- Billions of Stock Trade Transactions Conducted Daily by Exchanges in Canada, Europe and the United States on AMD64 Technology-based Servers -

  AMD announced the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, is now among the many leading stock exchanges that depend upon AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems to conduct billions of stock trade transactions daily. Borsa Italiana has joined AMD's growing roster of global exchange customers, including NYSE Group, Inc., the International Securities Exchange's Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Montréal Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange. These customers rely on AMD Opteron processors to deliver competitive advantage through incomparable scalability, cost/performance and performance-per-watt.

                "Stock exchanges represent some of the most challenging real-time transaction processing environments in the IT world," said Kevin Knox, vice president, Worldwide Commercial Business, AMD. "AMD Opteron processors with AMD64 technology continue to be a platform of choice in this area because of their remarkable performance and performance-per-watt characteristics. Specifically, within the same or smaller footprint, AMD64 technology helps these exchanges process exceptional amounts of data and transactions quickly and reliably."

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