Furthermore, as of December 26, 2004, we had available up to $100 million for future secured borrowings under a revolving credit facility. We and our subsidiaries may incur additional debt (including secured and guaranteed debt) and other liabilities in the future.

These covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and limitations, which are described under the heading “Description of the Notes—Certain Covenants.”

RISK FACTORSRisk factors

An investment in our notes involves a high degree of risk. In deciding whether to investexchange your private notes for exchange notes in the notes,exchange offer, you should carefully consider the following factors, in addition to the other information and data contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus. The risk factors set forth below are generally applicable to the private notes as well as the exchange notes. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only onesrisks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or those we face. If any of the following risks actually occurs,currently deem to be immaterial may also materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. In such case, our ability to make payments on the notes could be impaired, the trading price of the notes could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment.operations.

Risks Related to Our Business

If we cannot generate sufficient operating cash flow and obtain external financing, we may be unable to make all of our planned capital expenditures or fulfill our obligations to Fab 36 or Spansion LLC.

Our ability to fund capital expenditures in accordance with our business plan depends on generating sufficient cash flow from operations and the availability of external financing. For example, in 2005 we plan to spend approximately $1.5 billion in capital expenditures.

Under the partnership agreement for AMD Fab 36 Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, or AMD Fab 36 KG, our German subsidiaries, AMD Fab 36 Holding GmbH and AMD Fab 36 Admin GmbH, are obligated to invest approximately $792 million into AMD Fab 36 KG. In addition, under the revolving credit agreement among AMD, AMD Fab 36 Holding and AMD Fab 36 KG, we or AMD Fab 36 Holding are required to provide up to approximately $1.0 billion to AMD Fab 36 KG. Loans provided to AMD Fab 36 KG under this revolving credit agreement are unsecured and subordinated to the rights of the consortium of banks that will also be providing financing to AMD Fab 36 KG. The amounts set forth above are based on an exchange rate of .739 euro to one U.S. dollar as of December 26, 2004.

We are also obligated through June 30, 2007 to provide Spansion LLC, our majority-owned subsidiary, with additional funding to finance operational cash flow needs. Generally, Spansion LLC must seek any required financing from external sources. However, if such third-party financing is not available, either on a non-recourse basis to us or with guarantees based on our pro rata ownership interest, we must provide funding to Spansion LLC equalrelated to our pro rata ownership interest in Spansion LLC, which is currently 60 percent. An inability to meet our funding obligations for Spansion LLC could, among other things, result in additional equity in Spansion LLC being issued to Fujitsu or third parties, which would reduce our ownership in and control over Spansion LLC.

Our capital expenditures, together with ongoing operating expenses, will be a substantial drain on our cash flow and may decrease our cash balances. The timing and amount of our capital requirements cannot be precisely determined at this time and will depend on a number of factors, including demand for products, product mix, changes in semiconductor industry conditions and market competition. We regularly assess markets for external financing opportunities, including debt and equity. Additional debt or equity financing may not be available when needed or, if available, may not be available on satisfactory terms. Our inability to obtain needed debt and/or equity financing or to generate sufficient cash from operations may require us to abandon projects or curtail capital expenditures. If we curtail capital expenditures or abandon projects, we could be materially adversely affected. For example, if we abandon the Fab 36 project, we will have to write off related costs that we capitalized and we will be required to continue to make payments or otherwise be liable pursuant to then-existing contracts that we cannot terminate at will or without significant penalties.

If we lose Microsoft Corporation’s support for our products, or if there is a significant delay in Microsoft’s release of an operating system that works with our AMD64 technology, our ability to sell our microprocessors could be materially adversely affected.business

Our ability to innovate beyond the x86 instruction set controlled by Intel depends partially on Microsoft designing and developing its operating systems to run on or support our microprocessor products. If Microsoft

does not continue to design and develop its operating systems so that they work with our x86 instruction sets, including the timely introduction of an operating system that works with the AMD64 technology that we introduced with our AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors, independent software providers may forego designing their software applications to take advantage of our innovations and customers may not purchase personal computers, or PCs, with our microprocessors. If we fail to retain the support of Microsoft, our ability to market our microprocessors could be materially adversely affected.

In July 2004, Microsoft announced a delay in the release of its Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit Extended Systems and Windows XP 64-bit for 64-bit Extended Systems. The new Windows editions are designed to take advantage of 64-bit extensions to the standard x86 instruction set. Microsoft estimated that the release of this software will occur in the first half of 2005. Previously, Microsoft estimated the release date for this software would be in late 2004. This delay could adversely impact the timing of development of 64-bit applications by independent software providers and the adoption of 64-bit computing by end users. As a result, this delay could have a material adverse effect on our ability to sell our AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors.

We must achieve further market acceptance of our 64-bit technology, AMD64, or we will be materially adversely affected.

We designed our AMD64-based processors to provide users with the ability to take advantage of 64-bit applications while preserving their ability to run existing 32-bit applications on servers and workstations and on desktop and mobile PCs. Market acceptance of these processors is subject to risks and uncertainties including:

If we are unable to achieve further market acceptance of our AMD64 technology, we will be materially adversely affected.

We cannot be certain that our substantial investments in research and development of process technologies will lead to timely improvements in technology and equipment used to fabricate our products or that we will have sufficient resources to invest in the level of research and development that is required to remain competitive.

We make substantial investments in research and development for process technologies in an effort to design and manufacture leading-edge microprocessors. We cannot be certain that we will be able to develop, or obtain or successfully implement leading-edge process technologies needed to manufacture future generations of our products profitably or on a timely basis. Furthermore, we cannot assure you that we will have sufficient resources to maintain the level of investment in research and development that is required for us to remain competitive.

For example, we have a joint development agreement with IBM, pursuant to which we work together to develop new process technologies. In September 2004, we amended this agreement and extended its termination date from December 2005 to December 2008. Under this amended agreement, we anticipate that from December

26, 2004 through December 2008, we will pay fees to IBM of between approximately $220 million and $250 million in connection with joint development projects. In addition, from the beginning of 2002 through December 26, 2004, we paid approximately $247 million to IBM in connection with agreements and services related to license grants and research and development activities.

If the agreement were to be terminated, we would either have to resume research and development activities for microprocessor technology internally or find an alternative partner. In either case, our research and development costs could increase, and we could experience delays or other setbacks in the development of new process technologies, any of which could materially adversely affect us. Moreover, the successful and timely development and implementation of silicon-on-insulator technology and the achievement of other milestones set forth in the joint development agreement with IBM are critical to our AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors and to our ability to commence operations at Fab 36 in accordance with our planned schedule.

The semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and has experienced severe downturns that materially adversely affected, and may in the future materially adversely affect, our business.

The semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and has experienced significant downturns, often in connection with maturing product cycles, manufacturing overcapacity and declines in general economic conditions. Our historical financial results have also been subject to substantial fluctuations. Our financial performance has been, and may in the future be, negatively affected by these downturns. We incurred substantial losses in recent downturns, due to:

For example, in 2001 and 2002, we implemented restructuring plans due to weak customer demand associated with the downturn in the semiconductor industry. Similarly, in the fourth quarter of 2004, the downturn in the Flash memory market contributed to lower than anticipated Memory Product net sales. If these conditions in the semiconductor industry occur again in the future, we could be materially adversely affected.

Fluctuations in demand for PCs and mobile telephones may adversely affect sales of our products.

The Computation Products segment of our business is dependent upon the market for computers, including PCs. Industry-wide fluctuations in the computer marketplace have materially adversely affected us in the past and may materially adversely affect us in the future. Depending on the growth rate of computers sold, sales of our microprocessors may not grow and may even decrease. If end-user demand for computers is below our expectations, we could be materially adversely affected. In addition, potential market share increases by customers who exclusively purchase microprocessors from Intel Corporation, such as Dell, Inc., could further materially adversely affect us.

The Memory Products segment of our business is dependent to a large degree upon demand for mobile telephones as well as consumer electronics, automotive electronics and other embedded applications. If demand for mobile telephones is below our expectations or if the manufacturers of successive generations of these devices do not require NOR-based Flash memory products or increasing Flash memory content, we could be materially adversely affected.

Intense competition in the microprocessor and Flash memory markets could materially adversely affect us.

The IC industry is intensely competitive.

With respect to our microprocessor products, our competitor is Intel Corporation. Microprocessor products compete on performance, quality, reliability, price, adherence to industry standards, software and hardware compatibility, marketing and distribution capability, brand recognition and availability. After a product is introduced, costs and average selling prices normally decrease over time as production efficiency improves, and successive generations of products are developed and introduced for sale. We may not be able to compete effectively if we fail to reduce our costs on existing products or fail to develop and introduce, on a cost-effective and timely basis, new products or enhanced versions of existing products with higher margins.

Our principal competitors in the Flash memory market are Intel, Renesas, Samsung, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics N.V., Sharp Electronics Corporation, Silicon Storage Technology and Macronix International. The Flash memory market is characterized by migration to higher density and lower cost devices and a competitive pricing environment. In addition, ample capacity for manufacturing Flash memory products exists due to recent capital investment by some of our competitors, which is likely to further contribute to a competitive pricing environment. In the past, the net increases of supply, meaning the difference of capacity additions less capacity reductions due to obsolescence, exceeded demand requirements leading to oversupply situations and downturns in the industry. In the second half of 2004, supply exceeded demand for Flash memory products, particularly NOR-based products, which contributed to a decrease in our average selling prices and had a negative impact on our results of operations. If this continues in the future, we would be materially adversely affected.

To compete successfully, we must transition to technologies that meet the increasing demand for higher Flash memory content in mobile phones, consumer electronics and automotive applications, among other markets, at competitive prices. We expect competition in the Flash memory market to increase as existing manufacturers introduce new products, new manufacturers enter the market, industry-wide production capacity increases, to the extent potential customers choose NAND-based products over NOR-based products and competitors aggressively price their Flash memory products.

In addition, we and certain of our competitors have licensed non-volatile memory technology called NROM technology from a third party. NROM technology allows memory devices to store two bits of data in a memory cell. NROM technology has similar characteristics to our MirrorBit technology which may allow these competitors to develop Flash memory technology that is competitive with MirrorBit technology.

Intel Corporation’s dominance of the microprocessor market its position in the Flash memory market and its aggressive business practices may limit our ability to compete effectively.

Intel Corporation has dominated the market for microprocessors used in desktop and mobile PCs for many years. Intel is also a dominant competitor in the server segment of the microprocessorIntel’s market share, margins and a significant competitor in the Flash memory market. Intel’s significant financial resources enable it to market its products aggressively, to target our customers and our channel partners with special incentives, and to discipline customers who do business with us. These aggressive activities canhave in the past and are likely in the future to result in lower unit sales and a lower average selling pricesprice for our products, particularly microprocessors and Flash memory products and adversely affect our margins and profitability. As long as Intel remains in this dominant position, we may be materially adversely affected by Intel’s:

For example, Intel exerts substantial influence over PCcomputer manufacturers and their channels of distribution through the “Intel Inside”various brand program and other marketing programs. BecauseAs a result of itsIntel’s dominant position in the microprocessor market, Intel has been able to control x86 microprocessor and PCcomputer system standards and benchmarks and to dictate the type of products the microprocessor market requires of Intel’s competitors.us. Intel also dominates the PCcomputer system platform, which includes core logic chipsets, graphics chips, motherboards and other components necessary to assemble a PCcomputer system. As a result, PC original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs that purchase microprocessors for computer systems are highly dependent on Intel, less innovative on their own and, to a large extent, are distributors of Intel technology. Additionally, Intel is able to drive de facto standards for x86 microprocessors that could cause us and other companies to have delayed access to such standards. In marketing

Intel also manufactures and sells integrated graphics chipsets bundled with their microprocessors and is a dominant competitor with respect to this portion of our microprocessors to OEMs, we depend on third-party companies other thanbusiness. Intel for the design and manufacture of core-logic chipsets, graphics chips, motherboards, BIOS software and other components. In recent years, many of these third-party designers and manufacturers have lost significant market share to Intel or exited the business. In addition, Intel has significant leverage over these companies because they support each new generation of Intel’s microprocessors.

We do not currently plan to develop microprocessors that are bus interface protocol compatible with Intel microprocessors because our patent-cross license agreement with Intel does not extend to Intel’s proprietary bus interface protocol. Thus, our microprocessors are not designed to function with motherboards and chipsets designed to work with Intel microprocessors. Our ability to compete with Intel in the market for microprocessors will depend on our continued success in developing and maintaining relationships with infrastructure providers in order to ensure that these third-party designers and manufacturers of motherboards, chipsets and other system components support our microprocessor offerings, particularly AMD64-based microprocessors. A failure of the designers and producers of motherboards, chipsets and other system components to support our microprocessor offerings, particularly our AMD64-based microprocessors, could have a material adverse effect on us.

We expect Intel to maintainleverages its dominant positiondominance in the microprocessor market to continue to besell its integrated chipsets. Moreover, computer manufacturers are increasingly using integrated graphics chipsets rather than discrete graphics components, particularly for notebooks, because they cost less than traditional discrete graphics components while offering satisfactory graphics performance for most mainstream PCs. Intel could also take actions that place our discrete GPUs and integrated chipsets at a significant competitorcompetitive disadvantage, including giving one or more of our competitors in the Flash memorygraphics market, andsuch as Nvidia Corporation, preferential access to continue to invest heavily in research and development, new manufacturing facilities andits proprietary graphics interface or other technology companies. useful information.

Intel has substantially greater financial resources than we do and accordingly spends substantially greater amounts on research and development and production capacity than we do. We also expect competition from Intel to maintain its dominant position and to continue to invest heavily in marketing, research and increase to the extent Intel reduces prices on its microprocessor and/or Flash memory productsdevelopment, new manufacturing facilities and introduces new competitive products. For example, in 2004 Intel introduced a 64-bit processor for servers and workstations that runs existing 32-bit software applications. This processor competes with our AMD Opteron microprocessor. In addition, Intel recently announced that it will offer dual-core 64-bit processors for the desktop market in the second quarter of 2005. We plan to offer dual-core processors for the PC market in the second half of 2005. Moreover, Intel currently manufactures certain of its microprocessor products on 300-millimeter wafers using 90-nanometer processother technology which can result in products that are higher performing, use less power and cost less to manufacture. We are currently completing our transition to 90-nanometer process technology for microprocessor manufacturing and we expect to transition to 300-millimeter wafers in 2006. Intel also recently announced that it will ship in 2005 a multi-level cell NOR Flash memory product using 90-nanometer process technology. We are currently manufacturing our NOR Flash memory products using 110-nanometer process technology, and we plan to migrate to 90-nanometer manufacturing in the second half of 2005.companies. To the extent Intel manufactures a significantly larger portion of its microprocessor products on larger wafers and smallerusing more advanced process technologies, earlier thanor introduces competitive new products into the market before we do, we may be more vulnerable to Intel’s aggressive marketing and pricing strategies. strategies for microprocessor products.

As long as Intel remains in this dominant position, we may be materially adversely affected by Intel’s:

Intel’s dominant position in the microprocessor market and integrated graphics chipset market, its existing relationships with top-tier OEMs and its aggressive marketing and pricing strategies could result in lower unit sales and a lower average selling pricesprice for our products, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

The loss of a significant customer may have a material adverse effect on us.

Collectively, our top five OEM and distributor customers (including Fujitsu) accounted for approximately 50 percentsuccess of our total revenues in 2004. In addition, our Flash memory product sales growthbusiness is dependent upon our ability to introduce products on a large extent on demand for high-end mobile telephonestimely basis with required features and performance levels that provide value to our sales in the wireless market have been

concentrated in a limited group of customers. If we were to lose acustomers and support and coincide with significant customer, or if one of our top customers downsizes or otherwise contracts its operations, demand for our products could decrease and we would be materially adversely affected.

If we fail to keep pace with new product designs and improvements or if we pursue technologies that do not become commercially accepted, customers may not buy our products and we may be adversely affected.industry transitions.

Our success depends to a significant extent on the development, qualification, implementation and acceptance of new product designs and improvements that provide value to our customers. Our ability to develop and qualify suchnew products and related technologies to meet evolving industry requirements, and at prices acceptable to our customers and on a timely basis are significant factors in determining our competitiveness in our target markets. For example, computer systems with our first AMD Fusion product, codenamed “Llano,” are expected to be available in the market in 2011. The “Llano” platform known as “Sabine” will embody a new processor architecture which integrates the CPU and GPU on a single die. If we fail to or are delayed in developing or qualifying new products or technologies, such as “Llano,” we may lose competitive positioning, which could cause us to lose market share and require us to discount the selling prices of our products.

Delays in developing or qualifying new products can also cause us to miss our customers’ product design windows. If our customers do not include our products in the initial design of their computer systems, they will typically not use our products in their systems until at least the next design configuration. The process of being qualified for inclusion in a customer’s system can be lengthy and could cause us to further miss a cycle in the demand of end-users, which also could result in a loss of market share and harm our business.

Moreover, market demand requires that products incorporate new features and performance standards on an industry-wide basis. Over the life of a specific product, the average selling price undergoes regular price reductions. The introduction of new products and enhancements to existing products is necessary to maintain an overall corporate average selling price. If we are unable to introduce new products with sufficient increases in average selling price or increased unit sales volumes capable of offsetting these reductions in the average selling price of existing products, our revenues, inventories, gross margins and operating results could be materially adversely affected.

Our ability to design and introduce new products in a timely manner is dependent upon third-party intellectual property.

In the design and development of new products and product enhancements, we rely on third-party intellectual property such as software development tools and hardware testing tools. The design requirements necessary to meet consumer demands for more features and greater functionality from semiconductor products in the future may exceed the capabilities of the third-party development tools available to us. If the third-party intellectual property that we use becomes unavailable or fails to produce designs that meet consumer demands, our business could be materially adversely affected.

We rely on GLOBALFOUNDRIES to manufacture our microprocessor products, and if GLOBALFOUNDRIES is unable to manufacture our products on a timely basis and on competitive process technologies or to meet our capacity requirements, our business could be materially adversely affected.

We rely on GLOBALFOUNDRIES to manufacture our microprocessor products. If GLOBALFOUNDRIES suffers any damage to its facilities, is unable to secure necessary raw materials from its suppliers, loses benefits under its material agreements such as its joint development agreement with IBM, is unable to obtain funding from ATIC under the funding agreement or otherwise, experiences power outages, lacks sufficient capacity to manufacture our products, encounters financial difficulties or suffers any other disruption or reduction in efficiency of foundry capacity, we may encounter supply delays or disruptions, which could materially adversely impact our business. If GLOBALFOUNDRIES is unable to remain competitive using advanced process technologies or is unable to manufacture our products on a timely basis or meet our capacity requirements, our business could be materially adversely affected. For example, duringGLOBALFOUNDRIES will manufacture our Fusion products using 32 nanometer process technology. If GLOBALFOUNDRIES experiences delays or difficulties in transitioning to 32 nanometer process technology, this could delay the second half of 2004 we experienced a delay in qualifying a new Spansion Flash memory product for the wireless segment. This delay contributed to lower than anticipated Flash memory product revenues for the quarter ended December 26, 2004. Qualifying this product in accordance with our specifications and our revised schedule is critical to our ability to increase salesintroduction of our Memory Products segment.

Fusion products and have a material adverse effect on our business. If we are unable to obtain sufficient supply from GLOBALFOUNDRIES, we would have to move production of our products to new manufacturers, which could result in significant delays. In January 2010, GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced that it is integrating operations with Chartered Semiconductors Manufacturing Ltd. With Chartered, GLOBALFOUNDRIES significantly expanded its customer base to over 150 customers. Although GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing capacity also increased, the integration process and the increased customer base could lead to delays or disruptions in manufacturing our products, which could materially adversely impact our business.

In addition, pursuant to the wafer supply agreement between us and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, we plancompensate GLOBALFOUNDRIES on a cost plus-basis, which can result in increased per unit manufacturing costs for AMD compared to introducemanufacturing wafers in-house. Although this cost-plus arrangement did not impact our dual-core microprocessorsconsolidated financial statements while we were consolidating the financial results of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, as of December 27, 2009, we no longer consolidate the financial results of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and this cost-plus arrangement may have a negative impact on our reported gross margins. If GLOBALFOUNDRIES fails to operate at a competitive cost level, our business could be materially adversely affected.

Failure to achieve expected manufacturing yields for serversour products could negatively impact our financial results.

Semiconductor manufacturing yields are a function of both product design and workstations in mid-2005, followed by dual-processorsprocess technology, which is typically proprietary to the manufacturer, and low yields can result from either design or process technology failures. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is responsible for developing manufacturing process technologies used to manufacture our microprocessor products and other third-party foundries are responsible for the PC market in the second half of 2005. If we are notprocess technologies used to manufacture our graphics and chipset products. We cannot be certain that GLOBALFOUNDRIES or other third-party foundries will be able to introduce dual-core processorsdevelop, obtain or successfully implement leading-edge process technologies needed to manufacture future generations of our products profitably or on a timely basis or that our competitors will not develop new technologies, products or processes earlier. During periods when foundries are implementing new process technologies, their manufacturing facilities may not be fully productive. A substantial delay in the technology transitions to smaller process technologies could have a material adverse effect on us, particularly if our dual-core processors do notcompetitors transition to more cost effective technologies before us. For example, GLOBALFOUNDRIES will manufacture our Fusion products using 32 nanometer process technology. If GLOBALFOUNDRIES experiences delays or difficulties in transitioning to 32 nanometer process technology, this could delay the introduction of our Fusion products and have a material adverse effect on our business. Moreover, if foundries experience manufacturing inefficiencies, we may fail to achieve market acceptance, we will beacceptable yields or experience product delivery delays. Any decrease in manufacturing yields could result in an increase in per unit costs or force us to allocate our reduced product supply among our customers, which could potentially harm our relationships with our customers and reputation and materially adversely affected.affect our financial results.

A lackThe under-utilization of market acceptance of MirrorBit technology couldGLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing facilities may increase our per unit costs and may have a material adverse effect on us.

It is difficult to predict future growth or decline in the demand for our products, making it difficult to forecast our requirements accurately. If our target markets do not grow, we may under-utilize GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing facilities. Because of our commitments to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, during periods in which we under-utilize GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing facilities as a result of reduced demand for our microprocessor products, we may not be able to reduce our costs in proportion to the reduced revenues for such a period. If this occurs, our operating results will be materially adversely affected.

We believerely on third-party foundries and other contractors to manufacture our graphics and chipset products.

In addition to relying on GLOBALFOUNDRIES to manufacture our microprocessor products, we currently rely on other independent foundries to manufacture our graphics and chipset products. We also rely on third-party manufacturers to manufacture our high end graphics boards. Independent contractors perform the assembly, testing and packaging of these products. In some cases, we obtain these manufacturing services for our graphics and chipset products on a purchase order basis and these manufacturers are not required to provide us with any specified minimum quantity of product. Accordingly, our graphics business depends on these suppliers to allocate to us a portion of their manufacturing capacity sufficient to meet our needs, to produce products of acceptable quality and at acceptable manufacturing yields and to deliver those products to us on a timely basis at acceptable prices. We cannot assure you that market acceptancethese manufacturers will be able to meet our near-term or long-term manufacturing requirements. For example, we have experienced constrained wafer foundry capacity for our latest generation graphics products that we introduced in the second half of MirrorBit technology is a critical factor impacting our ability2009 and the first quarter of 2010. We expect to increase Flash memory product revenuescontinue to experience such supply constraints through 2010. We may also face constrained wafer foundry capacity for certain earlier generation graphics and market share and decrease the cost ofcurrent chipset products in the second half of 2010. If we are unable to fulfill our Memory Products segment. MirrorBit technology iscustomer’s orders on a memory cell architecture that enables Flash memory products to store two bits of data in a single memory cell thereby doubling the density or storage capacity of each memory cell. A lack of continued market acceptance of MirrorBit technology, adoption of such technology at a slower rate than we anticipate, or any substantial difficulty in transitioning Flash memory products, including those based on MirrorBit technology, to any future process technology could reduce our ability to be competitive in the market.

Spansion Flash memory products are based on NOR architecture, and a significant market shift to NAND architecture could materially adversely affect us.

Flash memory products are generally based on either NOR architecture or NAND architecture. NAND has historically been the preferred architecture for data storage because of attributes such as high densities and fast write and erase speeds. NOR has been the preferred architecture for code execution because of its fast read performance and superior reliability. To date, our Flash memory products have been based on NOR architecture, and we do not manufacture products based on NAND architecture.

During 2003 and 2004, industry sales of products based on NAND architecture grew at higher rates than sales of NOR-based products. This resulted in NAND vendors gaining a greater share of the overall Flash memory market. As mobile telephones and other consumer-driven applications become more advanced they will require higher density Flash memory to meet increased data storage requirements. Because storage requirements will increase to accommodate data-intensive applications, customers may increasingly choose NAND-based products. Any significant shift in the marketplace to products based on NAND architecture or other architectures may reduce the total market available to us and therefore reduce our market share.

We intend to address end markets traditionally served by NAND-based products with products based on our ORNAND architecture. We are currently developing these products and if they, or any future products based on

our MirrorBit technology and ORNAND architecture, fail to achieve acceptance in markets traditionally served by NAND architecture, or at all,timely basis we could be materially adversely affected.

We are required to reach agreement with Fujitsu regarding The manufacturers we use also fabricate wafers and assemble, test and package products for other companies, including certain actions of our majority-owned subsidiary, Spansion LLC, andcompetitors. They could choose to prioritize capacity for other users, increase the prices that they charge us on short notice or reduce or eliminate deliveries to us, which could have a material adverse effect on our interests may not be aligned.

business.

We own 60 percentmust have reliable relationships with our wafer manufacturers and subcontractors to ensure adequate product supply to respond to customer demand. If we move production of the equity interestour products to new manufacturers or if current manufacturers implement new process technology or design rules, any transition difficulties may result in Spansion LLC while Fujitsu owns the remaining 40 percent. Although we are entitledlower yields or poorer performance of our products. Because it could take several quarters to appointestablish a majority of the board of managers which generally manages the affairs of Spansion LLC, certain actions by Spansion LLC require Fujitsu’s consent for as long as Fujitsu maintains specific levels of equity ownership in Spansion LLC. In addition, based upon designated thresholds of Fujitsu’s percentage interest in Spansion LLC, certain actions require the affirmative vote of at leaststrategic relationship with a majority of the managers appointed by Fujitsu. These actions, which primarily represent protective rights for Fujitsu as a minority member, include:

There can be no guarantee that our interests and those of Fujitsu will be aligned with respect to such decisions andnew manufacturing partner, we may be unable to secure an alternative supply for any specific product in a short time frame. We could experience significant delays in the shipment of our products if we are required to find alternative foundries or manufacturing partners. Other risks associated with our dependence on third-party manufacturers include limited control over delivery schedules and quality assurance, lack of capacity in periods of excess demand, misappropriation of our intellectual property, dependence on several small undercapitalized subcontractors, limited ability to manage inventory and parts, and exposure to foreign countries and operations. If we are unable to secure sufficient or reliable supplies of wafers, our ability to meet customer demand for our graphics business may be adversely affected and this could have a material adverse effect on us.

We depend on third-party companies for the design, manufacture and supply of motherboards, BIOS software and other computer platform components.

We depend on third-party companies for the design, manufacture and supply of motherboards, BIOS software and other components that support our microprocessor offerings. Our microprocessors are not designed to function with motherboards and chipsets designed to work with Intel microprocessors. If we are unable to secure sufficient support for our microprocessor products from designers and manufacturers of motherboards, our business would be materially adversely affected. If the designers, manufacturers and suppliers of motherboards and other components decrease their support for our product offerings, our business could be materially adversely affected.

If we lose Microsoft Corporation’s support for our products, our ability to sell our products could be materially adversely affected.

Our ability to innovate beyond the x86 instruction set controlled by Intel depends partially on Microsoft designing and developing its operating systems to run on or support our microprocessor products. If Microsoft does not continue to design and develop its operating systems so that they work with our x86 instruction sets, independent software providers may forego designing their software applications to take steps that we believe are desirable.advantage of our innovations and customers may not purchase PCs with our microprocessors. In addition, software drivers sold with our products are certified by Microsoft. If Microsoft did not certify a reduction indriver, or if we otherwise fail to retain the support of Microsoft, our percentage interest may result inability to market our inabilityproducts would be materially adversely affected.

If we do not fully realize the anticipated benefits of our GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing joint venture, our business could be adversely impacted.

We anticipate realizing certain benefits to appointour business from the GLOBALFOUNDRIES joint venture, including a majoritymore variable cost model and the ability to take advantage of, Spansion LLC’s boardas a shareholder of managers, which couldGLOBALFOUNDRIES, the shift by integrated device manufacturers to a fabless business model. We cannot assure you that our relationship with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ATIC will result in the full realization of these or any other benefits.

The recent instability of the financial markets may adversely impact our business and operating results.

There is continued concern over the instability of the financial markets and their influence on the global economy. As a result, our current or potential future customers may experience cash flow problems and as a result may modify, delay or cancel plans to purchase our products. Additionally, if our customers are not successful in generating sufficient revenue or are unable to secure financing, they may not be able to pay, or may delay payment of, accounts receivable that they owe us. Any inability of our current or potential future customers to pay us for our products may adversely affect our earnings and cash flow. Moreover, our key suppliers may reduce their output or become insolvent, thereby adversely impacting our ability to manufacture our products. In addition, economic conditions may make it more difficult for us to raise funds through borrowings or private or public sales of debt or equity securities. If global economic conditions deteriorate further or do not show improvement, we may experience material adverse impacts to our business and operating results.

If we cannot generate sufficient revenues and operating cash flow or obtain external financing, we may face a cash shortfall and be unable to make all of our planned investments in research and development.

Although we make substantial investments in research and development, we cannot be certain that we will be able to develop, obtain or successfully implement new products and technologies on a timely basis. Our ability to fund research and development expenditures depends on generating sufficient cash flow from operations and the availability of external financing, if necessary. Our research and development expenditures, together with ongoing operating expenses, will be a substantial drain on our cash flow and may decrease our cash balances. If new competitors, technological advances by existing competitors or other competitive factors require us to invest significantly greater resources than anticipated in our research and development efforts, our operating expenses would increase. If we are required to invest significantly greater resources than anticipated in research and development efforts without an increase in revenue, our operating results could decline.

We regularly assess markets for external financing opportunities, including debt and equity financing. Additional debt or equity financing may not be available when needed or, if available, may not be available on satisfactory terms. The health of the credit markets may adversely impact our ability to obtain financing when needed. In addition, any downgrades from credit rating agencies such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s may adversely impact our ability to get external financing or the terms of such financing. Credit agency downgrades may also impact relationships with our suppliers, who may limit our credit lines. Our inability to obtain needed financing or to generate sufficient cash from operations may require us to abandon projects or curtail planned investments in research and development. If we curtail planned investments in research and development or abandon projects, our products may fail to remain competitive and we would be materially adversely affected.

The loss of effective controla significant customer may have a material adverse effect on us.

Collectively, our top five customers accounted for approximately 49% of Spansion LLC, althoughour net revenue in the resultsfirst fiscal quarter of operations2010. We expect that a small number of Spansion LLC maycustomers will continue to impact significantlyaccount for a substantial part of revenues of our microprocessor and graphics businesses in the future. During the first fiscal quarter of 2010, five customers accounted for approximately 54% of the net revenue of our Computing Solutions segment and five customers accounted for approximately 46% of the net revenue of our Graphics segment. If one of our top microprocessor or graphics business customers decided to stop buying our products, or if one of these customers were to materially reduce its operations or its demand for our products, we would be materially adversely affected.

The semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and has experienced severe downturns that materially adversely affected, and may in the future materially adversely affect, our business.

The semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and has experienced significant downturns, often in conjunction with constant and rapid technological change, wide fluctuations in supply and demand, continuous new product introductions, price erosion and declines in general economic conditions. The current uncertainty in global economic conditions has also impacted the semiconductor market as consumers and businesses have deferred purchases, which negatively impacted demand for our products. Our financial performance has been, and may in the future be, negatively affected by these downturns. We incurred substantial losses in recent downturns, due to:

If the current downturn in the semiconductor industry does not continue to improve, we will be materially adversely affected.

The demand for our products depends in part on continued growth in the industries and geographies into which they are sold. Fluctuations in demand for our products or a market decline in any of these industries or geographies would have a material adverse effect on our results of operationsoperations.

Our business is dependent upon the market for desktop and notebook PCs and servers. In 2009 and 2008, a significant portion of our Computing Solutions revenue was related to desktop PCs. Industry-wide fluctuations in the computer marketplace have materially adversely affected us in the past, are currently affecting us and may materially adversely affect us in the future. Recently, as a result of macroeconomic challenges currently affecting the global economy, end user demand for PCs and servers decreased significantly. Although end-user PC demand has stabilized beginning in the second half of 2009, end-customers continue to demand value-priced products and spending by enterprises has not rebounded to pre-recession levels. In addition, form factors have steadily shifted from desktop PCs to notebook PCs over the past three years, and we stillexpect that this trajectory will continue. The growth of our business is also dependent on continued demand for our products from high-growth global markets. If demand from these markets is below our expectations, sales of our products may decrease, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

The markets in which our products are sold are highly competitive.

The markets in which our products are sold are very competitive, and delivering the latest and best products to market on a timely basis is critical to achieving revenue growth. We expect competition to intensify due to rapid technological changes, frequent product introductions and aggressive pricing by competitors. We believe that the

main factors that determine our product competitiveness are timely product introductions, product quality, power consumption (including battery life), reliability, selling price, speed, size (or form factor), cost, adherence to industry standards (and the creation of open industry standards), software and hardware compatibility and stability and brand awareness.

Typically, after a product is introduced, costs and the average selling price normally decrease over time as production efficiency improves, and successive generations of products are developed and introduced for sale. Recently, as a result of the credit market crisis and other macroeconomic challenges currently affecting the global economy, end user demand for PCs and servers decreased significantly. Although end-user PC demand has stabilized beginning in the second half of 2009, consumers are focusing more on the price of PCs as a key factor in their buying decision. In turn, OEMs have applied pressure on semiconductor suppliers to reduce component prices, which has materially adversely affected the average selling price. We expect that competition will continue to be intense in these markets and our competitors’ products may be requiredless costly, provide better performance or include additional features that render our products uncompetitive. For example, Intel is transitioning to make loans32 nanometer process technology before us. Using a more advanced process technology can contribute to lower product manufacturing costs and guarantee indebtedness of, Spansion LLC.

improve a product’s performance and power efficiency. Some competitors may have greater access or rights to companion technologies, including interface, processor and memory technical information. Competitive pressures could adversely impact the demand for our products, which could harm our revenue and gross margin.

Our operating results are subject to quarterly and seasonal sales patterns.

A substantial portion of our quarterly sales have historically been made in the last month of the quarter. This uneven sales pattern makes prediction of net salesrevenues for each financial period difficult and increases the risk of unanticipated variations in quarterly results and financial condition. In addition, our operating results tend to vary seasonally. For example, demand in the retail sector of the PC market is often stronger during the fourth quarter as a result of the winter holiday season.season and weaker in the first quarter. European sales are often weaker during the summer months. Many of the factors that create and affect seasonal trends are beyond our control.

Manufacturing capacity constraints and manufacturing capacity utilization rates may adversely affect us.

There may be situations in which our manufacturing facilitiesIf essential equipment or materials are inadequatenot available to meet the demand for certain of our products. Our inability to obtain sufficient manufacturing capacity to meet demand, either in our own facilities or through foundry or similar arrangements with third parties, could have a material adverse effect on us.

At times we may underutilize our manufacturing facilities as a result of reduced demand for certain of our products. During such times, many of our costs remain fixed and cannot be reduced in proportion to the reduced revenues for such a period. We are substantially increasing our manufacturing capacity by building Fab 36, transitioning to smaller manufacturing process technologies and making significant capital investments in our existing manufacturing facilities. If the increase in demand formanufacture our products, is not consistent with our expectations, we may underutilize manufacturing facilities. This has in the past had, and in the future may have, a material adverse effect on us.

Unless we maintain manufacturing efficiency, our future profitability could be materially adversely affected.

ManufacturingWe purchase equipment and materials from a number of suppliers and our operations depend upon obtaining deliveries of adequate supplies of equipment and materials on a timely basis. From time to time, suppliers may extend lead times, limit supply to us or increase prices due to capacity constraints or other factors. Because some of the materials that we purchase are complex, it is difficult for us to substitute one supplier for another. Certain raw materials that are used in the manufacture of our products involves highly complex processes that require advanced equipment. Ourare available only from a limited number of suppliers.

For example, GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufacturing efficiencyof our microprocessor products is an important factor inlargely dependent on one supplier of our profitability, and we cannot be sure that we will be ablesilicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. We also depend on a limited number of foreign companies to maintain or increase our manufacturing efficiency tosupply the same extent as our competitors. We continuously modify manufacturing processes in an effort to improve yields and product performance and decrease costs. We may fail to achieve acceptable yields or experience product delivery delays as a resultmajority of among other things, capacity constraints, construction delays, delays in the developmentcertain types of new process technologies, changes in our process technologies, upgrades or expansion of existing facilities, or impurities or other difficulties in the manufacturing process.

We are currently completing the transition to 90-nanometer process technologyintegrated circuit packages for our microprocessor products. In addition, we plan to transitionSimilarly, certain non-proprietary materials or components such as memory, PCBs, substrates and capacitors used in the manufacture of certain Flash memoryour graphics products are currently available from only a limited number of sources and are often subject to 90-nanometer process technologyrapid changes in price and availability. Interruption of supply or increased demand in the second half of 2005. During periods whenindustry could cause shortages and price increases in various essential materials. The macroeconomic challenges affecting the global economy may impact our key suppliers who may reduce their output and become insolvent which may adversely impact our ability to procure key materials. If we are implementing new process technologies,unable to procure certain of these materials, or our foundries are unable to procure materials for manufacturing facilitiesour products, we would be materially adversely affected.

Our issuance to WCH of warrants to purchase 35,000,000 shares of our common stock, if and when exercised by WCH, will dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders, and the conversion of our 5.75% Notes and 6.00% Notes may not be fully productive. A substantial delaydilute the ownership interest of our existing stockholders.

The warrants issued to WCH became exercisable in July 2009. Any issuance by us of additional shares to WCH upon exercise of the warrants will dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders. Any sales in the technology transitionspublic market by WCH of any shares owned by WCH could adversely affect prevailing market prices of our common stock, and the anticipated exercise by WCH of the warrants we issued to smaller process technologiesWCH could depress the price of our common stock.

Moreover, the conversion of our 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012, or 5.75% Notes, and remaining 6.00% Notes may dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders. The conversion of the 5.75% Notes and the 6.00% Notes could have a material adversedilutive effect on us, particularly if our competitors transitionearnings per share to more cost effective technologies earlier than we do. Our resultsthe extent that the price of operationsour common stock exceeds the conversion price of the 5.75% Notes and 6.00% Notes. Any sales in the public market of our common stock issuable upon conversion of the 5.75% Notes or 6.00% Notes could also be adversely affected byaffect prevailing market prices of our common stock. In addition, the increase in fixed costsconversion of the 5.75% Notes or 6.00% Notes into cash and operating expenses related to increases in production capacity if revenues do not increase proportionately.

shares of our common stock could depress the price of our common stock.

If our microprocessorsproducts are not compatible with some or all industry-standard software and hardware, we could be materially adversely affected.

Our microprocessorsproducts may not be fully compatible with some or all industry-standard software and hardware. Further, we may be unsuccessful in correcting any such compatibility problems in a timely manner. If our customers are unable to achieve compatibility with software or hardware after our products are shipped in volume, we could be materially adversely affected. In addition, the mere announcement of an incompatibility problem relating to our products could have a material adverse effect on us.

Costs related to defective products could have a material adverse effect on us.

OneProducts as complex as those we offer may contain defects or morefailures when first introduced or when new versions or enhancements to existing products are released. We cannot assure you that, despite our testing procedures, errors will not be found in new products or releases after commencement of commercial shipments in the future, which could result in loss of or delay in market acceptance of our products, material recall and replacement costs, delay in recognition or loss of revenues, writing down the inventory of defective products, the diversion of the attention of our engineering personnel from product development efforts, defending against litigation related to defective products or related property damage or personal injury, and damage to our reputation in the industry and could adversely affect our relationships with our customers. In addition, we may have difficulty identifying the end customers of the defective products in the field. As a result, we could incur substantial costs to implement modifications to correct defects. Any of these problems could materially adversely affect us.

We could be subject to potential product liability claims if one of our products causes, or merely appears to have caused, an injury. Claims may be found to be defective after the product has been shipped to customers in volume. The cost of a recall, software fix, product replacements and/made by consumers or product returnsothers selling our products, and we may be substantial andsubject to claims against us even if an alleged injury is due to the actions of others. A product liability claim, recall or other claim with respect to uninsured liabilities or for amounts in excess of insured liabilities could have a material adverse effect on us. In addition, modifications needed to fix the defect may impede performance of the product.

our business.

If essential equipment or materials are not available to manufacture ourOur receipt of royalty revenues is dependent upon being designed into third-party products we could be materially adversely affected.and the success of those products.

Our manufacturing operations depend upon obtaining deliveriesgraphics technology for game consoles is used in the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles. The revenues that we receive from these products are in the form of equipmentnon-recurring engineering fees charged for design and adequate supplies of materials on a timely basis. We purchase equipment and materials from a number of suppliers. From time to time, suppliers may extend lead times, limit supplydevelopment services, as well as royalties paid to us or increase prices dueby Nintendo and Microsoft. Our royalty revenues

are directly related to capacity constraints or other factors. Because some equipmentthe sales of these products and material that we purchase is complex, it is sometimes difficult for us to substitute one supplier for another or one piecereflective of equipment for another. In addition, certain raw materials we usetheir success in the manufacturemarket. If Nintendo or Microsoft does not include our graphics technology in future generations of their game consoles, our products are availablerevenues from a limited number of suppliers.

For example, we are largely dependent on one supplier for our 200-millimeter and 300-millimeter silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. Although there are alternative sources available for us to procure these wafers,royalties would decline significantly. Moreover, we have not qualified these sourcesno control over the marketing efforts of Nintendo and Microsoft and we do not believecannot make any assurances that they currently have sufficient capacity to meet our requirements for SOI wafers. We are also dependent on other key chemicals from a limited numbersales of suppliers and rely on a limited number of foreign companies to supply the majority of certain types of IC packages we purchase. Similarly, we purchase commercial non-Flash memory die, such as SRAM and pSRAM, from third-

party suppliers and incorporate these die into Spansion multi-chip package products. Some of these suppliers are also our competitorsthose products will achieve expected levels in the Flash memory market. Interruption of supplycurrent or increased demand infuture fiscal years. Consequently, the industry could cause shortagesrevenues from royalties expected by us from these products may not be fully realized, and price increases in various essential materials. If we are unable to procure certain of these materials, weour operating results may have to reduce our manufacturing operations. Such a reduction could have a material adverse effect on us.

be adversely affected.

Our inability to continue to attract and retain qualified personnel may hinder our product development programs.

Our future success depends upon the continued service of numerous qualified engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and executive personnel. If we are not able to continue to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel necessary for our business, the progress of our product development programs could be hindered, and we could be materially adversely affected.

If we fail to maintain the efficiency of our supply chain as we respond to increases or changes in customer demand for our products, our business could be materially adversely affected.

Our ability to meet customer demand for our products depends, in part, on our ability to deliver the products our customers want on a timely basis. Accordingly, we rely on our supply chain for the manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment of our products. As we continue to grow our business, acquire new OEM customers and strengthen relationships with existing OEM customers, the efficiency of our supply chain will become increasingly important because OEMs tend to have specific requirements for particular products, and specific time-frames in which they require delivery of these products.

We outsource to third parties certain supply-chain logistics functions, including physical distributionportions of our products,product distribution and transportation management, and co-source some information technology services.

We rely on a third-party providerproviders to deliveroperate our regional product distribution centers and to manage the transportation of our work-in-process and finished products among our facilities and to our customers and to distribute materials for our manufacturing facilities.customers. In addition, we rely on a third-party provider in Indiathird parties to provide certain information technology services to us, including helpdesk support, desktop application services, business and software support applications, server and storage administration, data center operations, database administration, and voice, video and remote access. Our relationships with these providers are governed by fixed term contracts. We cannot guarantee that these providers will fulfill their respective responsibilities in a timely manner in accordance with the contract terms, in which case our internal operations and the distribution of our products to our customers and the distribution of materials for our fabrication facilities could be materially adversely affected. Also, we cannot guarantee that our contracts with these third-party providers will be renewed, in which case we would have to transition these functions in-house or secure new providers, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

In addition, we decided to outsource or co-source these functions to third parties primarily to lower our operating expenses and to create a more variable cost structure. However,us if the costs related to administration, communication and coordination of these third-party providers are greater than we expect, then we willtransition is not realize our anticipated cost savings.

executed appropriately.

Uncertainties involving the ordering and shipment of and payment for, our products could materially adversely affect us.

Sales ofWe typically sell our products are typically made pursuant to individual purchase orders. We generally do not have long-term supply arrangements with our microprocessor customers. From time to time, we enter into long-term supply arrangements with our Flash memory customers.customers or minimum purchase requirements except that orders generally must be for standard pack quantities. Generally, our customers may cancel orders more than 30 days prior to shipment without incurring a significant penalty.fees. We base our inventory levels on customers’ estimates of demand for their products, which are difficultmay not accurately predict the quantity or type of our products that our customers will want in the future or ultimately end up purchasing. Our ability to predict. This difficulty may be compoundedforecast demand is even further complicated when we sell to OEMs indirectly through distributors, as our forecasts for demand are then based on estimates provided by multiple parties. Moreover, PC and consumer markets are characterized by short product lifecycles, which can lead to rapid obsolescence and price erosion. In addition, our customers may change their inventory practices on short notice for any reason. TheWe may build inventories during periods of anticipated growth, and the cancellation or

deferral of product orders the return of previously sold products or overproduction due to failure of anticipated orders to materialize, could result in excess or obsolete inventory, which could result in write-downs of inventory. inventory and an adverse effect on profit margins. Factors that may result in excess or obsolete inventory, which could result in write-downs of the value of our inventory, a reduction in the average selling price, and/or a reduction in our gross margin include:

Because market conditions are uncertain, these and other factors could materially adversely affect us.

Our reliance on third-party distributors and add-in-board partners (AIBs) subjects us to certain risks.

We market and sell our products directly and through third-party distributors and AIBs pursuant to agreements that can generally be terminated for convenience by either party upon prior notice to the other party. In addition, these

These agreements are non-exclusive and permit both our distributors and AIBs to offer our competitors’ products. In 2004, one of our distributors, Avnet, Inc. accounted for approximately 13 percent of our consolidated sales. In addition, Fujitsu accounted for approximately 22 percent of our consolidated sales in 2004. Fujitsu primarily distributes Spansion Flash memory products. Accordingly, weWe are dependent on our distributors and AIBs to supplement our direct marketing and sales efforts. If any significant distributor or AIB or a substantial number of our distributors or AIBs terminated their relationship with us or decided to market our competitors’ products over our products, our ability to bring our products to market would be impacted and we couldwould be materially adversely affected.

Additionally, distributors and AIBs typically maintain an inventory of our products. In most instances, our agreements with distributors protect their inventory of our products against price reductions, as well as provide return rights for any product that we have removed from our price book orand that is not more than twelve months older than the manufacturemanufacturing code date. In addition, someSome agreements with our distributors also contain standard stock rotation provisions permitting limited levels of product returns. Our agreements with AIBs protect their inventory of our products against price reductions. We defer the gross margins on our sales to distributors and AIBs, resulting from both our deferral of revenue and related product costs, until the applicable products are re-sold by the distributors.distributors or the AIBs. However, in the event of an unexpecteda significant decline in the price of our products, the price protection rights we offer to our distributors couldand AIBs would materially adversely affect us because our revenue would decline.

Failures in the global credit markets have impacted and may continue to impact the liquidity of our auction rate securities.

As of March 27, 2010, the par value of all our auction rate securities, or ARS, was $157 million with an estimated fair value of $150 million. As of March 27, 2010, our investments in ARS included approximately $57 million of student loan ARS and $34 million of municipal and corporate ARS. The uncertainties in the credit markets have affected all of our ARS and auctions for these securities have failed to settle on their respective settlement dates. The auctions failed because there was insufficient demand for these securities. A failed auction does not represent a default by the issuer of the ARS. For each unsuccessful action, the interest rate is reset based on a formula set forth in each security, which is generally higher than the current market unless subject to an interest rate cap. When auctions for these securities fail, the investments may not be readily convertible to cash until a future auction of these investments is successful, a buyer is found outside of the auction process, the issuers of the ARS establish a different form of financing to replace these securities or redeem them, or final payment is due according to contractual maturities (currently, ranging from 17 to 42 years for our ARS). Although we have had some limited redemptions since the failed auctions began, the liquidity of these investments has been impacted.

While we believe that the current illiquidity of these investments is temporary, we cannot predict with certainty when liquidity in the ARS market will return. If this market illiquidity continues or worsens, we may be required to record additional impairment charges with respect to these investments in the future, which could adversely impact our results of operations.

As of March 27, 2010, we owned $61 million par value of ARS that we purchased from UBS prior to February 13, 2008. From June 30, 2010 through July 2, 2012, we have the right, but not the obligation, to sell, at par, these ARS to UBS. During the course of our exercise period with respect to the UBS ARS, UBS may not have financial resources to satisfy its financial obligations. In the event UBS cannot satisfy its financial obligations, we would no longer have the certainty as to the liquidity of these ARS.

Our operations in foreign countries are subject to political and economic risks and our worldwide operations are subject to natural disasters, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

We maintain operations around the world, including in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. We rely on GLOBALFOUNDRIES for our wafer fabrication capacity for microprocessors. Currently, GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufactures our products in facilities that are located in Germany. Nearly all product assembly and final testing of our microprocessor products is performed at manufacturing facilities in China, Malaysia and Singapore. In addition, our graphics and chipset products are manufactured, assembled and tested by independent third parties in the Asia-Pacific region and inventory related to those products is stored there, particularly in Taiwan. We also have international sales operations and as part of our business strategy, we are continuing to seek expansion of product sales in high growth markets. Our internationalInternational sales as a percentagepercent of our total consolidated net salesrevenue were approximately 80 percent and 79 percent in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Nearly all product assembly and final testing of our products are performed at manufacturing facilities in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. We manufacture our microprocessors in Germany and certain Spansion Flash memory products are manufactured in Japan. We also depend on foreign foundry suppliers88% for the productionfirst quarter of our chip sets and our embedded microprocessors for personal connectivity devices and we depend on an2010. We expect that international joint venture for the manufacturesales will continue to be a significant portion of optical photomasks that we intend to usetotal sales in the manufacture of our microprocessors.

foreseeable future.

The political and economic risks associated with our operations in foreign countries include, without limitation:

In addition, our worldwide operations could be subject to natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that disrupt manufacturing or other operations. For example, our Silicon Valley operations are located near major earthquake fault lines in California. Any conflict or uncertainty in the countries in which we operate, including public health or safety, natural disasters or general economic factors, could have a material adverse effect on our business. Any of the above risks, should they occur, could result in an increase in the cost of components, production delays, general business interruptions, delays from difficulties in obtaining export licenses for certain technology, tariffs and other barriers and restrictions, potentially longer payment cycles, potentially increased taxes, restrictions on the repatriation of funds and the burdens of complying with a variety of foreign laws, any of which could ultimately have a material adverse effect on us.

Worldwide economic and political conditions may adversely affect demand for our products.

The lastWorldwide economic slowdown in the United States and worldwideconditions may adversely affectedaffect demand for our products. Although economic conditions have continued to improve sinceAlso, the second half of 2003, another

decline in the worldwide semiconductor market or a future decline in economic conditions or consumer confidence in any significant geographic area would likely decrease the overall demand for our products, which could have a material adverse effect on us. For example, China’s economy has been growing at a fast pace over the past several years, and Chinese authorities have introduced various measures to slow down the pace of economic growth. If Chinese authorities are not able to stage an orderly slowdown, China’s economy could be materially adversely affected. A decline in economic conditions in China could lead to declining worldwide economic conditions. If economic conditions decline, whether in China or worldwide, we could be materially adversely affected.

The occurrence and threat of terrorist attacks and the consequences of sustained military action in the Middle East have in the past, and may in the future, adversely affect demand for our products. Terrorist attacks may negatively affect our operations, directly or indirectly, and such attacks or related armed conflicts may directly impact our physical facilities or those of our suppliers or customers. Furthermore, these attacks may make travel and the transportation of our products more difficult and more expensive, ultimately affecting our sales.which could materially adversely affect us.

Also as a result of terrorism, theThe United States has been and may continue to be involved in armed conflicts that could have a further impact on our sales and our supply chain and our ability to deliver products to our customers.chain. Political and economic instability in some regions of the world may also result and could negatively impact our business. The consequences of armed conflicts are unpredictable and we may not be able to foresee events that could have a material adverse effect on us.

More generally, any of these events could cause consumer confidence and spending to decrease or result in increased volatility toin the United States economy and worldwide financial markets. Any of these occurrences could have a material adverse effect on us and also may result in volatility of the market price for our securities.

Unfavorable currency exchange rate fluctuations could continue to adversely affect us.

As a result of our foreign operations, weWe have sales, costs, assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies, primarily the European Union euro and the Japanese yen. For example:

Canadian dollar. As a consequence, movements in exchange rates could cause our U.S. dollar-denominatedforeign currency denominated expenses to increase as a percentage of net sales,revenue, affecting our profitability and cash flows. In the past, the value of the U.S. dollar has fallen significantly, leading to increasingly unfavorable currency exchange rates on foreign denominated expenses. Whenever we believe appropriate, we hedge a portion of our short-term foreign currency exchange exposure to protect against fluctuations in currency exchange rates. As of December 26, 2004 we had an aggregate of $483 million (notional amount) of short-term foreign currency forward contracts and purchased call option contracts denominated in euro and yen. However, generally, we hedge only a portion of our foreign currency exchange exposure. Moreover, weWe determine our total foreign currency exchange exposure using projections of long-term expenditures for items such as equipment and materials used in manufacturing.payroll. We cannot assure you that our hedgingthese activities will eliminatebe effective in reducing foreign exchange rate exposure. Failure to do so could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flow.

In addition, even where revenuesthe majority of our product sales are denominated in U.S. dollars. Fluctuations in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and expenses are matched, we must translate euro and yen denominated results of operations, assets and liabilities for our foreign subsidiaries to U.S. dollars in our consolidated financial statements. Consequently,the local currency can cause increases andor decreases in the valuecost of our products in the local currency of such customers. An appreciation of the U.S. dollar versusrelative to the euro or yen will affect our reported results of operations and the valuelocal currency could reduce sales of our assets and liabilities in our consolidated balance sheet, even if our results of operations or the value of those assets and liabilities has not changed in their original currency. These transactions could significantly affect the comparability of our results between financial periods and/or result in significant changes to the carrying value of our assets, liabilities and shareholders’ equity.

products.

Our inability to effectively control the sales of our products on the gray market could have a material adverse effect on us.

We market and sell our products directly to OEMs and through authorized third-party distributors. From time to time, our products are diverted from our authorized distribution channels and are sold on the “gray market.” Gray market products entering the market result in shadow inventory that is not visible to us, thus making it difficult to forecast demand accurately. Also, when gray market products enter the market, we and our distribution channel compete with these heavily discounted gray market products, which adversely affects demand for our products.products and negatively impact our margins. In addition, our inability to control gray marketingmarket activities could result in customer satisfaction issues because any time products are purchased outside our authorized distribution channel there is a risk that our customers are buying counterfeit or substandard products, including products that may have been altered, mishandled or damaged, or used products represented as new. Our inability to control sales of our products on the gray market could have a material adverse effect on us.

If we cannot adequately protect our technology or other intellectual property in the United States and abroad, through patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and other measures, we may lose a competitive advantage and incur significant expenses.

We rely on a combination of protections provided by contracts, including confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, copyrights, patents, trademarks and other common law rights, such as trade secrets, to protect our intellectual property. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to adequately protect our technology or

other intellectual property from third partythird-party infringement or from misappropriation in the United States and abroad. Any patent licensed by us or issued to us could be challenged, invalidated or circumvented or rights granted thereunderthere under may not provide a competitive advantage to us. Furthermore, patent applications that we file may not result in issuance of a patent or, if a patent is issued, the patent may not be issued in a form that is advantageous to us. Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights, others may independently develop similar products, duplicate our products or design around our patents and other rights. In addition, it is difficult to monitor compliance with, and enforce, our intellectual property on a worldwide basis in a cost-effective manner.

In jurisdictions where foreign laws provide less intellectual property protection than afforded in the United States and abroad, our technology or other intellectual property may be compromised, and we would be materially adversely affected.

We are party to litigation and may become a party to intellectual propertyother claims or litigation that could cause us to incur substantial costs or pay substantial damages or prohibit us from selling our products.

From time to time we are a defendant or plaintiff in various legal actions. We also sell products to consumers, which could increase our exposure to consumer actions such as product liability claims. On occasion, we receive claims that individuals were allegedly exposed to substances used in our former semiconductor wafer manufacturing facilities and that this alleged exposure caused harm. Litigation can involve complex factual and legal questions, and its outcome is uncertain. Any claim that is successfully asserted against us may result in the payment of damages that could be material to us.

FromWith respect to intellectual property litigation, from time to time, we have been notified, or third parties may bring or have brought actions against us, based on allegations that we may beare infringing the intellectual property rights of others. If any such claims are asserted against us, we may seek to obtain a license under the third party’s intellectual property rights. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain all of the necessary licenses on satisfactory terms, if at all. In the event that we cannot obtain a license, wethese parties may be prevented from using some technologyfile lawsuits against us seeking damages (potentially up to and including treble damages) or an injunction against the sale of our products that incorporate allegedly infringed intellectual property or against the operation of our business as presently conducted, which could result in our having to stop the sale of some of our products or to increase the costs of selling some of our products or could damage our reputation. The award of damages, including material royalty payments, or the entry of an injunction against the manufacture and sale of some or all of our products, would have a material adverse effect on us. We could decide, in the alternative, to redesign our products or to resort to litigation to challenge such claims. Such challenges could be extremely expensive and time-consuming regardless of their merit, cause delays in product release or shipment, and could have a material adverse effect on us. We cannot assure you that litigation related to our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of us and others willcan always be avoided or successfully concluded.

Our failure to comply with any applicable environmental regulations could result in a range of consequences, including fines, suspension of production, alteration of manufacturing processes, sales limitations, and criminal and civil liabilities.

Failure to comply with any applicable environmental regulations could result in a range of consequences including fines, suspension of production, alteration of manufacturing process, sales limitations, and criminal and civil liabilities.

Existing or future regulations could require us to procure expensive pollution abatement or remediation equipment; to modify product designs; or to incur other expenses associated with compliance with environmental regulations. Any failure to control the use of, disposal or storage of, or adequately restrict the discharge of, hazardous substances could subject us to future liabilities and could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Future litigation proceedings may materially adversely affect us.

From time to time we are a defendant or plaintiff in various legal actions. Litigation can involve complex factual and legal questions and its outcome is uncertain. Any claim that is successfully asserted against us may cause us to pay substantial damages. In addition, future litigation may result in injunctions against future product sales. Even if we were to prevail, any litigation could be costly and time-consuming and would divert the attention of our management and key personnel from our business operations, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

Certain individuals have been charged by federal authorities with illegally trading in our stock using certain AMD confidential information.

On January 7, 2010, Anil Kumar, a former senior partner of McKinsey & Company, pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud charges. Mr. Kumar allegedly provided confidential information about us to a person who has been charged by federal authorities with illegally trading in our stock on the basis of that confidential information. To date, we have not been and, to our knowledge, none of our current or former executives or employees have been, charged or otherwise identified as targets or subjects in connection with ongoing proceedings relating to this matter. At this time, we cannot give any assurances as to whether any facts that may be discovered during the proceedings relating to this matter will be damaging to our business, results of operations or reputation.

We are subject to a variety of environmental laws that could result in liabilities.

Our worldwide operations couldand properties have in the past and continue to be subject to various United States and foreign environmental laws and regulations, including those relating to materials used in our products and manufacturing processes, discharge of pollutants into the environment, the treatment, transport, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes, and remediation of contamination. These laws and regulations require us to obtain permits for our operations, including the discharge of air pollutants and wastewater. Although our management systems are designed to maintain compliance, we cannot assure you that we have been or will be at all times in complete compliance with such laws, regulations and permits. If we violate or fail to comply with any of them, a range of consequences could result, including fines, suspension of production, alteration of manufacturing processes, import/export restrictions, sales limitations, criminal and civil liabilities or other sanctions. We could also be held liable for any and all consequences arising out of exposure to hazardous materials used, stored, released, disposed of by us or located at, under or emanating from our facilities or other environmental or natural disastersresource damage.

Certain environmental laws, including the U.S. Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation and other business disruptions, which could harm our future revenueLiability Act of 1980, or the Superfund Act, impose strict, and financial conditionunder certain circumstances, joint and increase ourseveral liability on current and previous owners or operators of real property for the cost of removal or remediation of hazardous substances and impose liability for damages to natural resources. These laws often impose liability even if the owner or operator did not know of, or was not responsible for, the release of such hazardous substances. These environmental laws also assess liability on persons who arrange for hazardous substances to be sent to disposal or treatment facilities when such facilities are found to be contaminated. Such persons can be responsible for cleanup costs and expenses.

Our worldwide operationseven if they never owned or operated the contaminated facility. We have been named as a responsible party at three Superfund sites in Sunnyvale, California. Although we have not yet been, we could be subjectnamed a potentially responsible party at other Superfund or contaminated sites in the future. In addition, contamination that has not yet been identified could exist at our other facilities.

Environmental laws are complex, change frequently and have tended to natural disasters and other business disruptions, which could harm our future revenue and financial condition and increase our costs and expenses.become more stringent over time. For example, our corporate headquartersthe European Union (EU) and China are located near major earthquake fault linestwo among a growing number of jurisdictions that have enacted in Californiarecent years restrictions on the use of lead, among other chemicals, in electronic products. These regulations affect semiconductor packaging. There is a risk that the cost, quality and manufacturing facilities for Spansion Flash memoryyields of lead-free products may be less favorable compared to lead-based products or that the transition to lead-free products may produce sudden changes in demand, which may result in excess inventory. Other regulatory requirements potentially affecting our back-end manufacturing processes and the design and marketing of our products are located near major earthquake fault lines in Japan. Indevelopment throughout the eventworld. For example, the EU is considering market entry requirements for computers based on certain energy efficiency standards as well as additional limits. The currently proposed requirements could potentially be approved and implemented as early as the fourth quarter of a major earthquake, or other natural or manmade disaster we could experience business interruptions, destruction2011. If such requirements are implemented in the proposed time frame and to the proposed specification, there is the potential for certain of facilities and/or loss of life, all ofour microprocessor, chipset and GPU products, as incorporated in desktop and mobile PCs, being excluded from the EU market, which could materially adversely affect us. While we have budgeted for foreseeable expenditures associated with environmental health and safety requirements, we cannot assure you that future environmental legal requirements will not become more stringent or costly in the future. Therefore, we cannot assure you that our costs of complying with current and future environmental and health and safety laws, and our liabilities arising from past and future releases of, or exposure to, regulated materials will not have a material adverse effect on us.

Our business is subject to potential tax liabilities.

We are subject to income taxes in the United States, Canada and other foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes. In the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, we cannot assure you that the final determination of any tax audits and litigation will not be materially different from that which is reflected in historical income tax provisions and

accruals. Should additional taxes be assessed as a result of an audit or litigation, there could be a material adverse effect on our cash, income tax provision and net income in the period or periods for which that determination is made.

Risks Relatedrelated to the Notesnotes

If you do not exchange your notes pursuant to this exchange offer, you may never be able to sell your notes.

It may be difficult for you to sell notes that are not exchanged in the exchange offer. Those notes may not be offered or sold unless they are registered and there are exemptions from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

If you do not tender your private notes or if we do not accept some of your private notes, those notes will continue to be subject to the transfer and exchange restrictions in:

The restrictions on transfer of your private notes arise because we issued the private notes pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. In general, you may only offer or sell the private notes if they are registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or offered and sold pursuant to an exemption from such requirements. We do not intend to register the private notes under the Securities Act. To the extent private notes are tendered and accepted in the exchange offer, the trading market, if any, for the private notes would be adversely affected.

We have a substantial amount of indebtedness which could adversely affect our financial position and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations under the notes.

We currently have a substantial amount of indebtedness. As of December 26, 2004,March 27, 2010, we had consolidated debtDebt (see definition in the “Description of approximately $1.9 billion. In addition, we guaranteed approximately $227notes”) of $3.1 billion ($3.3 billion principal amount), which includes $448 million of obligations (not including our portion of accrued interest and expenses related to such guaranteed obligations) for which we and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are co-guarantors not reflected on our consolidated balance sheet.

Our substantial indebtedness may:

The notes are unsecured and effectively subordinated to our existing and future secured indebtedness.

The notes are unsecured obligations, ranking effectively junior in right of payment to all of our existing and future secured debt, includingdebt. Other than capital lease obligations underof our revolving credit facility. Assubsidiaries, as of December 26, 2004,March 27, 2010, we (excluding our subsidiaries) had no

secured indebtedness but up to $100 million available for future secured borrowings under our revolving credit facility. In addition, theindebtedness. The indenture governing the notes permits the incurrence of additional debt, some of which may be secured. In the event that we are declared bankrupt, become insolvent or are liquidated or reorganized, any secured indebtedness will be entitled to be paid in full to the extent of the assets securing such debt before any payment is made with respect to the notes. As a result, holders of the notes may receive less from our assets, ratably, than holders of our secured indebtedness.

The notes are structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities, including trade payables, of our subsidiaries.

We conduct a substantial portion of our operations, including our international operations, and our Flash memory business, through our subsidiaries. In the event of our bankruptcy or the bankruptcy of any of our subsidiaries, the holders of their liabilities, indebtedness and trades payables will generally be entitled to payment of their claim from the assets of the affected subsidiaries before those assets wereare made available for distribution to us. Even if we were a creditor of such a subsidiary, our claims would remain subordinate to any indebtedness of such subsidiary which is senior in right of payment to the indebtedness held by us. As a result, the claims of holders of the notes rank effectively junior to the claims of all of the creditors of our subsidiaries, including trade creditors and holders of debt guaranteed by oursuch subsidiaries. If any indebtedness of our subsidiaries were to be accelerated, we cannot assure you that the assets of thesuch subsidiaries remaining after payment of such indebtedness and other liabilities would be sufficient to repay our indebtedness in full, including the notes. As of December 26, 2004, no debt directly borrowed by AMD was guaranteed or secured by any of our subsidiaries. Our subsidiaries had approximately $557 million of their own indebtedness (excluding amounts payable to affiliated entities) and approximately $1.4 billion of other liabilities outstanding, including trade payables and deferred income tax liabilities. In addition, the indenture governing the notes permits, subject to certain limitations, certain of theseour subsidiaries to incur additional indebtedness and contains nodoes not contain any limitation on the amount of other liabilities, such as trade payables, that may be incurred by these subsidiaries.

Spansion LLC is not subject to the covenants contained in the indenture governing the notes and we are permitted to make certain loans and advances to Spansion LLC in addition to those already outstanding.

Under the terms of the indenture that governs the notes, Spansion LLC and its subsidiaries constitute “unrestricted subsidiaries.” The activities of Spansion LLCGLOBALFOUNDRIES and its subsidiaries are therefore not subject tosubsidiaries of AMD. Accordingly, the restrictive covenants or certain defaults in the indenture,assets and its resultscash flows of operations are not considered (except to the extent dividends are paid to us or to a restricted subsidiary) when determining our consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio under the covenant restricting our indebtedness or our consolidated net income under the covenant governing restricted payments. In addition, the indenture contains certain exceptions to the covenants generally applicable to unrestricted subsidiaries, including the fact that indebtedness of Spansion LLCGLOBALFOUNDRIES and its subsidiaries cancannot be recourserelied upon for repayment of the notes. In addition, our equity interest in GLOBALFOUNDRIES is structurally junior to usall indebtedness and our restricted subsidiaries and could cross-default to our debt and the debtother liabilities of our restricted subsidiaries. As of December 26, 2004, we had made loans to Spansion LLCGLOBALFOUNDRIES and its subsidiaries in an aggregate amount of approximately $276 million and had guaranteed indebtedness of Spansion LLC and its subsidiaries in an aggregate amount of approximately $190 million. We are permitted to make further loans and advances in accordance with the covenants restricting indebtedness and governing restricted payments contained in the indenture. This additional amount of permitted investments, together with the fact that Spansion LLC is not subject to any limitations on indebtedness under the indenture, may make it more difficult for us to fulfill our obligations under the notes.

subsidiaries.

We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantially more debt, including secured debt, in the future.

Subject to the restrictions in the agreements governing our existing indebtedness, weWe and our subsidiaries may incur significant additional debt, including secured debt, in the future. In particular, as of December 26, 2004, we and our subsidiaries had the following additional borrowings available:

Although the terms of these facilities contain, and the indenture governing the notes contains restrictions on the incurrence of additional debt, these restrictions are subject to a number of important exceptions, and debt incurred in compliance with these restrictions could be substantial. The additional debt that we and our subsidiaries expect to obtain in the future could intensify the risk that we may not be able to fulfill our obligations under the notes.

We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service our debt obligations, including our obligations under the notes.

Our ability to make payments on and to refinance our debt, including the notes, or our guarantees of other parties’ debts will depend on our financial and operating performance, which may fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter, and is subject to prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. We cannot assure you that we will continuebe able to generate sufficient cash flow or that we will be able to borrow funds in amounts sufficient to enable us to service our debt or to meet our working capital and capital expenditure requirements. If we are not able to generate sufficient cash flow from operations or to borrow sufficient funds to service our debt, due to borrowing base restrictions or otherwise, we may be required to sell assets or equity, reduce capital expenditures, refinance all or a portion of our existing debt

or obtain additional financing. We cannot assure you that we will be able to refinance our debt, sell assets or equity or borrow more funds on terms acceptable to us, if at all.

Changes in the financial and credit markets or in our credit ratings could adversely affect the market prices of the notes.

The future market prices of the notes will depend on a number of factors, including:

The condition of the financial and credit markets and prevailing interest rates have fluctuated in the past and are likely to fluctuate in the future. Fluctuations in these factors could have an adverse effect on the market prices of the notes. In addition, credit rating agencies continually revise their ratings for companies that they follow, including us. Credit ratings are not recommendations to purchase, hold or sell the notes. We cannot assure you that any credit rating agencies that rate the notes will maintain their ratings on the notes. A negative change in our rating could have an adverse effect on the market price of the notes.

Our debt instruments impose restrictions on us that may adversely affect our ability to operate our business.

The indenture governing the notes contains various covenants thatwhich limit our ability to:

In addition:

Our ability to satisfy the covenants,these financial ratios and tests of our debt instruments can be affected by events beyond our control. We cannot assure you that we will meet those requirements. A breach of any of these covenants, financial ratios or tests could result in a default under the applicable agreement.

In addition,The agreements governing our agreementsborrowing arrangements contain cross-default provisions whereby a default under one agreement would likely result in cross-defaultcross defaults under agreements covering other borrowings. For example, the occurrence of a default with respect to any indebtedness that results in acceleration of the maturity date or any failure to repay debt when due in an amount in excess of $50 million would cause a cross default under the indenture governing these notes. Similarly, a default with respect to any indebtedness in excess of $25 million would cause a cross-default under the indentures governing our 4.75%5.75% Convertible Senior Debentures due 2022 and 4.50% Senior Notes due 2007.2012, or the 5.75% Notes, and 6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2015, or the 6.00% Notes. The occurrence of a default under any of these borrowing arrangements would permit the applicable lenders or note holders to declare all amounts outstanding under those borrowing arrangements to be immediately due and payable and would permit the lenders to terminate all commitments to extend further credit.payable. If we were unable to repay those amounts, the lenders could proceed against any collateral granted to them to secure that indebtedness. We have granted a security interest in substantially all of our inventory and accounts receivable under our revolving credit facility, and in certain property, plant and equipment under the July 2003 Spansion Term Loan Agreement. If the lenders under any of the credit facilities or the note holders or the trusteestrustee under the indentures governing our 4.75% Debentures, 4.50%5.75% Notes and these notesor 6.00% Notes accelerate the repayment of borrowings, we cannot assure you that we will have sufficient assets to repay those borrowings and our other indebtedness.

In the event of a change of control, we may not be able to repurchase the notes as required by the indenture, which would result in a default under ourthe indenture.

Upon a change of control under the indenture, we are required to offer to repurchase all of the notes then outstanding at 101 percent101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, up to, but excluding, the repurchase date. Our secured revolving credit facility and the Fab 36 Loan AgreementsCertain of our existing debt agreements provide that certain change of control events will be a default under the respective agreement that will permit the lenders thereunder to accelerate the maturity of all borrowings thereunder and terminate commitments to lend thereunder. Moreover, the indentures

governing our 4.75% Debentures5.75% Notes and 4.50%6.00% Notes require us to offer to repurchase these securities upon certain change of control events. As of December 26, 2004,March 27, 2010, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the 4.75% Debenturesoutstanding 5.75% Notes and the 4.50%6.00% Notes was $701.5$2,271 million. Any of our future debt agreements may contain similar provisions. We cannot assure you that we will have the financial resources to repurchase your notes, particularly if that change of control event triggers a similar repurchase requirement for, or results in the acceleration of the 4.75% Debentures, the 4.50% Notesour outstanding notes or other indebtedness.

In addition, our secured revolving credit facility would prohibit us from repurchasing any of the notes if we were in default or if our net domestic cash (as defined therein) falls below $125 million. Our Fab 36 Loan Agreements would also prohibit us from repurchasing the notes if our group consolidated cash (as defined therein) falls below $500 million and if as a result of such repurchase we would not be able to satisfy the financial covenants therein. As of December 26, 2004, net domestic cash totaled $831 million and group consolidated cash was greater than $500 million. However, if we were to be subject to these covenants and unable to obtain a consent to the repurchase, we would remain prohibited from repurchasing the notes.

You cannot be sure that an active trading market will develop for the notes.

The exchange notes are a new issue of securities for which there is no active trading market. The initial purchaserspurchaser of the private notes havehas advised us that theyit presently intendintends to make a market in the exchange notes as permitted by applicable law. The initial purchasers arepurchaser is not obligated, however, to make a market in the exchange notes and any such market-making may be discontinued at any time at the sole discretion of the initial purchasers. If an active market is not developed or maintained, the market price and the liquidity of the notes may be adversely affected.purchaser. In addition, the liquidity of the trading market in the notes and the market prices quoted for the notes may be adversely affected by changes in the overall market for high-yield securities and by changes in our financial performance or prospects, or in the prospects of the companies in our industry. As a result, you cannot be sure that an active trading market will develop for the exchange notes.

Certain covenants contained in the indenture are not be applicable during any period in which the notes are rated investment grade.

The market priceindenture governing the notes provides that certain covenants will not apply to us during any period in which the notes are rated investment grade by both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s and no default has otherwise occurred and is continuing under the indenture. The covenants that would be suspended include, among others, limitations on and our restricted subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends, incur indebtedness, sell certain assets and enter into certain other transactions. Any actions that we take while these covenants are not in force will be permitted even if the notes are subsequently downgraded below investment grade and such covenants are subsequently reinstated. There can be no assurance that the notes will ever be rated investment grade, or that if they are rated investment grade, the notes will maintain such ratings. See “Description of the notes—Certain covenants—Covenant suspension.”

The notes were issued with original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

The notes were issued with original issue discount (“OID”) for United States federal income tax purposes. U.S. Holders (as defined in “Material U.S. federal income tax considerations”) will generally be required to include any OID in gross income (as ordinary income) on a constant yield basis for United States federal income tax purposes in advance of the receipt of cash payments to which such income is attributable and regardless of such U.S. Holders’ method of tax accounting. For more information, see “Material U.S. federal income tax considerations.”

If we file a bankruptcy petition, or if a bankruptcy petition is filed against us, you may receive a lesser amount for your claim under the notes than you would have been entitled to receive under the indenture governing the notes.

If we file a bankruptcy petition under the United States Bankruptcy Code after the issuance of the notes, or if such a bankruptcy petition is filed against us, your claim against us for the principal amount of your notes may also be significantly affected by wide fluctuations in responselimited to an amount equal to:

Any original issue discount that was not amortized as of the date of any bankruptcy filing would constitute unmatured interest. Accordingly, under these circumstances, you may receive a varietylesser amount than you would have been entitled to receive under the terms of factors, including those described in this “Risk Factors” section.the indenture governing the notes, even if sufficient funds are available.

THE EXCHANGE OFFERThe exchange offer

Purpose of the Exchange Offerexchange offer

We issued $600,000,000$500 million aggregate principal amount of the private notes on October 29, 2004November 30, 2009 to Citigroup Global MarketsJ.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston and Citadel Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, the initial purchasers, pursuant to a purchase agreement. The initial purchasers subsequently sold the private notes to “qualified institutional buyers,” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act, pursuant toin reliance on Rule 144A, and outside the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act. As a condition to the sale of the private notes, we entered into a registration rights agreement with the initial purchasers on October 29, 2004.November 30, 2009. Pursuant to the registration rights agreement, we agreed that we would:

1. file an exchange offer registration statement with the SEC on or prior to January 28, 2005;

2. use our commercially reasonable efforts to have the exchange offer registration statement declared effective by the SEC on or prior to May 2, 2005;

3. keep the exchange offer open for a period of not less than the minimum period required under applicable law, but in no event for less than 30 days; and

4. use our commercially reasonable efforts to consummate the exchange offer on or before June 14, 2005.

Upon the effectiveness of the exchange offer registration statement, we will offer the exchange notes in exchange for the private notes. A copy of the registration rights agreement is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

Resale of the Exchange Notesexchange notes

Based upon an interpretation by the staff of the SEC contained in no-action letters issued to third parties, we believe that you may exchange private notes for exchange notes in the ordinary course of business. For further information on the SEC’s position, seeExxon Capital Holdings Corporation, available May 13, 1988,Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, available June 5, 1991 andShermanShearman & Sterling, available July 2, 1993, and other interpretive letters to similar effect. You will be allowed to resell exchange notes to the public without further registration under the Securities Act and without delivering to purchasers of the exchange notes a prospectus that satisfies the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act so long as you do not participate, do not intend to participate, and have no arrangement with any person to participate, in a distribution of the exchange notes. However, the foregoing does not apply to you if you are: a broker-dealer who purchased the exchange notes directly from us to resell pursuant to Rule 144A or any other available exemption under the Securities Act; or you are an “affiliate” of ours within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

In addition, if you are a broker-dealer, or you acquire exchange notes in the exchange offer for the purpose of distributing or participating in the distribution of the exchange notes, you cannot rely on the position of the staff of the SEC contained in the no-action letters mentioned above and must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction, unless an exemption from registration is otherwise available.

Each broker-dealer that receives exchange notes for its own account in exchange for private notes, which the broker-dealer acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of the exchange notes. The letter of transmittal statesfor use in connection with any such resale will state that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. A broker-dealer may use this prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, in connection with resales of exchange notes received in exchange for private notes which the broker-dealer acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities. We have agreed that, starting on the expiration date and ending on the close of business 180 days after the expiration date, we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution.”

Terms of the Exchange Offerexchange offer

Upon the terms and subject to the conditions described in this prospectus, and in the letter of transmittal, we will accept any and all private notes validly tendered and not withdrawn before the expiration date. We will issue $1,000 principal amount of exchange notes in exchange for each $1,000 principal amount of outstanding private notes surrendered pursuant to the exchange offer. You may tender private notes only in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000.

The form and terms of the exchange notes are the same as the form and terms of the private notes except that:

The exchange notes will evidence the same debt as the private notes and will be issued under the same indenture, so the exchange notes and the private notes will be treated as a single class of debt securities under the indenture.

As of the date of this prospectus, $600,000,000$500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the private notes areis outstanding and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company. Only registered holders of the private notes, or their legal representative or attorney-in-fact, as reflected on the records of the trustee under the indenture, may participate in the exchange offer. We will not set a fixed record date for determining registered holders of the private notes entitled to participate in the exchange offer.

You do not have any appraisal or dissenters’ rights under the indenture in connection with the exchange offer. We intend to conduct the exchange offer in accordance with the provisions of the registration rights agreement and the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC.

We will be deemed to have accepted validly tendered private notes when, as and if we had given oral or written notice of acceptance to the exchange agent.Exchange Agent. The exchange agentExchange Agent will act as your agent for the purposes of receiving the exchange notes from us.

If you tender private notes in the exchange offer you will not be required to pay brokerage commissions or fees or subject to the instructions in the letter of transmittal, transfer taxes with respect to the exchange of private notes pursuant to the exchange offer. We will pay all charges and expenses, other than the applicable taxes described below under “—Fees and expenses,” in connection with the exchange offer.

Expiration Date;date; Extensions; Amendments

The expiration dateterm “expiration date” will mean 5:00 p.m., New York City time on                 , 2005,2010, unless we, in our sole discretion, extend the exchange offer, in which case the expiration dateterm “expiration date” will mean the latest date and time to which we extend the exchange offer.

To extend the exchange offer, we will:

each before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next business day after the previously scheduled expiration date. The notice of extension will disclose the aggregate principal amount of the private notes that have been tendered as of the date of such notice.

We reserve the right, in our reasonable discretion:

in each case by giving oral or written notice of the delay, extension or termination to the exchange agent.