Casio-Hitachi Designs Two New Wireless Handsets with Lightning-Fast Spansion NOR Flash Memory

Spansion LLC, the Flash memory venture of AMD (NYSE:AMD) andFujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) today announced that Casio Hitachi MobileCommunications has developed two new cellular handsets with 512 Mb NORFlash memory, which uses stacked versions of Spansion's WS256N, a NORFlash memory device based on the company's award-winning MirrorBit(TM)technology. The new G'zOne and A5512CA mobile phones developed byCasio-Hitachi and available now in Japan integrate 80 MHz versions ofthe Spansion WS256N, the fastest frequency using two-bit-per-celltechnology. In addition, Spansion has proven that the WS256N hasheadroom to spare, providing a platform for wireless designs withfrequencies up to 108 MHz.

"The WS256N is the latest example of how Spansion leveragesMirrorBit technology to deliver the right mix of performance,reliability, cost-per-bit and density based on application needs,"said Hans Wildenberg, corporate vice president of the WirelessBusiness Unit for Spansion Japan. "These two new handsets from Casioshowcase the powerful multimedia features that can be realized withincreased code storage capacity and performance."

The WS256N is the only mass production two-bit-per-cell 80MHzproduct available today, and allows mobile handset designers tomaximize the potential of wireless chipsets by pairinghigh-performance Flash memory and logic to rapidly process everincreasing millions of instructions per second. As a result, designerscan adequately store and manage the growing amount of code needed todeliver increasingly feature-rich phones with advanced multimediafeatures. Fast read speeds can also help to enhance the end userexperience by enabling faster boot times and camera shoot times.

The robust cellular handsets developed by Casio-Hitachi feature upto 64 megabytes (MB) of code storage for advanced multimediafunctions. Both phones integrate a 1.28 megapixel camera, expansivetelephone and address databases, mapping/navigation functions andvideo capabilities.

"Spansion's Flash memory is designed for advanced chipsets --making it possible for handset manufacturers to producehigh-performance cell phones," said Kenji Iwahara, Team Leader of theHardware Design Group within the Development and Design headquartersat Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. "Since end userscontinue to demand ever faster content transmission and more newfunctions, cell phones will likely continue to have to accelerateprocessing speeds and increase the amount of code data they store."

About the WS256N Family of Wireless-Optimized NOR Flash MemoryDevices

The Spansion(TM) WS-N Flash memory family features 512, 256-, 128-and 64-megabit burst products operating at 1.8 volts in single-die andMCP configurations. The family maximizes value for customers byallowing them to leverage a single phone platform for high-end,mainstream and value models. The device is shipping at 80MHz in volumeto numerous customers in the wireless market.

Spansion has also proven the performance of the device atfrequencies up to 108 MHz, enabling customers to use the WS256N todevelop even higher performance next-generation wireless designs.Moreover, by maintaining hardware and software compatibility acrossproduct families, Spansion allows customers to use the 110 nanometerWS256N as a development platform today, and easily migrate to higherperformance, higher density devices based on 90 nanometer processtechnology as they become available. The company expects to deliver asingle-chip 90 nanometer 512Mb device optimized for the wirelessmarket in early 2006.

About MirrorBit(TM) Technology

Spansion's award-winning MirrorBit(TM) technology is a proprietarytechnology, which stores two bits of data in a single memory cell,doubling the density of each memory cell. MirrorBit technologyrequires fewer manufacturing steps, resulting in higher yields andlower costs, eliminating at least 10 percent of the totalmanufacturing steps and 40 percent of the most critical manufacturingsteps, as compared to floating gate MLC NOR technology.

About Spansion

Spansion, the Flash memory venture of AMD and Fujitsu, is thelargest company in the world dedicated exclusively to developing,designing, and manufacturing Flash memory products. In fiscal 2004,Spansion's total net sales were approximately $2.3 billion. Thecompany offers the broadest NOR Flash memory portfolio in theindustry, for use in the wireless, automotive, networking,telecommunications and consumer electronics markets. The company'sportfolio is supported by a worldwide network of advancedmanufacturing facilities, system-level expertise and dedicated designsupport, and an unwavering commitment to our customers' success.

Information about Spansion Flash memory solutions is available athttp://www.spansion.com.

Cautionary Statement

This release contains forward-looking statements concerning thatare made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the PrivateSecurities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned thatthe forward-looking statements in this release involve risks anduncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materiallyfrom the company's current expectations. Risks that the companyconsiders to be the important factors that could cause actual resultsto differ materially from those set forth in the forward-lookingstatements include the possibility that demand for the company's Flashmemory products will be lower than currently expected; that OEMs willincreasingly choose NAND-based Flash memory products over NOR-basedFlash memory products for their applications; that customer acceptanceof MirrorBit technology will not continue to increase; thatcompetitors may introduce new memory technologies that may make thecompany's Flash memory products uncompetitive or obsolete; that thecompany may not achieve its current product and technologyintroduction or implementation schedules; and that the company willnot be able to raise sufficient capital to enable it to establishleading-edge capacity to meet product demand and maintain marketshare. We urge investors to review in detail the risks anduncertainties in the company's Securities and Exchange Commissionfilings, including but not limited to the company's RegistrationStatement on Form S-1 and AMD's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for thequarter ended June 26, 2005.

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