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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2004--

-- AMD64 processor-based digital audio workstation to record benefit concert
in DVD-A featuring Eric Clapton and other legendary guitar players --


AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that AMD64 technology is the digital audio
workstation (DAW) platform of choice to record Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar
Festival concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Sunday, June 6, 2004. Tens of
thousands of music fans are expected to attend the concert featuring a line-up
of legendary guitar players. Scheduled to perform are Eric Clapton and Doyle
Bramhall II, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, James Taylor, ZZ Top, Steve Vai, Robert
Cray, Neal Schon, blues legend B.B. King, and many more artists. The Sunday
concert wraps up a three-day first-of-its-kind guitar festival dedicated to
raising funds and awareness for Crossroads Centre, Antigua, the treatment and
education center founded by Eric Clapton in 1997.

"AMD64 technology was designed to meet the needs of the most discriminating
professionals in extremely demanding environments like recording Eric Clapton's
Crossroads Guitar Festival," said Charlie Boswell, marketing director for AMD's
Digital Media & Entertainment group. "The Direct Connect Architecture of AMD64
enables an ideal balance between artistic performance and cutting-edge
production power, which is already making an impact inside the professional
recording studio and now in mission-critical live recording. AMD64 technology
has been selected over 32-bit-only systems."

The expected 11-hour Sunday concert will be recorded on 48 channels in 24-bit
audio mode at a 96KHz sample rate for high-resolution, DVD-A audio. The Verari
Systems DAW64 based on dual AMD Opteron(TM) processors running Windows(R) in
32-bit mode and Steinberg/Pinnacle's Nuendo 2.0 software will provide the
digital backbone of the recording effort. When software optimized for 64-bit
computing becomes available, AMD64 processor-based systems are designed to
experience a significant performance increase with a simple software upgrade.


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