MOSCOW, RUSSIA-DECEMBER 10, 2002-AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that Rambler, one of the leading Internet portals in Russia, has selected servers from Tyan Platforms based on AMD Athlon(tm) MP processors to upgrade its search system.

The Rambler search system contains information from more than 47 million documents from Internet servers in Russia and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Rambler has recently passed the benchmark of two million search requests a day, an average of over 50 requests per second. With new AMD Athlon MP processor-based servers from Tyan Platforms, the Rambler search engine has enough power to introduce new search algorithms that index dynamic Web pages and provide finer Web site ranking in search results.

"In making the decision to upgrade Rambler's mission-critical search engine equipment, our first priorities were high-performance and reliability of the systems," said Ivan Zasursky, deputy general director, Rambler. "Before our AMD processor-based servers, our record indexing capacity was 4,410,303 Web pages per day and now we have set a new record of 6,993,403 Web pages per day. We fully expect the new server solution powered by AMD to deliver the right mix of stability and performance to effectively support our users' search requests."

"Working closely with our customers, AMD is committed to provide high-performance computing solutions for ISPs and the enterprise market sector in Russia," said Giuliano Meroni, vice president, Sales and Marketing, AMD Europe. "Servers powered by AMD Athlon MP processors provide the levels of reliability and stability required by Internet service providers."