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Spansion Wins Award:

Spansion LLC, the Flash memory venture of AMD and Fujitsu Limited, today announced that Spansion Thailand has received two awards as the result of a “Best Employers in 2005” study conducted by global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm, Hewitt Associates. The company was named one of eight “Outstanding Employers” in Asia out of a total of 244 organizations across China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. In addition, Spansion Thailand, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spansion LLC, was awarded “Best Employer in Thailand,” coming in number one in the manufacturing sector and number two overall. More than 60 companies participated in the “Best Employers in Thailand” study. This is the third year of the Hewitt pan-Asian Best Employers study, and the second time that either Spansion, or its parent company AMD, has received the award.

HP Goes With Radeon Xpress:

ATI Technologies Inc. today announced that Radeon® Xpress™ 200 will be the chipset platform technology for the HP dx5150, HP's latest AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-based commercial desktop PC. ATI's technology adds Radeon-class visual processing and broad connectivity for today's most commonly used devices and peripherals. The Radeon Xpress 200 also delivers built-in support for PCI Express, DirectX 9 graphics and AMD's 64-bit processors, helping to enable support of the latest operating systems and applications and, in turn, give customers investment protection.

NVIDIA Media Center PC Reference Design:

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled a new Media Center PC reference design which will enable system builders and OEMs to assemble a high-end living room PC that is cost effective, has a richer feature set, operates at a cooler temperature, consumes less power, and is a physically smaller and quieter addition to the consumer’s living room. This reference design includes such industry leading technologies as PureVideo™ High-Definition video technology, a GeForce™ 6 Series graphics processing unit, NVIDIA® NVTV™ PC Tuner Card and more.