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1. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   AMD has rolled out several Athlon II processors which are "fully optimized" for Windows 7. According to AMD spokesperson Brent Barry, the most recent additions to the Athlon II family will allow manufacturers ...

2. Nvidia accuses Intel of 'improper claims,' pulls out of chipset development

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   ... as well." The spokesperson also claimed that Nvidia continued to sell "a higher quantity of chipsets" on AMD platforms than AMD itself. "MCP61-based platforms continue to be extremely well positioned ...

3. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... by the products of Intel's main competitor, AMD." The EU says that Intel rebates to Dell from December 2002 to December 2005 were conditioned on Dell purchasing exclusively Intel CPUs. For example, in ...

4. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   ... It is very thin and can be had with AMD or Intel processors, LED backlit screen, and discrete graphics.   Less than an inch thick and with a 4.2 pound carry weight this isn’t the thinnest or ...

5. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   ... followed complaints from AMD in 2000, 2003 and 2006.  See also: EU poised to hit Intel with mega fine Intel positions artilleryIntel cannot lose  ...

6. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 14 January 2009

   ... put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is being pushed by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which offer DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft ...

7. DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 07 December 2008

   ... Whatever the motivation may be, here is what you need to know about DisplayPort and HDCP in Macs. DisplayPort (DP) is a royalty-free technology that has been adopted by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which now ...

8. Lenovo fires up 17” mobile workstation

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 12 August 2008

   ... or 128 CUDA parallel processing cores – Nvidia’s new marketing name for the graphic chip’s processor cores (AMD calls its graphics processor units stream processors.) Lenovo said that the W700 can be ...

9. Rate your CEO on Glassdoor.com

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Monday, 16 June 2008

   ... down, you can find Steve Appleton from Micron with 22% and AMD’s Hector Ruiz with 14%. There are several CEO with a 0% approval rating, including Lenovo’s Bill Amelio, Palm’s Ed Colligan and Quantum’s ...

10. AMD aims to increase desktop processor sales with business platform pitch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 27 April 2008

    ... while AMD may be trailing this trend a bit, it is on the same path. Of course, this means that the desktop business units have to get more creative in pitching their products: Just like Intel, AMD is ...

11. F1 Supercomputing championship: Toyota ditches Itanium CPUs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 22 April 2008

    ... 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, ...

12. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

      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 ...

13. Toshiba joins the ‘stunning’ notebook crowd

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... and fun and convenient way to gain access to the laptop based on a recorded digital image of the user’s face.” Standard equipment of the A300 includes an AMD Turion X2 TL-64 processor, 3GB of memory ...

14. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 11 January 2008

    ... you've never heard of The Blu-ray booth vs. the HD DVD booth at CES 2008 AMD's HDTV on a USB stick Philips booth at CES 2008  ...

15. Is the Consumer Electronics Show on its last leg?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 January 2008

    ... with Blu-Ray, Bill Gates set the date he would officially leave Microsoft with a great video, Intel pointed towards the future of really cool tiny computers and AMD brought out its Live Ultra home entertainment ...

16. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    ... wish list for folks in the US and that indicates that volume should be very strong. While we often watch Apple, Dell, HP, Acer (Gateway), and Lenovo in this segment, the big fight is always between AMD ...

17. Lenovo launches 45-watt PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 12 September 2007

    ... by a major system builder that is available with AMD's low power Athlon X2 BE-2350 or Sempron LE 1150 processors. According to Lenovo, the new system is considerably smaller than its predecessor and ...

18. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... Apple, Intel, LG, National Semiconductor, Samsung, Silicon Image Agilent, AMD, Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Molex, NVIDIA, Philips, Samsung, several others. Officially supported by VESA ...

19. Samsung touts development of first Displayport desktop LCD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 July 2007

    ... include AMD, Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Nvidia, Philips and Samsung.  ...

20. What Formula One tells us about the tech industry

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 21 June 2007

    ... market share as they have taken back a substantial amount of the ground they lost to AMD in a number of markets. However, over the last several years they have, and you could argue the entire processor ...

21. 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 ...

22. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    ... the mobile market, clearly outpacing AMD’s Turion 64 X2 processor both in performance and shipments. However, the original Core 2 Duo is only two months away from its one year anniversary and in ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. A $600 Turion 64 notebook from the grocery store

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 23 October 2006

    ... basic household needs, will be offering a notebook in the U.S, beginning next week. According to the company, the notebook includes a 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 "MK-36" processor, a Nvidia Geforce 6100 graphics ...

26. Lenovo offers biometrically protected hard drives

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 16 October 2006

    Lenovo is partnering with Utimaco to offer new ThinkPad notebooks with biometrically secured hard drives. Utimaco has integrated their SafeGuard Easy 4.3 program which will encrypt all the entire hard ...

27. Is Intel back and do they love Apple? You betcha!

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 27 September 2006

    ... ... For developers, this is their chance to see what is coming and to prepare for it. Intel's big push, like AMD's, is towards massive multi-core products - such as a showcased prototype 80 core part that ...

28. Lenovo rolls out Linux Thinkpad

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 August 2006

    Lenovo continues to transform IBM's former PC division and adjust the characteristics that determine the look and feel of the computers. After adopting AMD processors in certain models, Lenovo now also ...

29. How ATI fits into AMD's Intel beating strategy - analyst opinion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 09 August 2006

    ... to be unbeatable. AMD started out with a severe disadvantage, but has been, over the last two years, surprising Intel with a series of critical wins and amazing execution. They are now betting, and running ...

30. Lenovo to use Athlon, Sempron CPUs in Thinkcentre PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 07 August 2006

    AMD scored another design win today with Lenovo announcing that it will build Athlon 64 and Sempron processors into a business-targeted desktop PC: After the J series for home users, the Thinkcentre A60 ...

31. Microsoft's answer to the $100 laptop: Pay-as-you-go

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 22 May 2006

    ... that is owned by buyer's right after the purchase. As of now, it appears that such a portable computer would use a 500 MHz AMD processor. There will not be a hard drive, but a 512 MB flash memory unit ...

32. Dell to offer AMD Opteron processors in servers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 18 May 2006

    In a stunning adjustment of its product strategy, Dell today announced that it will be selling high-end server systems based on AMD's Opteron processor. The move comes in a time Dell is facing increasing ...

33. AMD: We are growing with or without Dell

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 24 February 2006

    ... of that news was that AMD now has a foot in the door at two of the world's three largest PC makers. And, at least publicly, the company isn't too worried about getting the last one - Dell. Chicago (IL) ...

34. First Lenovo-branded desktops and notebooks hit the market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 23 February 2006

    ... a choice between Intel or AMD processors, including the Pentium 4, Celeron D or Sempron or Athlon processors. However Lenovo engineers were very sketchy on the precise technical details of either the notebooks ...

35. AMD subpoenas dozens of major Intel customers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 07 October 2005

    ... subpoenas to 36 major US tech companies seeking documentation to support its antitrust lawsuit against Intel. AMD expects to receive 6 to 8 teraBytes of data in documentation from the subpoenaed companies, ...

36. AMD, Lenovo win PC contract for Chinese schools

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 11 January 2005

      AMD, Lenovo and Dawning have won a contract to supply 26,000 AMD-based computers for newly wired classrooms in a Chinese province. AMD, Lenovo and Dawning have won a contract to supply 26,000 ...