AMD Duron P.C's chosen for education program in europe

AMD DURON(tm) PROCESSOR-BASED COMPUTERS
CHOSEN FOR MAJOR EDUCATION PROGRAM IN EUROPE



-AMD teams with Italian OEM CDC to provide 60,000 PCs to Italian Government
Organization-





MILAN, ITALY-NOVEMBER 13, 2001-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that an Italian
government organization has selected AMD Duron(tm) processor-based personal
computers for a major information technology and English language-training
program in southern Italy. 



CDC SpA, a leading manufacturer of desktop PCs in Italy, will provide 60,000
personal computers based on the 1.1GHz AMD Duron processor.  The CDC
systems were chosen by Italia Lavoro, an Italian government organization serving
the Italian Ministry of Labor and Social Security.  They will be built in
Italy by Micronica, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC, and are expected to be
delivered by the end of 2002.



"We are delighted that CDC has provided a winning solution based on our
technology for this major educational investment in Italy," said Giuliano
Meroni, AMD vice president of Sales and Marketing, Europe. "CDC's decision
offers further validation that systems based on AMD's award-winning processors
and Socket A platform are capable of meeting the stability and reliability
requirements of educational and government sectors."



"Since the very beginning, CDC has been proactive in promoting and
supporting computer literacy in Italy," said Giuseppe Diomelli, CDC SpA
Chairman and CEO. "We are pleased to be working with AMD to offer PCs with
outstanding performance as instruments for e-learning and vocational
training."



According to Gartner-Dataquest, AMD has experienced significant PC processor
(Windows®-based desktops) market share growth of 66% from the third quarter
2000 through the third quarter 2001, in the education segment in Europe. 
In Italy, AMD's market share in the education segment reached 37% in the third
quarter 2001.  AMD continues to vigorously pursue opportunities to bring
reliable and stable platforms to business, government, and education end users.



About the AMD Duron(tm) processor



The AMD Duron processor is a derivative of the award-winning AMD Athlon(tm)
processor and is designed to provide practical performance for everyday
computing for business and home users. Employing an innovative design, the AMD
Duron processor features a sophisticated cache architecture with 192KB of total
on-chip cache, a high-speed 200MHz front-side bus, and a superscalar floating
point unit with 3DNow!(tm) Professional technology, and hardware data pre-fetch.



The AMD Duron processor offers buyers access to technology and performance that
stands out among other processors in its class. It reflects AMD's 30 years of
design and manufacturing expertise and sales of more than 175 million PC
processors. AMD Duron processors are manufactured on AMD's 0.18-micron process
technology in Fab 25, Austin, Texas.



About AMD



AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked
computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United
States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's
500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support
circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and
based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $4.6 billion in 2000. (NYSE:
AMD).





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