of the new notebook Acer Aspire 1300, featuring the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 , provides users with a powerful platform designed to deliver exceptional performance for a wide range of applications, from office work to personal entertainment," said Gianfranco Lanci, president ACER EMEA.

AMD's high-performance mobile processors enable infrastructure partners to jump-start system performance by offering notebook PCs based on the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor and double data rate (DDR) memory. Systems featuring DDR memory can provide business and home consumers performance gains on memory-intensive applications such as Internet content creation, gaming and office productivity. With QuantiSpeed architecture, the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 also enables extreme performance for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

"The ATI RADEON IGP320M chipset enables exciting new platforms and provides today's mobile customers with feature-rich, high-performance graphics in a power-efficient design," said Rajesh Shakkarwar, director of marketing, Integrated Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "The ATI RADEON IGP320M chipset can enable DDR memory technology on the AMD Athlon mobile platform, further enhancing performance of systems based on the AMD Athlon XP mobile processor."

The HP Pavilion ZE1250 notebook PC featuring the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 is available today at retail stores in the United States. The Compaq Presario 900 series notebook PCs will also feature the new AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 and is expected to be available later this month directly through www.hp.com.

Notebook PCs based on the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 are also available today from ACER Europe in its Acer Aspire 1300 series.

The new mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800 is priced at $335, in 1,000-unit quantities.