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1. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... of 2009. Nevertheless, Intel remains wary of AMD which still controls 10 percent of the server market and recently introduced its indigenous, Opteron-based Fiorano platform. Intel is also concerned ...

2. AMD launches indigenous server platform

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   AMD has launched its first server platform with an indigenous chipset and six-core Opteron processor. The platform - code-named Fiorano - supports Hyper Transport 3.0 technology, PCI Express 2.0, IO-virtualization ...

3. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The retooled chip reportedly offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. San Francisco (CA) - AMD has introduced ...

5. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Analysis - While it's true that Global Foundries has an assured business fabbing out Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) designs, it has to make a far bigger impact on the industry if it truly wants to go ...

6. AMD loses $330 million in second quarter

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   AMD, which calls itself AMD Product Company following the spin-off of its manufacturing arm that is now called Globalfoundries, continued to bleed cash in the second quarter of this year. Revenue dropped ...

7. HP announces AMD 6- and 12-core workstations

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the first major workstation vendor to announce systems that can be ordered with AMD’s monolithic 6-core Opteron 2400-series processors, previously code-named Istanbul. With up ...

8. IBM and Cray claim victory in battle for supercomputer supremacy

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... AMD Opteron processors. Meanwhile, a total of 399 systems (79.8 percent) on the Top500 list use Intel processors. IBM Power processors are found in 55 systems (11 percent), followed by the AMD Opteron ...

9. Intel vs. AMD 6-core CPUs: Speed vs. power?

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... would allow Intel to go. Today’s announcement of the Istanbul CPU shows that AMD is catching up, at least in some product segments. Opinion – When Intel introduced its Dunnington 6-core processors back ...

10. Neelie Kroes' Intel fine is vaporware

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the fine is vaporware because it will only be collected if a court agrees. He says that Kroes' agency has not performed any due process and claims the news fanfare is not worth the coverage. AMD isn't, ...

11. AMD: EU’s Intel decision is not about the money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD is riding the wave of the EU’s $1.45 billion fine imposed earlier today on Intel – with good reason: The fine resulted from a complaint AMD filed about nine years ago. But AMD also knows that even ...

12. 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. ...

13. AMD pulls in six-core CPU, announces 16-core for 2011

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD updated its server processor roadmap with several surprises. The new monolithic six-core Opteron version, code-named Istanbul, will be introduced in June. We will also see a new integrated memory ...

14. AMD revenue flatlines

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD's trickling revenue stream has flatlined. Total first quarter losses equaled $416 million, or 66 cents a share, compared with a loss of $364 million, or 60 cents a share, for the year-earlier period. Sunnyvale ...

15. AMD discounts 6-core processor upgrades ahead of launch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD decided to give its customers a monetary incentive to upgrade to a newer Opteron server processor. The program includes dual-, quad and 6-core processors and includes an upgrade discount of up to ...

16. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... more innovative hardware vendors out there, but it is not its strength. It was one of the companies jumping on AMD’s Opteron processors and made substantial advances in the server market, but selling ...

17. AMD’s six-core CPU gets first public demo

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD said that it has successfully demonstrated its first six-core processor code-named Istanbul. The processor is still on schedule to debut in the second half of this year. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD said ...

18. Red Hat and Microsoft play nice on virtualization

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... i7, as well as AMD's Phenoms and Opterons. By the second half of the year, Microsoft will be on Red Hat's hardware certification list. The agreement between the two companies has no patent or open-source ...

19. Wikipedia edits may become more restricted

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... quotes or released documents as they tend to solidify claims made (making the articles more reliable). The best citations are those which go back to the article subject's website, such as pointing to www.amd.com ...

20. AMD announces new low-power quad-core Opterons

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD today announced wide availability of five new 55 watt ACP quad-core Opteron processors. The 45nm CPUs operate from 2.1 to 2.3 GHz. Also, AMD announced two new 45nm Opteron SE processors (2.8 GHz) ...

21. Sandia simulation shows that many-cores reduce compute power

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the same time, saying, 'I want this information.' Then they have to wait until the answer to their request comes back. This causes delays." He continues, "The original AMD processors in Red Storm were ...

22. UPDATE: AMD Shanghai versus Intel Nehalem at 45nm

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Anandtech.com posted an article last week comparing Intel's Nehalem to AMD's Shanghai on the Linpack 9.1 benchmark. While running the same binary on both systems, the Core i7 2.66 GHz with HyperThreading ...

23. AMD to release Phenom II in January with a refocus away from enterprise segment

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    AMD told analysts yesterday that Phenom II X4 would launch at CES 2009 in January. This Shanghai-equivalent desktop product of the Deneb core, will serve as a launching platform for AMD's new industry ...

24. AMD delays Fusion processor to 2011

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      In a rather unexpected announcement, AMD today said that it shelved the development of its 2010 Fusion with 45 nm Shrike core and decided to introduce the Fusion concept with the 2011 Llano CPU ...

25. AMD on track to introduce 32 nm chips in 2010

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Save During its 2008 Financial Analyst Day, AMD chief executive officer Dirk Meyer confirmed that 32 nm chip designs are being “finalized” and prepared for a 2010 introduction. Meyer did not ...

26. AMD Shanghai: We are back!

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Destruction and came close to knocking out AMD for good. Analyst Opinion - Barcelona, which had been positioned as the product that would obliterate Intel in the server and workstation markets, went ...

27. AMD Shanghai: Is it enough?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    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 is ...

28. AMD unleashes 45 nm Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 that ...

29. 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 ...

30. AMD set to release nine 45 nm processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD is ready to jump into the 45 nm arena: According to Digitimes, AMD will launch nine 45 nm Shanghai quad-core Opteron processors in October and address the mid- and high-performance range of ...

31. AMD’s first 45 nm processor in volume production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD somewhat surprisingly confirmed in a conversation with Cnet’s Brooke Crothers that the company’s first 45 nm processor is in full production “right now”. First silicon from the production ...

32. AMD to manufacture 40 nm CPUs at TSMC in 2009?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      As the announcement of AMD’s split-up announcement is drawing closer, more puzzle pieces of what appears to be the big picture of the company’s Asset Smart strategy are falling into place. One ...

33. AMD rips Intel’s Dunnington

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... nearing its limits. Power consumption levels on the high-end are reaching questionable levels again. It is where Dunnington is most impressive at first sight, but most vulnerable to AMD’s attacks. And besides ...

34. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to power new HP blade server

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    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 ...

35. AMD on track to report a profit for Q3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Remember AMD’s promise to return to profitability in the third quarter of this year? You may be wondering how this will be possible considering the fact that the company has lost money over the past ...

36. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... such as Larrabee, the ready-to-launch WiMax mobile platform, CE processors such as Tolapai and new partners such as Dreamworks. IDF’s marketing machine typically buries anything from AMD, but this year, ...

37. Intel phases out most Clovertown and Woodcrest processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 core. Certain ...

38. DreamWorks switches to Intel, creates 3D movies with Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will get Larrabee as soon as teh technoilogy is available, we were told.        DreamWorks so far has been a strong supporter for AMD and heavily pitched its partnership ...

39. Watch out, Larrabee: Radeon 4800 supports a 100% ray-traced pipeline using DirectX 9

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... still 18 months away. But it appears that Intel may be defeated in its own game, as AMD’s graphics chips are supporting a 100% ray-traced pipeline, TG Daily learned. San Francisco (CA) – It appears ...

40. Playstation 3 processor powers the world’s first Petaflop supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... AMD’s Opteron processors. The fastest supercomputer using Intel processors and being installed outside the U.S. is a BlueGene/P system called Jugene, which is located at the Forschungszentrum  Juelich  ...

41. Clearspeed squeezes 96 GFlops out of 12 watts

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Clearspeed has been one of the pioneers in the floating point acceleration arena, a battleground that today also includes Nvidia, AMD and soon Intel as well. Clearspeed’s new CSX700 processor-based ...

42. Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... as well as 3456 tri-blades which can deliver 400 GFlops each. Also noteworthy is that Roadrunner was supposed to become the flagship product of AMD’s Torrenza platform, a project which was pitched as ...

43. Delta Airlines receives multi-million-dollar aircraft simulator

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 777-200LR), the CAE system is based on electromagnetic engines instead of hydraulics as well as AMD Opteron processors and ATI Radeon / FireGL graphics engines. Atlanta (GA) - Delta took delivery of ...

44. A matter of choice: Sun announces B3 Opteron servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Sun joins the growing number of companies to announce servers based on AMD’s “fixed”, quad-core Opteron processor with Barcelona B3 core. These new servers join Sun’s existing lineup of Intel ...

45. AMD rolls out low-power quad-core Opteron CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD’s B3 stepping Barcelona processors appear to be finally on track as the company continues to announce new design wins and new models joining the existing line-up. The company is now offering ...

46. AMD announces 6-core and 12-core Opteron processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced ...

47. AMD's $1 quad-core processors can't resolve SNAFU in Shanghai

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      AMD is currently preparing its presentations for the company’s annual stockholder meeting next week and we hear that the company will let us know that more than 1 million quad-core CPUs have been ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 ...

49. FSB limits exposed: Intel CPUs don’t scale very well in UC Berkeley HPC test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... environments. As reported first by HPC Wire, the scientists evaluated AMD’s Opteron (Santa Rosa), Intel’s Itanium 2 and Xeon (Clovertown), as well as the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell BE and Sun’s Niagara 2 processors. ...

50. 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, ...