BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER) announced that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has purchased multiple Tiger Test Systems to test integrated circuits with HyperTransport(TM) technology. The HyperTransport technology is designed to reduce bottlenecks; speeding data flow inside the computers, servers and network switches that power the Internet. Tiger is the first SOC system offering economical at-speed testing for emerging high speed bus standards like AGP 8X, 1 GHz DDR, HyperTransport technology and Rapid I/O.

"Tiger is a next generation chipset tester," said Calvin Cheung, manager, Core Logic Product Development Engineering at AMD. "AMD's productive working relationship with Teradyne led us to select Tiger as our technology evolved. With HyperTransport technology-based designs and other complex cells on our silicon roadmap, Tiger's differential, flexible pin architecture and wide analog instrument range meet with our requirements."

"The HyperTransport bus is designed to enable computer chips to communicate with each other faster," said Chris Neuts, manager of Technology Evangelism at AMD. "Our new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link technology requires new test solutions such as Teradyne's Tiger. AMD and our HyperTransport technology licensees need the differential test capability that products like Tiger offer to get these new devices to market quickly."

"New technologies create new challenges for IC makers," said Jeff Schneider, Teradyne Marketing Manager. "Products that incorporate technologies like HyperTransport often combine multiple asynchronous buses and use I/O speeds over 500 MHz. With Tiger, Teradyne is creating leading edge test solutions for tomorrow's new technologies, today."

About Tiger

Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software, and state-of-the-art analog instruments. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets the standard with Real I/O(TM) data rates to 1.6 Gbps. Real I/O gives better fault coverage and shorter test times through functional and timing margin checks in a single pattern burst, at any digital data rate.

About HyperTransport(TM) Technology

HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within the system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications, and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It was designed to enable the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than with existing technologies.

Compared with existing system interconnects that provide bandwidth up to 266MB/sec, HyperTransport technology's potential peak bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec represents better than a 40-fold increase in data throughput. HyperTransport technology provides an extremely fast connection that complements externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), as well as emerging technologies like InfiniBand and Gigabit Ethernet. HyperTransport technology is designed to provide the bandwidth that the new InfiniBand standard requires to communicate with memory and system components inside of next-generation servers and devices that may power the backbone infrastructure of the telecom industry. HyperTransport technology is targeted primarily at the information technology and telecom industries, but any application in which high speed, low latency and scalability is necessary can potentially take advantage of HyperTransport technology.

HyperTransport technology also has a unique daisy-chainable feature, giving the opportunity to connect multiple HyperTransport input/output bridges to a single channel. HyperTransport technology is designed to support up to 32 devices per channel and can mix and match components with different bus widths and speeds.

About Teradyne

Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test systems and high performance interconnection systems for the electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries. Teradyne products are used to test semiconductors, printed circuit board assemblies, telephone lines and broadband networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density, high-bandwidth connectors are used in the communications and computing systems central to the Internet infrastructure. In 2000, the company had sales of $3.0 billion and there are currently more than 9600 employees. Teradyne's World Wide Web address is www.teradyne.com.

AMD and HyperTransport are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All other product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

IMAGE and Real I/O are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc.