AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a major strategic initiative to support the Open Source development community for ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. The week of September 10th, AMD plans to provide an open source information and development package supporting the ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 series as well as ATI Radeon™ X1000 series of graphics processing units (GPU) on Linux desktops.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced plans to extend its leadership position in Graphics software with major enhancements to performance and compatibility for ATI Radeon™ graphics for consumer Linux users.

AMD today announced further plans to innovate the x86 architecture by introducing SSE5, a new extension of the x86 instruction set that is designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency for the most performance-hungry applications.

Further demonstrating its ability to add value and enable differentiation for solution providers to compete, AMD announced enhancements to AMD Validated Solutions (AVS) including single-socket server motherboards with new platform providers, as well as advanced motherboard exchange.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. announced the closing of its offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012. The notes were privately offered to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Advanced Micro Devices will start selling its quad-core Barcelona Opteron processors in August.

Advanced Micro Devices plans to release new platform named Puma based on mobile processor named Griffin and a new RS780 chip set. The new mobile computer is planned to be available in the middle of 2008.

Advanced Micro Devices will unveil its new quad-core Phenom desktop processors this year.

Premier power supply vendors offering 110 new products certified for use with the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.

Next-generation graphics cards unleash the power of DirectX® 10 for immersive high-definition gaming, and offer exclusive HD multimedia features such as HDMI for high-fidelity audio and video, all at unbelievable prices.

AMD makes first public demonstration of all-AMD enthusiast platform codenamed "FASN8" - Industry's only true x86 quad-core architecture paired with the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2000 series to offer a phenomenal computing experience.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. today announced the closing of its offering of $2.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2015, including $200 million of notes that were issued in connection with the exercise in full of the initial purchasers' over-allotment option.