'We will find some money for the trainers and for SUCs that's not a problem,' he said. 'All we (CICT) have to do is to make sure all courses are relevant. The long term goal is to train faculty from various SUCs so that they themselves can offer animation courses.'

Sonny Sy, AMD channel sales manager in the Philippines, said through the DMAD laboratory, AMD hopes to expose its technology not only to local IT practitioners but to aspiring IT professionals as well, simultaneously contributing to the preparedness of the local IT industry in the global IT market.

'Specifically, we want them (local IT practitioners) to experience first hand what AMD 64 architecture is all about, because it is us who defined the 64 bit extension to the X86 architecture, which the competitor only followed,' he claimed. 'This is the first time in history because before it is AMD who follows what the competitor does.'