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1. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Analysis: Broad agreement to establish industry ground rules Updated: God alone knows how much lawyers have benefited from the latest spat between AMD and Intel. Today the two companies announced a settlement ...

2. Nvidia touts CUDA-enabled GPUs for Snow Leopard

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 04 September 2009

   ... See also AMD touts benefits of OpenCL and Snow Leopard Chip Wars: NVIDIA and ATI spar over OpenCL GPU support       ...

3. Oracle-Sun: A glass half full

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Monday, 20 April 2009

   ... and may also signal the death knell for the Sparc processor (to the benefit of Intel and AMD). So the winner in this event is clearly Oracle, but Sun wins as well since it would have floundered without ...

4. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 February 2009

   ... the good news was that we saw GPGPU acceleration in a commercial application, giving it more horsepower to deal with huge images. Both AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphic cards provide Adobe with acceleration through ...

5. Next up for Intel’s 32 nm chips: Prepare for production

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 09 December 2008

   ... Intel is on track to deliver 32 nm on time next year and at least about one year ahead of AMD. It appears that Intel has mastered all the challenges of a 32 nm shrink. It will use a second-generation ...

6. Do we really need Cinema 2.0?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 17 June 2008

     Opinion – AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower hidden in the company’s graphics card. A second generation cinema, could the result, merging convincing cinematic digital ...

7. Intel Nehalem to allow overclocking, some processors will even encourage it

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 June 2008

     Hot on the heels of AMD's overclocking secret, we can reveal that Bloomfield and Lynnfield, key processors of Intel’s upcoming Nehalem family, will indeed feature overclocking capabilities for ...

8. A $5300 PC challenges $4.6 million supercomputer

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 30 May 2008

   ... that runs CUDA-optimized tomography applications. The specifications include a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard, an AMD Phenom 9850 CPU, 4 x 2 GB Corsair TWINX DDR2 PC6400 memory, a Samsung Spinpoint F1 750 ...

9. Is Microsoft gambling away its Windows empire?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 28 May 2008

   ... and acceleration features such as GPGPU support in particular. While we still have to figure out what GPGPU acceleration is really good for on a consumer PC, AMD already presented an application that can ...

10. Nvidia takes cautious first step into graphics-accelerated mainstream programming

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 May 2008

    ... applications. AMD previously demonstrated its stream processors in an application that rendered a user’s hand, which was captured by a webcam, in near real-time and replaced the mouse as moving around ...

11. AMD turns TSMC into a CPU manufacturing giant

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

      News that AMD has taken a big step to outsource its manufacturing to TSMC and that wafer testing for SOI mass production has begun mad waves yesterday.  The speculated background is AMD’s ...

12. Intel and Nvidia co-sponsors in parallel programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    ... And no, that headline is no mistake: The initial group of sponsors includes a colorful mix of rivals and partners: AMD, Nvidia, Sun Microsystems as well as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, showing first ...

13. AMD promises a “completely different” CPU architecture to succeed Barcelona

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

      It is fair to 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 ...

14. Analysis: How AMD Asset Light will reveal MAD AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

      It’s easy to get lost in the continuous wave of bad news surrounding AMD, competitive threats and predictions that the company is on its way out. Over the past few weeks we spent time with AMD ...

15. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... 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 Efficeon CPU with a score of 137.  ...

16. Can Singularity heal Microsoft’s Windows Vista wounds?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    ... of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, ...

17. PC industry rivals form gaming alliance against consoles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    Gaming consoles like Sony’s PlayStation 3 have taken up too much of the spotlight and PC companies are taking notice. At this year’s Game Developers Conference, arch rivals like Intel and AMD are ...

18. UCLA finds layout design important in transistor performance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 20 December 2007

    ... would be very surprised to learn that major production manufacturing entities like Intel, Samsung, AMD, etc., aren't already taking such transistor design considerations into account.  I would ...

19. Tech Talk Terascale: TG Daily chats with Intel CTO Justin Rattner

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    ... an Intel technology back in the 2003 timeframe that was expected to be the answer to AMD’s 64-bit technology] Rattner:  Right. I think a number of people from the technology groups said that ...

20. IDF Fall 2007 Wrap-up

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    ... Eden took the opportunity to explain why he believes that Intel has the edge right now – and why he believes Intel will keep it. Of course, that brought AMD into the discussion as well and Eden wasn't ...

21. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored - Part 2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 August 2007

    ... 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 compatible.  Neither do they ...

22. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    ... about it for more than two years, AMD is following its rival. But even if you are deeply involved in Enterprise architecture, an environment that is expected to be leading the virtualization world, there ...

23. Analysis: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 17 June 2007

    ... 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 graphics cards available to general ...

24. Intel CEO compares AMD’s success to a “comet passing in the night”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 15 June 2007

    During a recent forum discussion with employees at Intel’s Jones Farm production facility in Hillsboro Oregon, chief executive officer Paul Otellini said that AMD’s recent success in the microprocessor ...

25. AMD's CTO: Intel is an old-school company

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 May 2007

    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 ...

26. Microsoft to sponsor robotics competition

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 15 May 2007

    Microsoft has teamed up with For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) to offer a new regional robotics competition near its Seattle, Washington headquarters next year. Manchester ...

27. Background: What Fusion will be – and what not

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 11 May 2007

    We recently were able to spend some time with AMD to learn more about its upcoming chip technologies. Not surprisingly, one focus was Fusion, AMD’s mysterious processor that will marry graphics ...

28. How AMD plans to sail through the "perfect storm"

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 April 2007

    AMD has wrapped up an extremely rocky quarter and the company used strong vocabulary to tell analysts that the firm's Q1 was a “meltdown” and “not just a miss.” However, the ...

29. Analysis: AMD loses dominance in U.S. retail channel to Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 April 2007

    Yesterday, AMD issued a surprising revenue warning and said that especially the resale channel turned sour during Q1. Today, TG Daily learned that AMD’s market share in U.S. desktop retail dropped ...

30. Quo vadis, Nvidia?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 April 2007

    Have you ever wondered how AMD’s ATI acquisition and the battle for the mainstream customer in the CPU and GPU markets would impact Nvidia? We did and spent some time with the company to learn about ...

31. Ruiz: AMD’s first quad-core to ship in “late summer”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 March 2007

    AMD’s Hector Ruiz today provided a few more details on the expected Q1 revenue shortfall. According to Ruiz, is currently dealing with the effects of a rapid shift from a channel to an OEM-focused ...

32. AMD challenges Intel with its first integrated graphics chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 February 2007

    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. ...

33. P.A. Semi challenges AMD, IBM and Intel in power efficiency

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 February 2007

    ... the developer, the PWRficient PA6T-1682M processor platform consumes a maximum of 25 watts and a typical 5 - 13 watts, compared to an Intel Core 2 Duo with 85 watts and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 95 watts, ...

34. AMD celebrates record market share numbers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 January 2007

    Mercury Research today released its annual market share numbers for the x86 microprocessor market, which could be considered the icing on an especially delicious cake for AMD in 2006. Chicago (IL) - Mercury ...

35. An unexpected surprise for AMD: Turion sales surge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 October 2006

    AMD delivered a solid Q3 result, but the company wasn't completely happy with its performance. The transition to DDR2 memory, the introduction of its Rev F Opterons as well as the preparation of 65 nm ...

36. The long road to Conroe

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 27 July 2006

    ... AMD almost as much as Intel with the creation of the Woodcrest, Conroe, and Merom architectures, the latter two of which Intel released today. In 2004, AMD effectively threw down a very sizeable gauntlet, ...

37. TG Daily interviews Intel Senior VP: "Core is changing the game"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 27 July 2006

    ... to talk with David Perlmutter, Intel's top mobility executive, about Core. Join us in a chat about challenges, opportunities, AMD and future products. If you aren't excited about computers these days, ...

38. AMD and ATI: Will their technologies merge as well?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 July 2006

    It was AMD that approached ATI with the business proposition: Would it be interested in playing a principal role in creating the next low-power, high-performance mobility platform? Apparently the answer ...

39. Quo vadis, Viiv?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 16 July 2006

    Entertainment PCs have been available for some time, but don't penetrate the market as quickly as some would have hoped. AMD and Intel launched their entertainment platforms earlier this year to speed ...

40. TG Daily visits Qimonda: 300 mm fab focused on DRAM, not flash

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 26 June 2006

    ... producers using factors other than just price. AMD has been perceived as having succeeded in making the quality play, in a CPU market that could easily have been commoditized by the dominating presence ...

41. AMD unleashes AM2 processor series

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 May 2006

    AMD today announced 15 new processors based on its new socket AM2 and support for DDR2 memory. While 13 processors simply transition from the old socket 939, there are two completely new CPUs - the 2.6 ...

42. AMD challenges Intel with 35W, 65W desktop processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 May 2006

    ... half, while AMD apparently has still enough potential in its current chips to answer - and actually surpass Intel's power numbers. Sunnyvale (CA) - Performance-per-watt is the name of the game in today's ...

43. AMD CEO: Consumer CPU capacity could be traded to fuel commercial growth

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 March 2006

    The company that redefined CPU performance in the high-end desktop space, may lift its foot just a little off the gas in that market, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said today. The reason is to start concentrating ...

44. IBM drives chipmaking process beyond current limitations

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... has been in place since 1995, but was believed to run out of steam by 2003 or 2004. Back in 1997, Intel, Motorola and AMD created the EUV Limited Liability Corporation to develop an extreme ultraviolet ...

45. University of Michigan develops quantum processor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 17 January 2006

    It's much too early for AMD or Intel to start looking over their shoulder, but the University of Michigan has developed a quantum chip that contains one cadmium ion. The ion, which is suspended in electrical ...

46. Aeneon: Cheap memory or an alternative for white boxes and retail?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 08 December 2005

    ... To ensure 100 percent compatibility, we are partnering with popular chipset and motherboard manufacturers in validation tests. Among others, these include SIS, Via, AMD, ATI, Asus, Gigabyte, ECS, MSI and ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 October 2005

      "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, ...

48. Dual-cores to rule PC world by 2007, Gartner says

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 28 April 2005

      Following AMD's and Intel's announcements of dual-core processors Gartner concluded that dual-core processors will represent the majority of units shipped by 2007. Following AMD's and Intel's ...

49. AMD's challenges in 64-bit CPUs: Q&A with CEO Hector de Ruiz

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 March 2005

      Hector de Ruiz, chairman, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was in Taipei last week, to tout the company's technology edge in the development of 64-bit CPUs, and to strengthen its ...

50. Targeting AMD and ATI, ULi finds its niche

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 04 March 2005

    ... and single-chip K8 AMD core-logic solutions. Kuo also spoke about partnerships and the challenges he faces managing a niche player in a competitive market. More here at DigiTimes.  ...