AMD 1995 Annual Report Download - page 219

In January of this year we completed our acquisition of NexGen, Inc.,
significantly enhancing our core competency in advanced microprocessor design
and acquiring a sixth-generation microprocessor design in an advanced stage of
development.
With this design, the AMD-K6(TM) microprocessor, we expect to have--for the
first time in our history--microprocessor products competitive with Intel's
latest mainstream products in a contemporaneous time frame in 1997. The key to
achieving success, of course, is flawless execution.
We believe the future of computation is increasingly being driven by convergence
with communications. Communications networks, including the public and private
infrastructure and wireless technologies, present great opportunities for AMD.
AMD is now the world's number one supplier of integrated circuits for local area
network applications. In 1996 we expect to supply more than 10 million
networking devices to the manufacturers of adapter cards, backbones, routers,
and other devices. AMD is a leading supplier to industry leaders such as Cisco
Systems, whose products supply more than 80 percent of the backbone of the
Internet -- and virtually every Cisco product contains an AMD chip. Indeed, the
path to the Internet is paved with AMD silicon!
AMD's SLIC (subscriber line interface circuit) and SLAC(TM) (subscriber line
audio-processing circuit) products have made AMD the world's leading supplier of
circuits for linecards for the public communications infrastructure. We have a
similar credential in the private infrastructure (i.e., enterprise networks) as
well, where we are the leading supplier of Ethernet hubs and FDDI (Fiber
Distributed Data Interface) circuits.
Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K405, March 21, 1996