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Section 9. At all meetings of the Board a majority of the Directors shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of
the Directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act
of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by
statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation. If a quorum shall not be present
at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the Directors present thereat may
adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at
the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.
Section 10. Pursuant to Section 141 (i) of the Delaware Corporation Law,
meetings of the Board of Directors may be held by use of conference telephone
communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the
meeting can hear each other.
Section 11. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of
Incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at
any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken
without a meeting, if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be,
consent thereto in writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings
of the board or committee.
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 12. The Board of Directors may, in the manner provided by law,
designate one or more committees of the board. Any such committee, to the extent
provided in the enabling resolution and permitted by applicable law, shall have
and may exercise the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the
business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the
Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; provided that in
the absence or disqualification of any member of such committee or committees,
the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from
voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint
another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of
any such absent or disqualified member. Such committee or committees shall have
such name or names as they may be determined from time to time by resolution
adopted by the Board of Directors.
Section 13. Meetings of a committee may be called by any member of the
committee upon notice thereof given to each member either by mail not less than
48 hours before the date of the meeting, by telephone or telegram on 24 hours'
notice, or on such shorter notice as the person or persons calling such meeting
may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances. Except as may be
otherwise specifically provided by the Board, at all committee meetings a
majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business and the act of a majority of the members voting at any
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K405, March 21, 2000