OFFICER OF AMD
SUNNYVALE, CA - April 25, 2002 - AMD announced today
that Hector de J. Ruiz has been elected chief executive officer. The action came
at a board of directors meeting in New York following the annual shareholder
meeting. W.J. Sanders III was elected chairman.
Ruiz, 56, has been president and chief operating officer
of AMD since January 2000. Sanders, 65, is a co-founder of AMD and has served as
chief executive officer of the company since its founding on May 1, 1969.
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 $3.9 billion in
2001. (NYSE: AMD).
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
