... 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
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 decided to drop its “Smarter Choice” tagline in exchange for “The
future is fusion” in an effort to highlight the combination of its
microprocessor and graphics technologies. Fusion? Isn’
Thursday, September 18, 2008 00:00
...cores fashioned into one package. While some detractors say this technology is less elegant than AMD ’s monolithic processors, it has allowed Intel to get to market faster. In the end most ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008 15:39
...th the addition of virtualization hardware into the x86 instruction set via technology extensions from AMD and Intel, such as Pacifica and Vanderpool respectively. While not identical in impleme...
Monday, September 08, 2008 11:40
AMD has announced that its Quad-Core Opteron processors are been adopted for Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) latest ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade. Businesses requiring the flexibility to support
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 09:14
Analyst Opinion - This week I have been spending some time with AMD
listening to an update of their workstation and server roadmap. AMD ’s
message: We are healthy and we are executing on
Thursday, August 14, 2008 00:35
...enue opportunity of six network computers. As a side note, Dukker said that Ncomputing is working with AMD to deploy host PCs. He told us that AMD concluded that there is no possible to market a PC wi...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 01:13
...dcrest and quad-core Clovertown processors, both of which reclaimed server processor market share from AMD ’s dual-core Opteron CPU, are being replaced with the 45 nm 5400-series chips with Harpertown ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:24
...o say that Barcelona has not turned out the CPU core many
hoped it would be and lots of people inside AMD would rather forget
about this evolutionary step and quickly move on to the next
architectu...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 16:11
...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
...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
..., 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
...are the same hardware through software emulation of hardware abilities. Intel’s Core 2 CPUs, and AMD ’s Athlon X2 CPUs, both contain special hardware instructions which accelerate these fea...
Thursday, December 13, 2007 21:38
... installed OS on the hard drive. HyperSpace version 1.0 has been designed to work with both Intel and AMD virtualization technology hardware. It could arrive in notebooks as soon as 6 to 9 mont...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 21:13
... Francisco. Sun Microsystems, a long proponent of open-source, has re-doubled its efforts. AMD has announced similiarly. And several components of virtualization are being open-sourc...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 15:19
...new revision began sampling on October 10 with a mandatory acceptance required by November 21. Intel, AMD and all chip makers regularly roll out new stepping changes. These often correct minor ...
Friday, October 19, 2007 07:14
...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
...e quad-core Nehalems that were in use. Intel representatives made sure that they weren't using the AMD term “native quad-core” when describing Nehalem. Instead, they referred to it as ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 02:10
Analyst Opinion – We have covered the launch of AMD 's quad-core Opteron CPU extensively and talked about the good and the bad of the product introduction. What we haven't talked about a
Thursday, September 13, 2007 14:24
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
Five days ahead of the launch of AMD 's Barcelona processor, Intel today announced its 65 nm Xeon 7300/7200 series, the latest and final product based on the company's Core microarchitecture.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 13:51
...last piece of its Core micro-architecture strategy. It's a critical product that is designed to attack AMD in a market that is still dominated by the green team. But Intel believes that is going to ch...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 13:43
...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
Barcelona is AMD 's latest core redesign with internal changes to achieve greater compute parity with Intel's Core 2 architecture. London (England) - The Inquirer has posted a potential previe
Monday, August 27, 2007 12:13
...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
If you have been waiting for some news on how AMD will counter Intel in the next one, two years, then the Technology Analyst Day provided many answers. Not a lot of finished products, but AMD outline
Thursday, July 26, 2007 23:06
There are very few options for AMD other than moving into the offense these days: The company’s chief technology officer today revealed at a meeting with analysts more details about the first F
Thursday, July 26, 2007 13:51
AMD has come up with a new technology that will allow the company to install 16 memory modules per CPU socket – instead of only 8 that are used with Opteron CPUs today. Sunnyvale (CA) –
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 23:21
...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
AMD is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of its Operating System Research Center (OSRC) in Dresden, Germany. The unit has been put in place to bridge real gaps seen between the software and hardware
Friday, June 08, 2007 17:06
Following AMD 's recent introduction of its I/O virtualization technology specification revision 1.2 to provide high throughput and scalability for improved overall system efficiency, reliability a
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 08:54
AMD is going through challenging times these days, with enormous losses on the one side and a new quad-core CPU that needs to re-establish the firm’s competitiveness with Intel on the other. We
Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:06
...ar almost unnecessary. Intel still holds the unquestioned lead in the mobile market, clearly outpacing AMD ’s Turion 64 X2 processor both in performance and shipments. However, the original Core ...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:00
...er virtualization ," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. In the race between AMD and Intel, Intel showed first signs of competitive success as the AMD 's overall market sh...
Friday, February 23, 2007 17:56
AMD unwrapped a few more details about its upcoming quad-core server and workstation processor "Barcelona" at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). San Francisco (CA) -
Sunday, February 11, 2007 14:00
Last week, we had a closer look at AMD 's plans how to close the gap to Intel with near- and mid-term products. This week, we will focus on Intel's new products for 2007 as well as the remainder of th
Monday, November 06, 2006 20:55
...raction in the enterprise field. Solutions, including hardware-based foundations such as Intel's VT or AMD -V, as well as a range of software technologies are beginning to be more visible as computer s...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 19:59
... $16,000: Core 2 Duo computers flood the Net The long road to Conroe Tom's Hardware: Core 2 Duo smokes AMD 's Athlon 64 X2 Intel to launch Merom, Conroe on Thursday Technology Background: Will Intel's ...
Friday, September 08, 2006 18:58
Following AMD 's introduction of Socket F- and AM2-based Opteron processors, Sun has announced updated version of its x86 server and workstation products. Santa Clara (CA) - Following AMD 's introdu
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 19:51
AMD today unveiled its first answer to Intel's Core micro architecture. An updated version of the processor that is driving the firm's revenue growth and market share gains claims to not only close t
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 04:00
AMD today officially confirmed that it will be announcing its-next generation Opteron workstation and server processor next Tuesday. AMD today officially confirmed that it will be announcing its-nex
Thursday, August 10, 2006 17:31
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduc
Monday, June 26, 2006 15:00
Yesterday's announcement of AMD 's opening up of its AMD 64 HyperTransport CPU connection for OEM development, creates the possibility for manufacturers to remake their hardware not as expansion cards,
Friday, June 02, 2006 17:23
...echnologies today announced top-to-bottom chipset solutions supporting the transition to socket AM2 by AMD . ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 14:54
... 2006 conference two weeks ago and a presentation in San Francisco behind closed doors in early March, AMD today unveiled its upcoming processor with virtualization technology to visitors of the Linux...
Monday, April 03, 2006 19:11
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