AMD & NVIDIA's nFORCE Chipset

AMD ANNOUNCES THE WORLD'S FIRST
HYPERTRANSPORT(tm) IMPLEMENTATION - NVIDIA'S

nFORCE CHIPSET





SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA-JUNE 4, 2001-AMD today announced that NVIDIA has

incorporated AMD's HyperTransportTM data bus technology into its new nForce

platform processing architecture, becoming the first chipset to incorporate

AMD's innovative data bus technology.



More than 150 companies are working with AMD to drive the development of

HyperTransport technology. NVIDIA is yet another example of an industry

heavyweight implementing AMD's HyperTransport technology to help increase

the performance of its products.



AMD's HyperTransport is an innovative technology that enables the computer

chips inside a vast range of different types of systems to communicate with

each other faster compared with existing technologies. In NVIDIA's case, the

HyperTransport technology is designed to deliver up to a six-fold increase

in bandwidth between the nForce Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) and

nForce Media and Communications Processor (MCP).



The NVIDIA nForce platform processing architecture combines NVIDIA's award

winning graphics with the industry's first implementation of the new Dolby

Digital Interactive Content Encoder, a breakthrough technology built in the

MCP that dynamically encodes multi-channel audio into Dolby Digital 5.1 in

real-time.



"NVIDIA's incorporation of AMD's HyperTransport technology is critical in

our quest to deliver unmatched system performance," said Dan Vivoli, vice

president of marketing at NVIDIA. "Today's PC applications are
increasingly

complex with advanced 3D graphics, high-speed networking, streaming video,

and cinematic 3D audio. In fact, the bandwidth supplied by HyperTransport

allowed us to implement full Dolby Digital 5.1 3D audio processing and

broadband networking in the MCP, something no other current technology

allowed us to do."



Both AMD and NVIDIA have supported Double Data Rate (DDR) memory for PCs and

video cards. The NVIDIA nForce platform processing architecture includes a

128-bit memory interface that is designed to double the peak data throughput

over today's PC2100 DDR systems to 4.2GBytes per second, which is 33% more

than dual channel RAMBUS Pentium® 4 systems.



"Coupled with the AMD Athlon processor and DDR memory, NVIDIA's newest

chipset solution provides performance, mainstream and entry solutions for

x86 PCs that will continue to deliver on the AMD Athlon promise to give you

the ultimate computing experience," said Richard Heye, Vice President,

Platform Engineering & Infrastructure of AMD's Computation Products Group.

"This is yet another example of AMD pushing new and customer beneficial

technologies into the market."



About HyperTransport(tm) Technology



HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance,

point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a

universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within

the system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications, and

enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It was designed to enable

the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to

communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than with existing

technologies.



Compared with existing system interconnects that provide bandwidth up to

266MB/sec, HyperTransport technology's potential peak bandwidth of

12.8GB/sec represents better than a 40-fold increase in data throughput.

HyperTransport technology provides an extremely fast connection that

complements externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component

Interconnect (PCI), as well as emerging technologies like InfiniBand.

HyperTransport technology is designed to provide the bandwidth that the new

InfiniBand standard requires to communicate with memory and system

components inside of next-generation servers and devices that may power the

backbone infrastructure of the telecom industry. HyperTransport technology

is targeted primarily at the information technology and telecom industries,

but any application in which high speed, low latency and scalability is

necessary can potentially take advantage of HyperTransport technology.



HyperTransport technology also has a unique daisy-chainable feature, giving

the opportunity to connect multiple HyperTransport input/output bridges to a

single channel. HyperTransport technology is designed to support up to 32

devices per channel and can mix and match components with different bus

widths and speeds.



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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