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AMD’s Worldwide Plans:

AMD today formally unveiled a business strategy with initial participants in India, Mexico and the Caribbean to enable 50 percent of the world’s population with Internet connectivity and computing capabilities by 2015. As part of its 50x15 strategy, AMD is announcing the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), an innovative consumer device that enables affordable, managed Internet connectivity and offers Microsoft® Windows®-based computing capabilities to help fulfill the communication, education and entertainment needs of people in high-growth markets.

Itanium 2 System Fastest In World:

Intel Corporation today announced that its latest Intel® Itanium® 2 processor powers the world's fastest supercomputer. Intel has congratulated NASA and SGI on building Project Columbia, a system that boasts a world-record speed of 42 trillion floating point operations per second (42 teraFLOP/s) and was deployed in less than six months.

VIA Q3 Results:

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced financial results for third quarter 2004. Net sales for 3Q’04 were NT$5,591 million, and net income was (NT$50 million). Based on the current 1,238.911 million shares outstanding, earnings per share were reported as (NT$0.04).