Loading ...Over the last couple of weeks I have shared some fun facts about AMD’s innovation with my Twitter followers. For those who missed them – or who just want to read them again – I’ve included them here (without the edits that I needed to make them fit into 140 charaters).
Enjoy.
Fact #1
The 50 million Wii gaming consoles shipped to date run on AMD processors.
Fact #2
Billions of financial transactions are conducted quickly and efficiently every day by major stock exchanges around the world on AMD processor-based servers.
Fact #3
7 of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by AMD processors.
Fact #4
AMD processors were trusted to power crash safety test simulations for almost 2 million new cars that hit the road in the US in 2008.
Fact #5
Realistic special effects powered by AMD technology have helped Hollywood amass more than $5.4 billion in worldwide box office revenue.
Fact #6
AMD processors in the Top500 supercomputer list account for more than 4.029 petaflops of computing power (in English: that’s more than four thousand trillion calculations per second).
Fact #7
50 percent of Internet DNS traffic is efficiently and quickly routed via AMD processor-powered servers.
Fact #8
Musicians and producers who have collectively won 70 Grammy awards currently rely on AMD technology for their cutting-edge digital music production.
Fact #9
Every month nearly 23 million travelers find their ideal trip using online travel services powered by AMD processor-based hardware.
Fact #10
AMD graphics and slot machines are a winning combination. More than 75 percent of new slot machines in Las Vegas use AMD graphics to power their visually stunning imagery, and more than half of those machines also use an AMD CPU.
Nigel Dessau is senior vice president and chief marketing officer at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.
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#1 by wpeltola - May 27th, 2009 at 14:37
Nigel,
Thanks for keeping things interesting, fun and fact-filled!
I have been following you via Twitter now for a long time and have really enjoyed all of the fun facts you have been posting. It’s nice to see them all in one place as well
–Bill
#2 by armistitiu - May 27th, 2009 at 17:42
Interesting facts. Now how about AMD initiates some real marketing strategies. I mean i’m in Romania (were i would expect you’d want to sell your mid or low end products) and i’ve nevers seend an AMD comercial on TV,Radio etc. You do have the products but nobody knows about them. Your competition has a strong brand, a nice logo, a jingle or at least something to remember them. I don’t see AMD having all of that.
#3 by Nigel Dessau - May 28th, 2009 at 18:10
armistitiu – there are many elements to marketing other than just advertising. While I understand that many people believe TV would drive awareness – it is not the primary tactic we are driving. Doing it well and at the volume you need it to, does not make economic sense for us.
#4 by Surya - May 27th, 2009 at 22:30
So far, i have only seen AMD all in one imac like (with lcd display) from Benq. But unfortunately this stuf did not capable to play appropriately 1080p content. When is the next AMD platform (congo) out?
#5 by Nigel Dessau - May 28th, 2009 at 18:10
Keep an eye out – more news soon.