No purchase required to enter or win. A purchase will not Increase your chances of winning. Maximum one (1) prize per person.

1. Eligibility: 12 Days of 12 Core  (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia) and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are at least thirteen (13) years of age as of the Entry Period (defined below) or older (if under the age of majority, parental permission required). Employees of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., and Intel Corporation, and each of their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, and the immediate family (defined as parents, children, siblings and husband or wife) of each such employee, together with those with whom such employees are domiciled, are not eligible to participate.

2. Sponsor: The Contest is sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., One AMD Place, PO Box 3453, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3453 (“AMD” or “Sponsor”).

3. Agreement to Official Rules: Participation in the Contest constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding.  Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein

4. Entry Period: The Contest begins on December 10 at 9am CT and ends December 23 at 12am CT.  Entries that are submitted before or after the Entry Period will be disqualified.

5. Submission: Entrants are invited to submit an entry after the posting of the 12th and final blog post associated with the Contest.  Each of the 12 blog posts associated with the Contest will contain one “Clue.”  The twelve Clues combine to spell out the Final Phrase. “Clues” are indicated as bolded, underlined words within the blog posts (i.e., this is a clue). Each blog post associated with the Contest will only have one Clue. Once the 12th and final blog has been posted, 12 Clues will have been revealed within the blogs.  At this point, readers will able to submit the Final Phrase via an entry form embedded in the 12th blog post for a period (“Submission Period”) of approximately 48 hours beginning immediately after the posting of the 12th blog post.  The 12th blog post will identify the end of the “Submission Period.” All entries received during the Submission Period and deemed in Sponsor’s sole discretion to correctly include the Final Phrase will then be placed in a random drawing conducted by Sponsor to determine a winner.  To be eligible, an entry must contain all information requested in the entry form embedded in the 12th blog post (including entrant’s e-mail address and the Final Phrase).  Entries containing more information than this may be disqualified, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.

Any personal data an entrant submits will be stored on servers in Canada and the United States of America.  Where applicable, entry into the Contest constitutes entrant’s consent to the export of any personal data collected by Sponsor to the United States of America and its use there only for the purposes of administering this Contest and associated processing (e.g., but not limited to back-up, archiving). Entrants’ personal data will be stored on these servers and used for the purposes of administering this Contest and associated processing of entries.  For further information about how Sponsor manages your personal data, please see Sponsor’s privacy policy at http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/Pages/privacy.aspx.

Limit: One (1) entry per person and one (1) entry per e-mail address.  Any attempt to exceed the maximum number of entries, whether through use of multiple e-mail accounts or any automated system may result in disqualification.  Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, altered, unintelligible or misdirected entries, which will be void.   In the event of a dispute as to who submitted an entry, the person demonstrating to Sponsor’s satisfaction, as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion, that he or she is the authorized holder of the e-mail account will be deemed to be the entrant.  The “authorized holder of the e-mail account” is the natural person assigned by an Internet access provider, online service provider, Internet service provider or other similar organization to the email address used to post the comment.

6. Winner Notification: The potential prize winner will be notified by e-mail after the random drawing.  The potential prize winner must reply to the notification with any requested information within five (5) days of the time the win notification was sent.  The potential prize winner may be required to sign and return to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice is sent, a confirmation of an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release (if a legal resident of the United States) (“Affidavit”) or a Declaration of Compliance (if a legal resident of Canada) (“Declaration”) (except where prohibited) in order to claim his/her prize.  If the potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to respond to the notification within five (5) days (if applicable), or fails to sign and return the Affidavit and Release or Declaration within the required time period (if applicable), he/she forfeits the applicable prize and another random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries will be performed.

Additionally, if the potential winner is from Canada, he/she will be required to correctly answer and return, within ten (10) days from the date the Declaration is sent, a mathematical skill testing question to be answered without any assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, in order to be eligible to receive a prize.  In the event that the potential winner fails to correctly answer and/or return the skills test (if applicable), or if a potential winner is disqualified for any other reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate potential winner in a random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries.

The odds of winning a prize depend upon the number of eligible entries received, and upon the time the entries are received.

7. Prize: One (1) grand prize winner will receive one (1) Toshiba Satellite A505D-S6987 laptop, with an AMD Turion™ II Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor M600, Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), 4GB DDR2 800MHz memory, 500GB HDD (5400rpm), and  ATI Integrated Graphics. The grand prize has an approximate retail value of US$853.99. The grand prize will only include the computer, without any additional components.

Prize must be accepted as awarded and may not be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash or otherwise, except at Sponsor’s sole discretion or as contemplated herein.  Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value if the prize, or any component of the prize, cannot be awarded for any reason.  Sponsor is responsible only for prize delivery; not responsible for prize utility, quality or otherwise. Taxes and fees, if any, are the sole responsibility of prize winners. All prize details not specified in these Official Rules will be determined in Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion.

8. Release: By receipt of the prize, the  winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, libel, slander, defamation, and damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

9. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Contest constitutes winner’s consent to Sponsor’s use of winner’s name, image, likeness, personal testimonial and city and country of residence for promotional purposes in any media or format,  worldwide, without further payment or consideration, including but not limited to posting winner lists online.

10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend or modify this Contest in whole or in part, at any time and without notice or obligation, if in Sponsor’s sole discretion, any factor interferes with its proper conduct as contemplated by these Official Rules.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process.  Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.  Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision or of any other provision of these Official Rules.

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.  If any provision of the Official Rules is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, then the Official Rules shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein.

11. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible, to the extent permitted by law, for:  (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or omission or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Contest; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.  If for any reason an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Contest provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Contest, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein.  No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed  Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, unawarded, eligible prize claims.

12. Contest Results; Posting of Official Rules: The winner will be posted on http://blogs.amd.com/work for at least four weeks following the close of The Contest.

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