Underlining the company’s leadership in developing hardware and drivers to support the Windows 7 operating system, AMD announced that its Windows 7 driver has received Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) certification on the first day of the certifying program. WHQL certification sets a high bar for quality and reliability, and is considered essential by many home and business users.

·         WHQL certification sets a high bar for quality and reliability, and is considered essential by many home and business users.

·         WHQL certification demonstrates AMD’s ability to deliver the stability, incredible 3D game performance and smooth multimedia playback needed in order to help bring th

e new features of Windows 7 to life.

·         As a testament to its ongoing commitment to reliability and stability, AMD is the only graphics hardware company in the world delivering monthly WHQL-certified graphics driver updates.

For users of ATI Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 series products, the ATI Catalyst software suite delivers:

·         Industry-leading driver stability and reliability.

·         Full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7. 

·         Scheduled performance and new feature innovation every month.

·         Enablement of ATI Stream technology for general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing on supported graphics cards.

“By delivering a WHQL certified driver for the Windows 7 operating system at the earliest possible opportunity, AMD has once again demonstrated its driver leadership,” said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate VP, Software Engineering, AMD. “AMD is working closely with Microsoft to ensure superior performance and a reliable Windows 7 experience throughout our line of graphics processors.” 

Microsoft WHQL certified graphics drivers for Windows 7 are scheduled for release on the AMD site on May 5, 2009, and a fully unified WHQL-certified driver supporting Windows Vista and Windows 7 is planned for the release of ATI Catalyst 9.5 later in May. 

To learn more about the first AMD WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7, please visit www.amd.com.