Indianapolis (IN) - In 2006, AMD purchased ATI for approximately $5.4 billion. Today, their market capitalization rests at $1.1 billion. AMD 's stock price is at its lowest point in history, currently
Friday, November 21, 2008 12:51
...heduled to vote on whether to transfer a $1.2 billion package of state incentives from Sunnyvale-based AMD to The Foundry Co., a joint venture between AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Co., which...
Friday, November 21, 2008 10:32
...hit worst by what seems to be a perfect storm. Compared to their 12-month highs, Nvidia has lost 83%, AMD 82% and Intel 55%. 19 of the 23 companies in our list have lost at least 50% in market capita...
Thursday, November 20, 2008 00:01
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD
in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora.
The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 16:45
AMD has recently changed its CPU numbering scheme plans from five digits number to only three digits, similar to that of Intel's Core i7 CPUs, according to sources at motherboard makers. AMD 's up
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:39
...necessary to get from here to there (not just Sandy Bridge or Larrabee, but far beyond).
Nothing AMD has today competes with Intel's highest end offering in any measurable way, at least not in t...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 07:49
...est CPU money
can buy today, albeit not the cheapest, and expands Intel's already
sizeable lead over AMD . Santa Clara (CA) – Following a first wave of reviews of the Core i7 processor, still mainly ...
Monday, November 17, 2008 16:58
...e #8 would've been #1. And in 2000, the #500 computer today would've 255% faster than the #1 computer. AMD processors can be found in the #1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 slots. Intel comes in only at #3 in t...
Monday, November 17, 2008 10:48
...hich make virtually all the microchip processors for computers, rose along with the broader market and AMD acting Chief Financial Officer Robert Rivet called the economic downturn "a storm that will p...
Friday, November 14, 2008 11:34
With AMD making gains in the discrete graphics card market – rising to around 40% in third-quarter 2008 according to a recent report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) – Nvidia is planning to cut it
Friday, November 14, 2008 09:14
AMD told analysts yesterday that Phenom II X4 would launch at CES 2009 in January. This Shanghai-equivalent desktop product of the Deneb core, will serve as a launching platform for AMD 's new industr
Friday, November 14, 2008 06:10
Opinion – AMD ’s 2008 Financial Analyst Day, held yesterday, saw a much
more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate,
there is a fantastic graphics chip lineup, a new
Friday, November 14, 2008 00:11
In a rather unexpected announcement, AMD today said that it shelved the
development of its 2010 Fusion with 45 nm Shrike core and decided to
introduce the Fusion concept with the 2011 Llano C
Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:32
Save During its 2008 Financial Analyst Day, AMD chief executive officer Dirk Meyer confirmed that 32 nm chip designs are being “finalized” and prepared for a 2010 introduction. Meyer did not
Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:57
... went
from a Weapon of Mass Destruction to Weapon of Self Destruction and
came close to knocking out AMD for good.
Analyst Opinion - Barcelona, which had been positioned as the product that woul...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 09:10
AMD unveiled a new stream processor card and announced a new stream
software development kit as well as a new Catalyst driver update that
promises showcase the floating point horsepower that
Thursday, November 13, 2008 07:00
...% sequentially, “would be the worst QoQ change since Q1 2006 [when Intel was exposed to the success of AMD ’s processors] and the second worst since Q1 2001 [when the dotcom bubble began to burst].” A...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 00:33
Analyst Opinion - A lot hinges on Shanghai, AMD 's replacement for
Barcelona. It is the first major announcement since AMD decided to go
fabless and the first real indicator of whether the company
Thursday, November 13, 2008 00:02
The introduction of AMD ’s quad-core Opteron processor with the 45 nm
Shanghai core may be five months late, but the CPU builds on hopes of
an AMD that has recovered from a disastrous TLB bug
Thursday, November 13, 2008 00:01
AMD ’s board of directors approved a salary increase for its chief financial officer Bob Rivet, who recently also assumed the role of chief operating officer at the company. Rivet’s base salary will
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 19:39
...2.4
Nvidia
-80%
4.0
Sandisk
-80%
1.7
AMD
-80%
1.7
Motorola
-77%
9.0
RIM
-71%...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 17:23
AMD said it laid off 500 employees, in its second round of job cuts this year. The staff has been cut globally, across different departments, levels of employment and facility locations. The affecte
Thursday, November 06, 2008 13:43
Palit today announced a new flagship for its Radeon graphics card
series. Based on AMD ’s dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 design, the
graphics card comes with two massive fans and two heat pipe
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 17:15
...Obama $1,434,719 while John McCain received only $267,041. Only three companies in the ranking - AMD , Robert Half International and Sanmina-SCI – gave more to the Republican candidate than to th...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:47
Research engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method to measure how varying degrees of strain affect electronic structures in silicon, which in turn affect
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:54
... M17 notebook PC. The Alienware M17 is the world's first notebook from a major manufacturer to include AMD 's ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology with Microsoft Direct X 10.1 support, according to the ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:02
AMD is planning to launch two 45nm quad-core desktop CPUs (Deneb) – the Phenom X4 20550 and 20350 for socket AM2+ systems with core frequencies of 3GHz and 2.8GHz, respectively in November this
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:00
... GB/s copy throughput with an amazingly low 34.3ns latency (compared to 68.8ns on Core 2 and 56.3ns on AMD 's Phenom X4). This advantage is clearly evident on memory benchmarks which absolutely set a n...
Monday, November 03, 2008 09:51
...cially in the mobile segment. IDC estimates that Intel earned 87.4% share, a gain of 0.8 points, while AMD finished with 11.5%, a loss of 1.1 points. VIA posted 1.2%, a gain of 0.3 points. The green...
Monday, November 03, 2008 01:05
AMD does not have a dedicated chip that would be able to aim at all the
market segments addressed by Intel’s Atom processor. Offering an aging
entry-level processor to compete in the "Ultra-V
Friday, October 31, 2008 19:48
Both Intel and AMD were able to gain overall processor market share in the third quarter of this year, according to iSuppli. In terms of sales volume, Intel held a 80.4% share, up from 80.1% in Q2,
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 15:53
...d spending some money on a new graphics card before then, could see additional value in a DX10.1 card. AMD already offers a wide range of DX10.1 card and Nvidia is expected to roll out such cards late...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 14:13
AMD ’s latest graphics chip series looked good on paper and good in
benchmarks and it appears that it is returning good sales numbers as
well. Nvidia is still dominating the list of the ten be
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 15:10
...nst it
The authors indicate that existing exploit counter-measures, such as the "No Execute" bit in AMD and Intel which typically prevents altered memory regions from being used as program instruct...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 09:16
AMD has not yet found an effective way to slow its market share decline
in the x86 CPU market. According to new market estimates, AMD currently
has a 17.7% share, while Intel is at 81.2%. Chi
Friday, October 24, 2008 19:41
AMD today promoted its executive vice president and chief financial officer Bob Rivet, 54, to the position of chief operating officer. Emilio Ghilardi, senior vice president and general manager of s
Thursday, October 23, 2008 16:58
AMD announced today a sub-$150 ATI Radeon HD 4830 card positioned against Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT. It has 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 memory, full support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFire, and claims better gami
Thursday, October 23, 2008 08:45
...his shaky month. Especially chip companies were once again in the crosshairs of traders with Nvidia, AMD , Seagate and Intel showing visible declines. Microsoft also was hit with a substantial declin...
Thursday, October 23, 2008 00:09
...reach very far – especially when Sun has a current market cap of $3.6 billion, Nvidia $4.0 billion and AMD $2.4 billion. Adobe could also be an enticing idea at $14.7 billion. ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 00:04
...vilion Verde Special Edition a6645f and HP Pavilion Phoenix Special Edition a6655f desktop PCs include AMD dual-core and quad-core processors and come packaged in 100% recyclable packaging. According ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 00:16
The co-founder of chip manufacturing company AMD , who was responsible for building the company’s first sales team, died on Wednesday in Cupertino California at the age of 79. Mr. Turney’s Brother G
Monday, October 20, 2008 11:31
...nleash all those giga- and teraflops locked up in GPUs and provide them for general-purpose computing. AMD and Nvidia are also moving toward OpenCL, while Nvidia has still a focus on its own CUDA tech...
Monday, October 20, 2008 10:02
...
Gateway’s 8 GB PC is part of the multimedia-focused LX-series: The LX6200-01 includes AMD ’s Phenom X4 9500 quad-core CPU, a 750 GB hard drive, a DVD burner and Windows Vista Premium 6...
Monday, October 20, 2008 00:01
...rd with at least 256 MB will accelerate its most recent software. Both Nvidia and AMD are waiting for compelling GPGPU applications, software than takes advantage of their GPU arc...
Friday, October 17, 2008 09:23
AMD has made substantial progress to get back in to the black. The company reported a net loss of $67 million on revenue of $1.78 billion for Q3 2008. The company reported a loss of $1.2 billion
Thursday, October 16, 2008 16:17
...g Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to delay the planned launch of a product line incorporating an AMD -based CPU. Thirdly, in a subsequent period, Intel has provided substantial rebates to that sa...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 17:49
...le
growing demand for notebook CPUs is the reason why there is still
growth in the processor market. AMD and Intel have to adjust to a
changing purchase behavior as consumers are looking for cheape...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 00:01
...ory
and a Blu-ray drive. Also, Acer’s Emachines unit is first out the gate
with a PC that integrates AMD ’s answer to Intel’s Atom CPU. San Jose (CA) – Prices for computer memory and mainstream proce...
Monday, October 13, 2008 13:57
AMD said it was informed by the U.S. Department of Justice that an
investigation into ATI Technologies’ pricing and marketing practices in
the sale of graphics processing units has been close
Monday, October 13, 2008 11:58
...s interesting buying Sun, Apple
could scoop the company up for pocket change. Intel could get rid of
AMD for even less and even AMD could use its recent cash infusion to
take a shot at Nvidia. But ...
Thursday, October 09, 2008 20:39
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Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 