TOP TOOL VENDORS ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR UPCOMING AMD
OPTERON(tm) AND AMD ATHLON(tm) PROCESSORS BASED ON HAMMER TECHNOLOGY
-Tool developers' software expected to help speed
adoption and implementation of systems and applications for AMD platforms built
with Hammer technology-
SAN JOSE, CALIF. -JULY 16, 2002- At Platform Conference
2002, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced support for its upcoming AMD OpteronTM and
AMD AthlonTM processors based on Hammer technology from top tool vendors Etnus,
MigraTEC, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and STMicroelectronics.
Tool vendor support is expected to help enable early
adoption of AMD's upcoming Hammer technology-based systems with optimized
hardware and software products. Tools developed will help hardware and software
vendors easily deliver applications and systems to support AMD processors built
with Hammer architecture. Upcoming hardware and software will be designed to
support the x86-64 architecture, helping customers protect current investments
in 32-bit technology, and allowing seamless migration to powerful 64-bit
computing environments as needed.
"Today's announcement adds to the extensive industry
support, which now includes leading operating system, hardware and tool vendors,
for the upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon processors based on Hammer
technology," said Ed Ellett, vice-president of product marketing for AMD's
Computation Products Group. "AMD has passed another major milestone in
assembling the partners, systems and components to facilitate customer adoption
of the upcoming AMD processors."
"Our market-leading Etnus TotalView debugger currently
supports seventh-generation AMD Athlon processors, and we plan to provide 32-bit
support for AMD Athlon processors based on Hammer technology under the Linux
operating system," said Mary Kay Bunde, Director of Market Development, Etnus.
"As AMD prepares to enter the 64-bit commercial server market, Etnus looks
forward to working with AMD in debugging multi-threaded, multi-process software
applications on current and future systems."
"MigraTEC is releasing 64Express for the upcoming AMD
Opteron processor to support the adoption of AMD's x86-64 architecture, which
will accelerate the drive towards 64-bit standards-based computing," said Ulrich
Brechbuhl, president, MigraTEC. "Using 64Express, an automated source code
migration solution, developers will be able to port their 32-bit source code to
AMD's upcoming 64-bit platform and greatly reduce the risk, time and cost of
their migration projects."
"As the leading numerical and statistical components
provider, NAG is developing powerful, robust and reliable numerical libraries to
help extract peak floating point performance and accuracy on the upcoming AMD
Opteron and AMD Athlon processors," said Brian Ford, Director of NAG.
"Developers creating software optimized for AMD processors based on Hammer
Technology will be able to utilize our excellent numerical libraries to speed up
their application development and reduce costs and maintenance."
"AMD and STMicroelectronics are working together to
bring the Portland Group Compiler Technology to the x86-64 architecture on
multiple operating systems," said Vincent J. Schuster, Director of the Portland
Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics. "By providing
high-performance and robust FORTRAN, C and C++ compilation tools, our shared
customers, including individual developers, enterprise users, and the
high-performance computing community, are expected to be able to obtain peak
32-bit and 64-bit performance as well as compatibility from AMD's upcoming
64-bit processors."
AMD Athlon processors based on Hammer technology are
expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2002.
Platform Milestones for AMD Processors Based on Hammer
Technology
6/3/02: AMD Announces Broad Industry Support for
Upcoming AMD Opteron and Eighth-generation AMD Athlon Platforms
5/22/02: AMD Announces 3DLabs, ATI, Matrox and SiS to
Support Upcoming AMD Opteron(tm) and AMD Athlon(tm) Platforms
4/24/02: AMD Announces "AMD Opteron" as Brand For
Next-Generation Server and Workstation Processors
4/24/02: AMD Announces Collaboration With Microsoft to
Incorporate 64-bit Support for the Future Eighth-generation AMD Athlon(tm) and
AMD Opteron(tm) processors
2/26/02: First Public Eighth-Generation Processor Demo
Debuts With 64-bit and 32-bit Technology
10/15/01: AMD Discloses Details of Next-Generation PC
Microprocessor Architecture
2/14/01: AMD Announces HyperTransport(tm) Technology-
Broadcom, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Sun Among First Adopters
1/16/01: AMD and Virtutech Announce High-Performance
Simulator to Help Further Enable 64-Bit Software Development
8/10/00: AMD Releases x86-64 Architectural
Specification- Enables Market Driven Migration to 64-Bit Computing
10/5/99: AMD Announces x86-64 bit Architecture and
Future System Bus
