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1. Intel makes loss because of Europe. Really.

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... has done a smart thing by absorbing the EU fine. It will be profitable quarter on quarter as time goes on, as it claws back the money. We look forward to AMD's results, which will come out  real ...

2. AMD releases a processor you can’t buy

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   AMD has released the mysterious Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, which is, according to the company, the most capable processor desktop CPU offered by the company. In fact, the CPU is so special ...

3. Wind River: Intel is aiming another big gun at Apple, ARM

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... leader in embedded and communications devices, and Intel is the newcomer. Intel artillery is in position, the target is all over the place, but the defense is much stronger than what AMD had to offer a ...

4. Intel may face civil charges in Europe

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... and additionally offered computer manufacturers rebates for using Intel chips instead of AMD’s, the European Commission slapped the company with one of the largest ever antitrust fines. Intel of course, ...

5. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Globalfoundries, the spun-off manufacturing arm of AMD, provided a first glimpse at the plans of its 1.3 million square foot chip factory to be built at Luther Forest Technology Park in Saratoga County. ...

6. Intel Atoms not in demand: End of the Netbook?

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Opinion - A report in Digitimes yesterday claimed that Intel has a surplus of Atoms because of a lack of demand and that it's discounting them to second tier companies. Opinion - A report in Digitimes ...

7. Golden Goose continues to lay Microsoft eggs

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... PCs - a pattern that's familiar to  Intel, AMD, and the other snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug PC players. Microsoft, incidentally, said dents in its Windows division revenues weren't affected by booming ...

8. The coming ARM vs. Intel PC battle

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... at least some of the opportunity for ARM is Intel's pricing policy for Atom, which is seen as too restrictive by OEMs and is forcing them to seek alternatives. AMD has an Intel mobile based competitor ...

9. Intel to pour $7B into 32 nm factory upgrades

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... goes down to factors such as air quality, temperature and geologic stability. By simply upgrading fabs, many of the usual concerns should prove to be (expensive) non-issues.AMD is also in the process of ...

10. Stanford goes fully molecular with OpenMM

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... NVIDIA and AMD/ATI. AMD and NVIDIA both helped significantly in making sure this software ran effectively and efficiently on their GPUs. From the press release: "A free workshop on OpenMM and OpenMM ...

11. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... be seeing any WOW! products - quite possibly ever again. Not from Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, VIA, Nvidia, or even the the John Kanziuss of the world - at least not those that weren‘t fully ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

13. Disassembling a 768 MB EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX video card for kicks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a real heft to it when held - much more so than I was expecting. For anyone who's worked with modern Intel or AMD CPUs, the physical package of the NVIDIA G80-300 GPU is close to the same size, maybe ...

14. AMD unlikely to gain ground on Intel at 32 nm. Does it matter?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      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 ...

15. Tech mergers ahead?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 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 the hottest ticket may actually ...

16. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      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 the ...

17. AMD goes fabless, targets Intel

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      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 because ...

18. AMD launches $40 graphics cards assault against Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 ...

19. 270 watts for the performance crown: AMD’s Radeon HD 4870 X2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 and ...

20. AMD's 790GX served with secret sauce for overclocking

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 interest: ...

21. Greener than an Apple: Cherrypal’s $250 PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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. Other specs include 256 MB DDR2 ...

22. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 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 after that story ...

23. ATI Radeon 4850/4870 mix and match with Radeon 3850/3870

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 unlikely ...

24. First ATI Radeon HD 4850 reviews surface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    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 come ...

25. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... inevitably include SATA support, which would allow users 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 ...

26. The story of the missing journalist

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... case, similar 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 ...

27. BioHazard CEO: “Skulltrail is overkill for current games”

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... can be an issue for marketing support, to better illustrate the options available. TG Daily: From your perspective, what is the difference between Skulltrail and AMD’s QuadFX? Smith: I think QuadFX suffered ...

28. AMD Puma will not be able to compete with Core 2 Duo, industry sources claim

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 processor ...

29. Tegra brand starts speculations about new Nvidia products

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 processor business - APX2500 is not exactly a ...

30. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 racing ...

31. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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.  ...

32. Google/Virgin venture, custom time creation part of April Fool's

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... April Fool'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 ...

33. TSMC invests $5 billion to keep AMD, Nvidia and Sun happy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 growing complexity of ...

34. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: "PCs are good for anything, just not games”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 next several ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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, ...

36. Intel preps Atom for world domination

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 a variety ...

37. AMD’s Markham labs: Flushing out graphics bugs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 can ...

38. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    TG Daily In Depth - The past 19 months certainly 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 ...

39. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... and, as a result, are often much more tangled up in this 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 ...

40. Dell goes against HP, IBM with new blade servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 servers are 60% more dense than standard 1U servers. ...

41. Multiple: 2007 top ten lists

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 computing issues begins ...

42. Server electricity use to grow faster in Asia-Pacific and Western Europe than in the U.S.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    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 ...

43. Sun open-sources T2 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and AMD’s x86 processors. Sun hopes that free and complete access to the technological details of the T1 and T2 will attract the interest of developers: The company announced that it has begun working ...

44. Microsoft releases 90-day free trial of Visual Studio 2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... be a significantly slimmed down version.  According to AMD, a close partner to Microsoft on their compiler development, Visual Studio typically goes out to about 9 million users.  Visual Studio ...

45. UPDATE: HD 3800: AMD’s Midrange Rebuttal - benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 allowed ...

46. AMD goes against Nvidia’s Tesla with new stream processor card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 SDKs ...

47. A greener gauge: data center efficiency metrics proposed

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... explicit definitions about what each of those terms encompasses. The Green Grid hopes to establish an industry standard.  Its members include employees from AMD, Microsoft, Dell, Rackable Systems, ...

48. AMD gets B2 stepping, could see 3.0 GHz Barcelonas very soon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    It's being published that 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 ...

49. Intel seeks collaboration, open protocols and a 3D Web

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 take the lead. ...

50. TG Daily Coverage: AMD's Barcelona launch event

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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, all ...