The industry is healthy. Customers and partners that have elected to partner with AMD are seeing the opportunities that come with providing choice to their customers.

Interestingly, we're also doing extremely well in desktop, and, in particular, the mainstream and high performance segments.

If the United States does not take action to change these statistics, there is no doubt in my mind that it will lose its global reputation for 'American ingenuity'.

AMD and China share a deep mutual respect for the ability of technology to promote economic and educational opportunities, ... AMD's investments of technology, facilities and resources are a sign of our commitment to provide industry-standard x86-based computing solutions to the people of China.

Our customers and partners are interested in two things -- innovation and societal impact, ... By gathering this elite audience together, we hope to not only offer insight on new technologies and best practices, but also to provide new ideas for new technologies that can have a positive effect on the world.

Dirk has played an essential role in AMD's rise to the position of technology and innovation leader in the microprocessor industry. He has made amazing progress with our microprocessor business, making it the envy of our industry. His leadership, operational skills and business acumen have positioned the company for long-term, sustainable growth, and I'm very pleased that AMD now will benefit from those skills on an even grander scale.

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

We have to change the attitudes of companies.

We believe that AMD's long-term success depends on our ability to help China grow its information technology business, and we are demonstrating this belief by sharing this important technology with our valued partners in China,

We need real solutions, not examples of technology for technology's sake, not digital pies in the sky, ... tech utopia.