AMD ramps 0.17-Micron flash memory products from new joint venture

AMD RAMPS 0.17-MICRON FLASH
MEMORY PRODUCTS FROM NEW JOINT VENTURE FAB



-Technology and fab qualification, revenue shipments attained in
record time-



SUNNYVALE, CA-NOVEMBER 5, 2001-AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that it
started shipping a family of industry-leading flash memory products
based on 0.17-micron process technology from its newest joint venture
fab.  This new technology enables reduced cost and power
consumption while increasing levels of performance for target
applications. Cellular phones, two-way pagers, PDAs, and automotive
applications such as  remote diagnostics, theft tracking, GPS
navigation, and on-board voice recognition will benefit from the new
flash memory devices.



The products are being built in the new JV3 Fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu,
Japan.  The JV3 Fab was built, qualified and released to
production months ahead of schedule.  Groundbreaking occurred in
June 2000 and volume revenue shipments commenced this quarter. The
facility is owned by Fujitsu-AMD Semiconductor Limited (FASL), a joint
venture between AMD and Fujitsu.



"To go from groundbreaking to volume production on 0.17-micron
technology in five quarters is a tremendous achievement," said
Walid Maghribi, AMD's senior vice president and president of the
company's Memory Group. "With this rapid move to cost-effective
0.17-micron process technology, our FASL venture is perfectly
positioned to address the largest and most demanding segments of the
flash memory market."



"Our process technology is timed to hit the 'sweet spot' of the
market and enables our customers to gain access to an industry-leading
cost structure," added Maghribi.  "Ramping our advanced
0.17-micron process allows us to offer 64Mb Flash devices for $12.50
today, well below any comparable device on the market."



AMD Flash Memory Awards



AMD's Flash memory products have received numerous customer service,
quality and technology awards. The most recent Flash memory awards
include: Bosch's top memory supplier for 1999-2000, Cisco Systems'
highest customer satisfaction recognition - the 2000 Cisco President's
Award, the Nortel 2000 " Supplier of the Year" award, the
Samsung 2000 " Best Supplier" award, the Volkswagen 1999
" Leading Edge" award and the Cisco 1999 "Semiconductor
Supplier of the Year" award.



About AMD Flash Memory Devices



AMD technology is employed by the world's largest producer of Flash
memory devices, Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Ltd. (FASL). AMD Flash
memory products encompass a broad spectrum of densities and features
to support a wide range of markets. AMD Flash memory customers
represent leaders in the automotive, networking, telecommunications,
and handheld mobile terminal markets.  AMD offers many Flash
memory products, such as the award-winning Simultaneous Read-Write (SRW)
product family; Super Low Voltage 1.8V Flash memory devices; and
Burst- and Page-Mode devices. AMD developed the robust Known Good Die
(KGD) program and the patented negative gate erase technology, and
refined the industry-standard Fine-pitch Ball Grid Array (FBGA).



All AMD Flash memory devices are guaranteed by AMD for a minimum of
one million write cycles per sector and 20 years' data retention,
making them the most reliable non-volatile memory devices in the
industry.

 

AMD's Flash memory devices have received an EnergyStar® Certificate
of Recognition from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US
Department of Energy.  Products with the EnergyStar label are
designed to use less energy and help protect the environment.



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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