Stefan Mileschin

— Groundbreaking, multi-title strategic partnership brings the companies’ top talent together to speed pace of game technology development and leverage latest disruptions in CPU and GPU technology from AMD —

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — February 28, 2017 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Bethesda
Softworks today announced a long-term strategic partnership to rapidly advance game
technology development, fuel new PC game experiences, and reshape the gaming landscape.
The collaboration brings together two titans of the gaming industry: Bethesda Softworks, whose
storied 30-year history has produced legendary games including those in The Elder Scrolls
series, Fallout 3 and 4, DOOM, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Quake, and Dishonored, with
more than 80 million copies sold; and AMD, whose CPU and GPU technologies power the
experiences of 400 million gamers worldwide.

Announced on stage at the AMD “Capsaicin” webcast and press event during the 2017
Game Developers Conference, the multi-title agreement will see the two companies collaborate
to develop and accelerate the implementation of new technologies, including the full potential of
low-level APIs, such as Vulkan®, and the computing and graphics power of AMD Ryzen CPUs,
Radeon™ GPUs, and AMD server solutions across existing Bethesda franchises. The close-knit
strategic partnership will combine hardware, software and game engineering talents at both
companies with the creative genius of Bethesda content developers to deliver extraordinary
experiences on upcoming hardware architectures.

“This is a disruptive moment in the industry as games demand increasingly more power from
today’s graphics architectures to deliver detailed worlds and characters at ever higher
resolutions, frame rates, and quality settings,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief
architect, Radeon Technologies Group. “Working independently, game developers and graphics
companies will eventually address the challenges of this new era of gaming; but working in
close collaboration, the pace of that progress can advance exponentially. Bethesda is an
undisputed leader in the games industry and an ideal strategic partner to jointly tackle this
transformative period in gaming.”

Of the strategic partnership, Bethesda President Vlatko Andonov said “AMD Radeon
graphics architectures represent a true commitment to developers, inviting them to use the
hardware as a blank canvas through low-level access to the silicon, and empowering them with
architectural advancements that enable them to bring their gaming visions to life without
compromise. AMD Ryzen represents one of the most important disruptions to the CPU market
in a long time. Our relationship with AMD represents an exciting and powerful opportunity for
Bethesda to further advance game experiences for our fans, significantly expand our presence
in gaming and VR, and engage with new generations of gamers around the world.”

The promising potential of an AMD/Bethesda strategic partnership was demonstrated just
last summer in a successful collaborative engineering effort to inject Vulkan® API technology
into DOOM. The result delivered unprecedented performance alongside improved visual fidelity.
Besides making history as the first AAA title to utilize Vulkan®, the alliance resulted in a smooth,
highly optimized DOOM experience for AMD Ryzen™ processors and Radeon™ graphics card
owners and will inspire wider adoption of the Vulkan® API.


About AMD
For more than 45 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization
technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of
consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses, and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around the world rely on
AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work, and play. AMD employees around the world are focused on
building great products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is
enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.

About Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a worldwide publisher of interactive
entertainment software. Titles featured under the Bethesda label include such blockbuster franchises as The Elder
Scrolls®, DOOM®, QUAKE®, Fallout®, Wolfenstein®, Dishonored®, The Evil Within™, and RAGE®. For more
information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.
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