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Our current assembly and test facilities for microprocessor and Flash memory products are described in the chart set forth below:
Facility Location
Approximate
Manufacturing
Area Square
Footage Activity
Computation Products
Penang, Malaysia 112,000 Assembly & Test
Singapore 194,000 Test
Suzhou, China 44,310 Test
Flash Memory Products
Bangkok, Thailand 78,000 Assembly & Test
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 71,300 Assembly & Test
Penang, Malaysia 71,000 Assembly & Test
Suzhou, China 30,250 Assembly & Test
Some assembly and final testing of our microprocessor and personal connectivity solutions products is also performed by subcontractors in the United
States and Asia.
Intellectual Property and Licensing
We rely on a combination of protections provided by contracts, copyrights, patents, trademarks and other common law rights such as trade secret laws, to
protect our products and technologies from unauthorized third-party copying and use. As of December 26, 2004, we had more than 6,500 U.S. patents and had
over 2,000 patent applications pending in the United States. In certain cases, we have filed corresponding applications in foreign jurisdictions. We expect to file
future patent applications in both the United States and abroad on significant inventions, as we deem appropriate. We do not believe that any individual patent, or
the expiration thereof, is or would be material to our business.
In May 2001, we signed a patent cross-license agreement with Intel Corporation, under which we granted each other a non-exclusive license under each
party’s patents for the manufacture and sale of semiconductor products worldwide. We pay Intel a royalty for certain licensed microprocessor products sold by us
or any AMD affiliate anywhere in the world. The license terminates in January 2010.
In connection with the formation of Spansion, we and Fujitsu transferred to Spansion an ownership interest in, or granted Spansion a license to, use all
patents, copyrights, trade secrets (know-how), trademarks and maskwork rights necessary for Spansion’s business. Specifically, under an intellectual property
contribution and assignment agreement, we and Fujitsu:
• assigned our respective ownership interest in jointly held patents developed by the Manufacturing Joint Venture;
• contributed ownership rights of the Manufacturing Joint Venture in patents held jointly by us, Fujitsu and the Manufacturing Joint Venture;
• granted to Spansion joint ownership interest in all maskworks and trade secrets and copyrights in specified software necessary for Spansion’s business;
• granted Spansion a license to copyrights in other software necessary for Spansion’s business; and
• transferred our respective ownership interest in all trademarks necessary for Spansion’s business.
In addition, we and Fujitsu entered into cross license agreements with Spansion pursuant to which we and Fujitsu each granted Spansion a non-exclusive
license to all semiconductor patents wholly owned by us or as to which we had the right to grant licenses or sublicenses (without such grant resulting in the
payment of royalties).
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K, March 01, 2005