--Prestigious honors for AMD’s next-generation “Hammer” processor, the AMD Athlon™ XP processor, and the company’s manufacturing excellence--

HANOVER, GERMANY -- March 18, 2002 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that it has captured top European press awards presented at CeBIT, the world’s largest IT tradeshow. They include:

CeBIT Highlights 2002” in the hardware category for AMD’s upcoming “Hammer” processor from CHIP magazine
Innovation of the Year 2001/2002” for the AMD Athlon™ XP processor from PC Professionell
Manufacturer of the Year 2001/2002” from PC Direkt



Full press release : At AMD.com (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~15862,00.html)

Amazing what having the Hammer running Linux and 32 and 64bit bouncing ball demo gets you ;)