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FireStream Processors. We designed our AMD FireStream™series of products to utilize the parallel
stream processing power of the GPU for heavy floating-point computations and to meet the requirements of
various industries, such as the high-performance computing and the scientific and financial sectors.
Game Consoles.Semiconductor graphics suppliers have leveraged their core visual and graphics
processing technologies developed for the PC market by providing graphic solutions to game console
manufacturers. In this market, semiconductor graphics suppliers work alongside game console manufacturers to
enhance the visual experience for users of sophisticated video games. We leverage our core visual processing
technology into the game console market by licensing customized GPUs for graphics in videogame consoles such
as the Microsoft®Xbox 360™, Nintendo Wii and Wii U from Nintendo.
Marketing and Sales
We sell our products through our direct sales force and through independent distributors and sales
representatives in both domestic and international markets pursuant to non-exclusive agreements. Our sales
arrangements generally operate on the basis of product forecasts provided by the particular customer, but do not
typically include any commitment or requirement for minimum product purchases. We primarily use purchase
orders, sales order acknowledgments and contractual agreements as evidence of our sales arrangements. Our
agreements typically contain standard terms and conditions covering matters such as payment terms, warranties
and indemnities for issues specific to our products.
We generally warrant that our products sold to our customers will conform to our approved specifications
and be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for one year. Subject to
certain exceptions, we also offer a three-year limited warranty to end users for only those CPU and AMD A-
Series APU products that are commonly referred to as “processors in a box” and for PC workstation products.
We have also offered extended limited warranties to certain customers of “tray” microprocessor products and/or
workstation graphics products who have written agreements with us and target their computer systems at the
commercial and/or embedded markets.
We market and sell our products under the AMD trademark. Our desktop PC product brands for
microprocessors are AMD A-Series, AMD E-Series, AMD FX, AMD Athlon and AMD Sempron. Our mobile
PC brands for microprocessors are AMD A-Series A, AMD E-Series, AMD C-Series, AMD Z-Series, AMD
Phenom, AMD Athlon, AMD Turion and AMD Sempron. Our server brand for microprocessors is AMD
Opteron. We sell micro-server systems products under the SeaMicro brand, including SM10000 and SM15000
series for fabric compute systems, and Freedom Fabric Storage series for storage systems. We also sell low-
power versions of our AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon, AMD Sempron and AMD Embedded A-Series processors as
embedded processor solutions. Our product brand for the consumer graphics market is AMD Radeon. Our
product brand for professional graphics products is AMD FirePro. We also market and sell our chipsets under the
AMD trademark.
We launch or update new platforms for consumers in the desktop and mobile markets under our VISION
Technology from AMD brand. We designed VISION Technology to simplify the buying process for consumers
by more clearly connecting our brand to the level of activities that consumers want to perform on the
PC. VISION Technology contains multiple levels of increasingly rich PC system capabilities to address the
diverse needs of today’s PC users. VISION Technology initially consisted of four levels of PC system
capabilities: VISION, VISION Premium, VISION Ultimate and VISION Black. Our VISION Technology brand
for our low-power APU products, consists of VISION E1 and VISION E2 for our entry level PCs. Our VISION
Technology brand for performance series APUs consisting of four levels of PC system capabilities: VISION A4,
VISION A6, VISION A8, and VISION FX. These VISION tiers are for 2011 and later systems powered by our
APUs and provide increasingly higher PC capabilities. An additional tier, VISION A10, was introduced in
September 2012. VISION E1, E2, and A4 based desktops and notebooks are targeted at PC users who require
basic digital media consumption such as watching DVDs, photo viewing, casual gaming, listening to music, and
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