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Abgar V

On August 24, 2009, the board of the Central Bank of Armenia adopted a decision on introducing a new banknote with a nominal value of AMD 100,000.

AMD 10h

In November 2007 AMD stopped delivery of Barcelona processors after a bug in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of stepping B2 was discovered that could rarely lead to a race condition and thus a system lockup.

AMD FireStream

One of the supporting firms was PeakStream (acquired by Google in June 2007), who was first to provide an open beta version of software to support CTM and AMD FireStream as well as x86 and Cell (Cell Broadband Engine) processors.

AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture

AMD Accelerated Processing Unit, a computer APU brand (formerly known as AMD Fusion)

Artronix

The company later developed another product line of brain-scanning or computed tomography equipment based on the Lockheed SUE 16-bit minicomputer (see also Pluribus); later designs included an optional vector processor using AMD Am2900 bipolar bit-slices to speed tomographic reconstruction calculations.

Bijan Jazani

Shortly after that the remaining mebers of the group including Hamid Ashraf amd Masoud Ahmadzadeh reorganized and renamed it to Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas (چريك فداييان خلق ايران).

Cliff Morgan

Returning to the BBC he then produced amd edited established TV sports programmes such as Grandstand and Sportsnight With Coleman, and, from 1970, was himself one of the original team captains (opposite Henry Cooper) on the long-running TV quiz A Question of Sport.

DarkSpace

2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4/AMD Sempron Processor, Windows XP/Vista/7, Dedicated graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 9500GT / AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series or better), 1 GB of RAM (2 GB for Vista/7), 200 MB free hard drive space, Broadband internet connection, Direct Input compatible mouse, DirectX 9.0c or higher.

David Cheriton

Kealia designed Magnum, a high capacity InfiniBand switch; Galaxy, a range of blade servers based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor; and Thumper, an enterprise grade network attached storage system.

David E. Orton

After the announced merger of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and COO Dirk Meyer.

Dusan Krajcinovic

He was ASME Fellow and Chair of AMD Executive Committee (2001-2002), Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and President (1999-2001), as well as Member of the Stability Research Council, the International Association for Structural Engineering in Reactor Technology, and non-member advisor of the ASCE Committee for Inelastic Behavior of Materials).

Fons Trompenaars

In 1989 together with Charles Hampden-Turner he founded and directed the consultancy firm Centre for International Business Studies, working for such companies as BP, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, Honeywell.

G34

Socket G34, a CPU socket designed by AMD to support AMD's multi-chip module Opteron 6000-series server processors

GDDR5

On February 20, 2013, it was announced that the PlayStation 4 will utilize 16x4 Gbit (i.e. 16x512 MiB) GDDR5 memory chips for 8 GiB of GDDR5 @ 176 GB/s (CK 1.375 GHz and WCK 2.75 GHz) as combined system and graphics RAM for use with its AMD-powered APU.

Hector Ruiz

Ruiz worked at Texas Instruments for six years and Motorola for 22 years, rising to become president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector before being recruited in 2000 by AMD founder Jerry Sanders to serve as AMD's president and chief operating officer, and to become heir apparent to lead the company upon Sanders' retirement.

Heka

AMD Phenom II, core name for a triple-core in the Phenom II CPU-line from AMD.

HyperCloud Memory

:At Interop New York, Netlist demonstrated 100 virtual machines on a HP DL385 G7 dual socket server with AMD's Opteron 8-core CPUs and 24 memory slots using HyperCloud memory.

INCITE

The Cray XT system utilizes over 45,000 of the latest quad-core Opteron processors from AMD and features 362 terabytes of memory and a 10-petabyte file system.

Kerinchi LRT station

The station also offers a facility for reloading the Touch 'n Go card at the Maybank ATM amd CIMB ATM.

Monolithic Memories

MMI was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 1987, though AMD later spun off their programmable logic division as Vantis, which was then acquired by Lattice Semiconductor.

NaN

most processors (including those of the Intel/AMD x86-32/x86-64 family, the Motorola 68000 family, the AIM PowerPC family, the ARM family, and the Sun SPARC family) set the signaled/quiet bit to non-zero if the NaN is quiet, and to zero if the NaN is signaling.

Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

TPMs are already integrated in many systems using Intel's Core 2 Duo processors or AMD's Athlon 64 processors using the AM2 socket.

Open Platform Management Architecture

AMD engineering teams were internally tasked with building server reference designs to support Opteron server processor evaluation by customers.

Open64

The 2010 Open64 Developers Forum describes projects done at Absoft, AMD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, HP, National Tsing Hua University, Nvidia, Tensilica, Tsinghua University, and University of Houston.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Osseiran

Ali Osseiran, Lebanese politician, MP amd former Lebanese government minister

PlayStation 4 technical specifications

The PlayStation 4 uses a semi-custom accelerated processing unit (APU) developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony and is manufactured on the TSMC 28 nm process node.

Poliforum Zamna

Rocio Durcal, Timbiriche, Vicente Fernandez, Gloria Trevi, Veronica Castro, Maribel Guardia, Pepe Aguilar, Mana, Thalia, Lorena Herrera, Banda el Recodo amd many others have performed here in its over 30-year history.

PowerColor

PowerColor's AMD video cards range from affordable cards appropriate for low-end workstations, to cards for high-end gaming machines, thus catering to a wide range of the market.

Qimonda

Qimonda has other strategic alliances with China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Co., Ltd., SMIC, Winbond Electronics Corporation, IBM, Altis, AMD (for ATI graphics products), Toppan Photomasks, Spansion, and Sandisk.

Roberto Curilovic

They were sent to the air naval base at Landivisiau in Finistère, north-west France where they then learnt how to fly the AMD-BA Super Étendard, being given up to 50 hours of flight training each.

Russell Bate

Russell Bate, OAM is the Country Alliance spokesperson; chairs Majitek Pty Ltd amd the Firearms Safety Foundation of Victoria.

Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara

This came as a result of the March 18 attempt at a coup d'état by the Alliance for a Democratic Mauritania (AMD).

SiS 630/730

The SiS 630 and SiS 730 are a family of highly integrated chipsets for Intel (Slot 1/Socket 370) and AMD (Slot A/Socket A) respectively.

Soldenfeldts Stiftelse

They were created by the sculptor Carl Aarsleff amd represent the virtues which the residents were originally expected to possess.

They Cut Off The Little Boy's Hair

They Cut Off The Little Boy's Hair is the English language version of Vladimír Mišík amd Etc..

Troublemaker Studios

The company's visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions.

Ultra-mobile PC

In September 2006, Raon Digital launched the Vega running an AMD Geode LX800, 256 MB of RAM, and a 30 GB hard drive.

Vector Pascal

AMD Opteron processor, the Opteron compiler supports multi-core parallelism

Wachter

Marcia De Wachter (born 1953), Belgian businesswoman amd Director of the National Bank of Belgium

Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

It commonly featured speeches from people such as Bill Gates, and generally had several sponsors including Intel, AMD, ATI and others.

XFX

Originally, XFX only produced Nvidia graphics cards, however during the beginning of 2009 XFX decided to begin manufacturing ATi (now AMD) graphics cards as well.

XOP

XOP instruction set, a computer instruction set introduced by AMD in 2009


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