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1. Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' release on April 23

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... release, which is supported through 2010. The OS is available in 32-bit x86 (i386), 64-bit x86 (AMD64) and armel ixp4xx (for ARM-based netbooks and MIDs). New features include: 1) Gnome 2.26 desktop ...

2. IBM ships 50 millionth 90nm Wii CPU

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Not to be outdone by AMD's recent achievement of shipping 50 million Wii GPUs (and GPUs for Xbox as well), IBM has announced that their CPUs have now powered all 50 million Wiis built to date. East Fishkill ...

3. AMD global notebook market share might drop below 10% next year due to netbooks

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   As Intel Atom processor shipments continue to increase, while AMD has yet to come up with an official netbook platform of its own, AMD's share of the global notebook market might drop from the current ...

4. AMD has an ace up its sleeve

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors. Six “hidden pins” on the processors ...

5. F1 Supercomputing championship: Toyota ditches Itanium CPUs

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... Toyota got rid of its Itanium 2 system and replaced it with an AMD Opteron supercomputer. Zagreb (Croatia) - Hot on the heels of our F1 Supercomputing story, we received an email from Franklin Dallmann, ...

6. Another AMD executive gets the boot

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     The next executive to leave AMD is Stephen DiFranco, the company’s corporate vice president of consumer sales and marketing. While there was no official announcement of DiFranco’s departure, the ...

7. AMD expected to cut 510-850 jobs this Thursday

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     AMD is set to send out a first round of pink slips to, as we hear, 510 to 850 people, or 3 to 5% of its workforce this Thursday. Employees in the firm’s secondary headquarter in Austin will be ...

8. The visual computing clash: Nvidia CEO opens a can of whoop-ass for Intel

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... advantage and 27x the price/performance ratio". Even if Intel was able to deliver a 10-fold performance increase, the company would still not be able to reach catch up with Nvidia and AMD in the discrete ...

9. G.Skill launches energy-efficient 16GB DDR2-800 and 2GB DDR3-1800 kits

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... (or lower), or booting with only 8 GB.   G.Skil said that the memory is guaranteed to work on motherboards based on Intel P35, X38 and X48 chipsets and with the majority of AMD chipsets for the AM2 ...

10. AMD launches 7 series IGP chipsets in China

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    AMD launched three IGP chipsets in China on January 23, including the AMD 740G chipset with ATI Radeon 2100 graphics (RS740), AMD 780V chipset with ATI Radeon 3100 graphics (RS780C) and AMD 780G chipset ...

11. Freescale taps AMD's mobile graphics

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Freescale Semiconductor has licensed for use with its cellphone chips the 2D and 3D graphics technology of the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices. Freescale will incorporate AMD's OpenGL ES 2.0 ...

12. 43% of Intel’s profits a result of monopoly, AMD claims

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    A study commissioned by AMD found that virtually half of Intel’s profits are “extractions” from the blue team’s monopoly in the microprocessor market. Sunnyvale (CA) – A ...

13. Update 1: AMD gets more aggressive, announces next-gen CPU cores

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    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 Fusion ...

14. AMD to debut Barcelona on September 10 – report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    According to a report published by the Inquirer, AMD will be introducing its first quad-core processor on September 10. Chicago (IL) – According to a report published by the Inquirer, AMD will ...

15. AMD releases 9 watt Sempron processor

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    AMD announced a new version of its Sempron processor which will be targeted at fanless embedded designs. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD announced a new version of its Sempron processor which will be targeted ...

16. AMD announces availability of AMD M690 chipset

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    AMD on March 29 announced the availability of its M690 chipset for its Turion64 X2 dual-core mobile CPUs.AMD on March 29 announced the availability of its M690 chipset for its Turion64 X2 dual-core mobile ...

17. Did Intel rig its integrated graphics chip demo against AMD?

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    Intel's demonstration of its G965 integrated graphics chip at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose was impressive, but was it a true comparison against AMD's discrete graphics cards? San ...

18. AMD challenges Intel with its first integrated graphics chipset

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    AMD today announced its RS690 chipset which is not only AMD’s first-ever integrated graphics chipset solution, but also the first product that takes advantage of technologies from both AMD and ATI. ...

19. Wrapping up the 2006 processor prices story - UPDATE

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... you may remember that AMD was dominating the performance charts and what we call today power-efficiency disciplines. Intel's Core Duo was launched during CES as the firms second 65 nm processor and the ...

20. Dell's first quad-core systems indicate hefty premium for Kentsfield CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... now available with Pentium D processors from $585. The Optiplex 740 series is Dell's first business desktop family with AMD (Athlon 64 X2) processors, includes a trusted platform module (v1.2) and is priced ...

21. Roadmap leak indicates ATI direction after AMD acquisition

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    An ATI chipset roadmap has appeared on two South American websites today. At least for now, it appears that the acquisition by AMD could accelerate the rollout of products and ATI. While battling Intel ...

22. AMD's Yokohama Centrino to surface in Q4?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD may be closer to a Centrino competitor than many may have expected. According to a media report, AMD and ATI may be introducing a notebook platform, code-named "Yokohama," in the fourth quarter of ...

23. Four AMD dual-core prices now at or near Intel price/performance curve

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    The battle lines are being drawn between four AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors and four Intel Pentium D dual-core CPUs. On the latest TG Daily charts, these two groups now stare each other squarely ...

24. Woodcrest launches Intel into a new era

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a few years ago, but Intel underestimated the impact of the trend and AMD, which managed to claim performance and efficiency crowns in desktop and server segments: Seemingly unchallenged, AMD has been ...

25. Intel releases Woodcrest benchmark results, claims series of records

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 125% faster than the current Xeon processor generation - and outpaces AMD's Opteron by about 60%. Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today released official server benchmark results, providing a first glimpse ...

26. AMD launches 3.0 GHz Opteron single cores

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    While Intel is busy prepping its next-generation Woodcrest server and workstation processors, AMD sails ahead with a final performance upgrade for its single-core Opteron CPU. AMD claims that the new ...

27. Intel launches first dual-core Xeon processor, challenges AMD's Opteron

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      "Paxville" is Intel's first shot in the volume server and workstation segment: The new processor, in its core a version of the Pentium D 800 series, will go head-to-head with AMD's dual-core Opteron, ...

28. AMD launches dual-core MP Opterons; Intel responds with low-voltage Xeons

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Having won one market victory with the first introduction of multicore processors for multi-processor platforms - and not wanting anyone to forget it too soon - AMD announced this morning the release ...

29. Sun fires up new Opteron-based servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Sun Microsystems has expanded its range of entry level Solaris x86 systems with the introduction of new servers and workstations based on AMD 64-bit Opteron processors. Sun Microsystems has expanded ...

30. id reveals Doom 3 system requirements

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... need a 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500, 384 megaBytes of memory, two gigabytes of hard drive space, an nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better - or alternatively an ATI 8500 or better. ...

31. AMD beats Intel on desktop shipments.

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Figures from market research companies agree that AMD has started to bite into Intel's desktop market share, but to what extent depends on which set of analysts you choose to believe. Figures ...

32. Major motherboard vendors to use SiS760 integrated solution

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... supporting the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Silicon Integrated Systems(SiS) today announced that top motherboard vendors ASUSTeK, ASRock, AOpen, ECS, Gigabyte and QDI will begin producing motherboards based ...

33. AMD announces Athlon MP and Opteron price cuts, some by as much as 34%

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), in response to Intel's processor price cuts in mid-July, has also lowered its workstation CPU prices. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), in response to Intel's processor ...

34. Nvidia Xbox chips move to production

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... communications devices to communicate with each other 24 times faster than they can presently. The technology is central to AMD's strategy for its 64-bit Sledgehammer that will compete against Intel Corp.'s ...

35. AMD unveils Athlon SMP

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Advanced Micro Devices' plans for Athlon-based Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), or multiple CPUs sharing memory, are coming out and The Register is enthusiastic in its review of the company's technology. ...