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
...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
Overview - The note of AMD ’s CEO Dirk Meyer that AMD is in the midst of its most significant transition in its history prompted us to take a closer look at AMD ’s past to get a better idea of th
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35
Analyst Opinion - AMD was in significant trouble: Up against a vastly
larger and better funded competitor, the company was increasingly
outmatched in recent months. This is becaus
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 07:41
AMD is completing the rollout of its first-generation 4000-series of
GPUs with two new entry-level offerings that aim at the growing group
of computer users who are upgrading their integrated
Monday, September 29, 2008 23:03
AMD is ready to launch its second assault at Nvidia’s performance
leadership in the graphics industry within three weeks. This time AMD
goes after Nvidia’s flagship cards GTX 260 and GTX 280
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 00:01
AMD introduced its 790GX chipset and refreshed the 790FX today. Reviews
of 790GX motherboards have been published by the usual suspects but
there is one trend that especially has caught our i
Thursday, August 07, 2008 00:07
...r. Don’t get too excited about those three cores – it is a chip that can’t be compared to any Intel or AMD CPU, as it was originally developed to run devices such high-end navigation systems in cars. ...
Monday, July 21, 2008 00:01
...on following this controversy was received as being rather doubtful. In the most case of accusations, AMD claims that Nvidia has been fiddling with the 3DMark Vantage benchmark. Just couple of hours ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 16:02
If everything goes according to plan, we will see AMD ’s new Radeon GPU
launch this week. But there is more news to this announcement and we
are thinking about one special item you are unlikel
Monday, June 23, 2008 00:01
AMD today partially lifted an embargo that prevented hardware review sites from publishing reviews of its upcoming HD 4850 GPU. Despite previous confusion, it is now confirmed that the GPU will com
Thursday, June 19, 2008 14:03
...to put a SSD array directly onto a Tesla GPGPU card and eliminate the need for a motherboard and Intel/AMD CPUs. Indeed, applications of this "jack of all trades" chip with a ridiculously small TDP ca...
Monday, June 02, 2008 04:00
...lar events have happened in the past and were not really accepted, but somehow tolerated. For example, AMD used to hold an "anti-IDF" event just a few blocks away in a hotel room during every Intel De...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:14
...he options available. TG Daily: From your perspective, what is the difference between Skulltrail and AMD ’s QuadFX? Smith: I think QuadFX suffered from multiple flaws. QuadFX seemed rushed and half-b...
Monday, May 05, 2008 00:12
This morning we received delicate details about AMD ’s answer to Intel’s
Montevina design from our moles in Taiwan. The information we received
could get you concerned about the new mobile pro
Thursday, April 24, 2008 14:01
...ell, wee have noticed that some chipsets are getting a GeForce tag instead of nForce (GeForce 8200 for AMD , CN+GeForce platform for VIA). Another idea could be that Tegra will be Nvidia’s application ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:20
Appro said it has started with the installation of a new AMD Barcelona
B3-based supercomputer at the Renault F1 HQ in Enstone. Appro won the
contract in early March, just before the new racin
Friday, April 11, 2008 11:10
...nchmark as there aren’t many results for common processors available. The organization, however, lists AMD ’s 6 watt 1 GHz Geode processor with a score of 30.2 as well as Transmeta’s discontinued 1 GHz...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
...l's joke we found came from Techware Labs, which created a press release that Intel has acquired AMD . Really? That's the most clever thing you can come up with? A big yawn goes ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:36
...s manufacturing giant has produced semiconductors for all the major players in the industry, including AMD , Intel, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nvidia, Sony, Sun Microsystems and many more. But with the grow...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:59
...at are your thoughts on the future of the PC as a gaming platform? Is scalability the future – we hear AMD talking about Spider and Nvidia is selling Triple SLI that will keep us upgrading over the ne...
Monday, March 10, 2008 00:28
...f that explores the opportunity of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integra...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 18:29
...ading into emerging markets to reach consumers with little money to spend. The overall idea isn’t new, AMD has been in this market for some time with its Geode CPUs, Via has its C7-M chips and ARM has...
Sunday, March 02, 2008 20:14
TG Daily On The Road – Last week had an opportunity to visit AMD ’s former ATI headquarter outside Toronto to get some information on new products we aren’t allowed to talk about just yet. What we ca
Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:03
...ainly haven't been easy for the green team from Sunnyvale. Lately, we have seen persistent rumors that AMD has become an acquisition target, leading us to look a bit closer into what's really going on...
Thursday, February 14, 2008 15:49
...his HD opinion battle than we’d prefer to. Just as is the case with Apple-Windows PC, Nvidia-ATI/AMD or Intel/AMD , one day you are being accused of being bought by Intel and the next day by AMD ....
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30
... new products consist of the M1000e blade enclosure as well as M600 Intel-based blades as well as M605 AMD -based blades. The 1000e is a 10U rack, capable of holding 16 blades. According to Dell the se...
Monday, January 21, 2008 12:12
..., a quick read about the Doh! moments of science. Top Ten predictions for 2008 #10 - A new boss for AMD , and possibly a buyer. #9 - The 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA web goes free. #8 - Boredom with green computi...
Friday, December 28, 2007 19:10
A study commissioned by AMD suggests that energy demand for new servers will grow faster in Asia-Pacific and Western Europe than in the U.S. over the next three years. Sunnyvale (CA) – A study
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 00:01
...y with limited opportunity for growth in an environment that is largely dominated by Intel’s and AMD ’s x86 processors. Sun hopes that free and complete access to the technological details ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:58
...ress release will be free, however it will be a significantly slimmed down version. According to AMD , a close partner to Microsoft on their compiler development, Visual Studio typically goes out...
Friday, November 30, 2007 19:13
There has been a lot of chatter about what AMD has been constructing over the past few months. You have probably even already seen the specifications of the new series. Today is the day we are allowe
Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:20
AMD has unveiled a new supercomputing-targeted stream processor card that not only is the first of its kind to deliver double-precision capability, but also is tied to new low-level and high-level SD
Thursday, November 08, 2007 09:45
...ses. The Green Grid hopes to establish an industry standard. Its members include employees from AMD , Microsoft, Dell, Rackable Systems, APC, HP, Sun, IBM, Intel, Spraycool, VMware and more.&nbs...
Friday, October 26, 2007 11:31
...hat Barcelona may see 3.0 GHz early next year, if not by the end of this year. The reason? AMD is moving to its B2 stepping which, according to a few websites, may resolve many of the spee...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:09
...l in fact come true, if the company's direction is right, if it is able to keep its advantage over AMD or if it has become too cocky and will provide its rival with an opportunity to catch up and ...
Friday, September 21, 2007 13:18
On September 10, AMD held its biggest ever launch event for Barcelona at The Presidio in San Francisco at 6:30pm PDT. On hand for the 1.5 hour event were several top executives and partners to AMD , a
Monday, September 10, 2007 23:52
AMD 's website has posted some benchmark numbers for Barcelona. Does the picture they paint stand up to what the real-world is seeing? Indianapolis (IN) - If you visit AMD 's website and look a
Monday, September 10, 2007 12:32
Santa Clara (CA) - Early this morning, AMD unveiled their gaming website. Decked out in ATI red, it's targeted at the gaming enthusiasts and die-hards in the hopes of luring them in for some
Friday, September 07, 2007 15:26
...ctober 1. Similar to Dell's XPS, the Blackbird can be configured with high-end hardware, including AMD (X2 6000+) or Intel processors (Core 2 Duo 6750 – Core 2 Extreme QX6850), two graphics ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 19:00
...er what they might be, Intel introduces a new ability in microprocessor design – similar to what AMD has described for its upcoming Fusion processor. For example, Bautista told us that GPU logic...
Saturday, September 01, 2007 00:52
...us. The reality here is that we currently have two disparate technologies moving forward in x86 space, AMD -V and Intel VT. These technologies do the same basic thing, but they are not compatib...
Friday, August 10, 2007 14:45
... You may have heard of virtualization before. Intel has been talking about it for more than two years, AMD is following its rival. But even if you are deeply involved in Enterprise architecture, an en...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:50
...age, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba Apple, Intel, LG, National Semiconductor, Samsung, Silicon Image Agilent, AMD , Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Molex, NVIDIA, Philips, Samsung, several others...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 16:50
...through 2008. Other versions should be nearly identical. I have installed both the x86 and AMD 64 versions and they're identical for installation. The only problem I encountered was tha...
Thursday, July 19, 2007 02:00
... “soft touch finish”. On the technology side, the notebooks can be configured with AMD Turion X2 CPUs (available from $750) or Core 2 Duo processors (from $850), up to 250 GB hard ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 01:00
...ovide additional floating point capability, have been discussed for some time. Most recently, ATI (now AMD ) released its stream processor card and Nvidia is leveraging its GeForce 8 to make its graphi...
Monday, June 18, 2007 00:01
Perhaps AMD and Intel should not have abandoned the Gigahertz-race and bunsen-burner processors after all: Scientists from the University of Utah today said that they can convert waste heat into soun
Monday, June 04, 2007 17:14
...ecurity chip and a Computrace software agent in BIOS. $850 more will buy a T7300 (2.0 GHz) processor, AMD ’s X2300 graphics chip with 512 MB memory, and a 120 GB hard drive. Battery running time...
Monday, June 04, 2007 13:49
...nts Sandisk announces 64 GB SSD PNY to launch 256 GB SSDs this year AMD announces low power X2 processors, DTX spec Corsair takes DDR3 memory to 2 GHz Co...
Monday, June 04, 2007 00:01
Overclocking:
Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 