ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
8-K, 1995-09-29
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                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                            Washington, D.C.  20549

                                   FORM 8-K

                                CURRENT REPORT



                    Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                        Securities Exchange Act of 1934


                      Date of Report:  September 25, 1995



                         ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
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            (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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        DELAWARE                        1-7882           94-1692300
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  (State or other jurisdiction       (Commission     (I.R.S. Employer
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     One AMD Place,
     P.O. Box 3453
     Sunnyvale, California                              94088-3453
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(address of principal executive office)                 (Zip Code)



Registrant's telephone number,
 including area code:                                   (408) 732-2400


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Other Events:
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     On September 25, 1995, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. issued a press release,
the full text of which is set forth in an exhibit attached hereto and
incorporated in this report as if fully set forth herein.



Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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 (c)     Exhibits:

         99   Press release dated September 25, 1995

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                                  SIGNATURES
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     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                     ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
                                          (Registrant)



Date:  September 29, 1995            By:  /s/ Marvin D. Burkett
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                                     Marvin D. Burkett
                                     Senior Vice President, Chief Financial and
                                     Administrative Officer and Treasurer

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                                 Exhibit Index
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99        Press release dated September 25, 1995

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                                                                  [LETTERHEAD OF
                                                          ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES
                                                                   APPEARS HERE]

                                                                      EXHIBIT 99

NEWS RELEASE
                                                        For further information:
                                                        Chuck Mulloy
                                                        (408) 749-5481

                     ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES EXPECTS LOWER
                      THIRD-QUARTER REVENUES AND EARNINGS


SUNNYVALE, CA... September 25, 1995... Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today 
announced that it expects third-quarter revenues and earnings to be lower than 
last quarter. The company attributes the expected shortfall entirely to flat 
Am486(R) microprocessor unit shipments at sharply lower prices. AMD plans to 
release quarterly results on October 10.


"We continue to anticipate that revenue growth from our other product lines will
be up to 10 percent over the immediate prior quarter. Flash memory shipments are
expected to be up nearly three times over the comparable quarter last year," 
said W. J. Sanders III, chairman and chief executive officer of AMD.


"AMD is responding aggressively to a market in which flash memory demand 
continues to outstrip our ability to produce. To meet customer demand, we 
continue to ramp flash memory production at our existing Fujitsu AMD 
Semiconductor Ltd. (FASL) fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. In addition, FASL has 
approved construction of a second flash megafab and we will break ground on the 
new facility at a contiguous site in the first quarter of 1996," Sanders said.

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"While we believe the personal computer market is healthy, many of our customers
depleted Am486 component inventories during the current quarter," Sanders said.
"The 486 market is shifting rapidly to higher-speed parts. Two-thirds of our 
Am486 shipments this quarter will be at 100MHz or higher. While we expect 
fourth-quarter Am486 unit demand to increase, it is unlikely that AMD 
microprocessor revenue growth will resume until the company begins shipping 
products with fifth-generation performance in 1996."


AMD reported that it has made substantial progress validating the compatibility 
of its K86(TM) Superscalar architecture. "We are successfully running 
applications on Microsoft(R) Windows95(R) and more than 20 other operating 
systems, including UNIX(R) and OS/2(R), and we plan to widely sample devices 
that demonstrate our compatibility in December," Sanders said.


An early version of AMD's fifth-generation, superscalar microprocessor, 
code-named SS/5-75, will be available for sale in limited quantities during the 
first quarter of 1996. This 75MHz device will be a plug-in replacement for a 
75MHz Pentium(R). It will be in volume production in the second quarter on AMD's
0.35-micron process technology in Fab 25, the company's new megafab in Austin, 
Texas.


"We expect that AMD K-5(TM) products reflecting the inherent 30-percent 
performance advantage over Pentium will be available one quarter after the 
SS/5-75. We plan to produce a total of more than five million 5th-generation 
superscalar devices in the first 12 months after shipments commence, with more 
than three-million units available in 1996," Sanders said.

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., is the fourth-largest U.S. merchant-supplier of 
integrated circuits. Focusing on the personal and networked computing and 
communications markets, AMD produces microprocessors and related peripherals, 
memories, programmable logic devices and circuits for telecommunications and 
networking applications. AMD has sales offices worldwide and manufacturing 
facilities in Sunnyvale, California; Austin, Texas; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang, 
Malaysia; Singapore; Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan; and Basingstoke, England.


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WORLD WIDE WEB: Press announcements and other information about AMD are 
available on the Internet via the World Wide Web. Type http://www.amd.com at the
URL prompt.

Am486 is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. K86 and AMD K-5 
are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are 
registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Pentium is a registered 
trademark of Intel Corporation. OS/2 is a registered trademark of International 
Business Machines Corporation.

AMD news release 95Corp20


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