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1. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Lone Star Briefings Death to SysMark, terminate 3DmarkAMD is pushing its Vision concept for all that it’s worth and has concluded that in an age when notebooks are all pervasive, the metrics used in the ...

2. 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 ...

3. Spansion: CEO quits, seeking buyer or merger partner

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     The CEO of Spansion, Dr. Bertrand Cambou, who became president and CEO in 2006, has resigned. His resignation is reportedly "raising new questions about the future of the company." Spansion is continuing ...

4. Nvidia updates CUDA, adds Tesla support for Windows Vista

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... of improvements to OpenGL interoperability” as well as “support for recent releases of Linux including Fedora9, OpenSuse 11 and Ubuntu 8.04.”   Nvidia, like AMD, recently announced that developers ...

5. 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 ...

6. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... when Sun has a current market cap of $3.6 billion, Nvidia $4.0 billion and AMD $2.4 billion. Adobe could also be an enticing idea at $14.7 billion.  ...

7. Intel concerned about AMD spinoff plan

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Hinting at what could turn into a new front in the long-running battle between the two chipmakers, Intel spokesperson Chuck Mulloy said Tuesday that Intel has "serious questions" about AMD's latest move, ...

8. Fab spin-off saves AMD and Hector Ruiz

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     The basics of today’s AMD Asset Smart announcement were known for some time. But now we know about the extent of the involved investment and the fact that AMD will unload a significant portion ...

9. AMD sees its future in fusion

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     AMD decided to drop its “Smarter Choice” tagline in exchange for “The future is fusion” in an effort to highlight the combination of its microprocessor and graphics technologies. Fusion? Isn’t ...

10. AMD manufacturing spin-off announcement imminent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      AMD is getting itself into position to announce a spin-off of the company’s manufacturing business into a separate company. An analyst report this morning suggested that AMD is set to release ...

11. Nvidia GPU failures caused by material problem, sources claim

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... solders for some time and appears not to be experiencing a similar problem. However, Nvidia’s sudden switch to eutectic solders may have limited the availability of the material, impacting AMD production ...

12. New HyperTransport specification reveals updates for AMD's 45 nm CPUs, Fusion's secret

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      As the release of AMD's 45 nm processors Shanghai and, more importantly, Deneb is drawing closer, we are getting a better idea of what to expect from AMD’s next generation of CPUs. The HyperTransport Consortium ...

13. 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, ...

14. Nehalem = i7: Intel unveils new Core processor brand

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to buy a new PC.   Ever since Gigahertz numbers lost their appeal for AMD’s and Intel’s marketing whizzes, both companies seem to have been desperately looking for a decent sequence numbering system ...

15. Intel teases new Larrabee details

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... those cores compare to discrete graphics offerings from Nvidia and AMD/ATI? We don’t know for sure, but we received some hints. According to Intel, the idea of Larrabee was born out of a need of CPU programmability ...

16. Intel announces Centrino 2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will run much more efficiently. The technology works with AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphics. New wireless chipset, WiMax (almost) and … Turbo Memory! Complementing Montevina is the new 5000-series wireless ...

17. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Interview - A few weeks ago, we learned how Nvidia is using its PhysX API to convert PhysX calculations and accelerate them on a GPU. AMD wasn’t happy and Nvidia was accused of benchmark cheating. ...

18. 10 things you didn’t know about … Godfrey Cheng

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      10 personal questions and 10 personal answers from Godfrey Cheng, AMD’s Director of Product Marketing in the company’s Platform and Gaming Technologies division. He is responsible for AMD’s platform ...

19. 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 ...

20. Ubisoft caught in a little Assassin’s Creed scandal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... with Ubisoft, just like EA, Activision and other top publishers. Yes, AMD has a similar cooperation in place, but it is not as extensive as Nvidia’s program. Conclusion We leave it up to you to draw ...

21. 10 things you didn’t know about … Henri Richard

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of 2007 as the firm’s top marketing executive, but is probably better known for his prominent role at AMD, which he left last September. At AMD, he oversaw AMD’s international sales force, corporate ...

22. Apple to acquire multi-core processor developer PA Semi

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... claims that the platform can scale to 2.5 GHz and up to eight cores. Previously, the processor was pitched as a potential rival for Intel’s Core 2 Duo and AMD’s Athlon X2 processors, which raises questions ...

23. Technology bias: Can you avoid it?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... everywhere, and the flame wars quickly follow.  Whether it is Intel vs. AMD, HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, Nvidia vs. ATI, Ford vs. Chevy, or even Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, there are far more opinions ...

24. 10 things you didn’t know about … André Eriksen

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... device!)      The best idea I had … was hopefully founding Asetek. Luxury is … Last year I spent an AMD weekend with my wife in the Ferrari lounge at Monza, drinking chilled white wine, ...

25. 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.  ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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 ...

28. AMD's RV670 does double-precision at half the speed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    We have been talking about a hidden supercomputer in your graphics card for a while and now that AMD offers double-precision capability in its latest Firestream card we get a first taste how powerful ...

29. Via readies Isaiah as Intel Silverthorne competitor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... nm chip will get many of the features we have seen in AMD’s and Intel’s recent processor technologies, such as smart cache, branch prediction as well as micro/macro fusion. Isaiah now also includes 64-bit ...

30. New York launches antitrust investigation of Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMDs claims that Intel is engaging into anticompetitive behavior received new support through the New York Attorney General, who today said that Intel’s “potential anticompetitive conduct ...

31. Do Intel's delays hint of 45nm woes?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Author's opinion Intel wouldn't move release dates without some valid reason.  Is Intel just taking advantage of AMD's current heartaches--responding, as it were, the way a company ...

32. Intel delays three quad-core CPUs on AMD's problems

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Santa Clara (CA) - Digitimes is reporting that Intel has decided to adjust its scheduled release of three previous quad-core CPUs from January to February or March, due to the problems AMD has been having ...

33. Ruiz: AMD profitable again by Q3 2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD faced critical analysts once again at its December analyst meeting, but chief executive officer Hector Ruiz sees the company on a road of continued recovery, which he believes will result in a return ...

34. AMD promises to “fix quad-core”, touts hybrid graphics

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    At a conference with analysts held today, AMD acknowledged problems of bringing its quad-core processors to market and said that it the introduction of the chip has been a disappointment so far. The company ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 ...

36. Generic CPU power efficiency claims are pointless, almost

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Is yours a balanced workload or is it specialized with particuar stress on single components?  All of these questions are just the beginning. In the x86 world today, AMD and Intel are both claiming their ...

37. UPDATED: Korea concludes Intel violated anti-trust regulations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... decided by the full Commission.  Also, any specific time schedule for the hearing for the Intel case has not been determined."   AMD has reportedly stated they were contacted by Korean authorities ...

38. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

39. Wrap-up: AMD outlines a bright future at Technology Analyst Day

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    If you have been waiting for some news on how AMD will counter Intel in the next one, two years, then the Technology Analyst Day provided many answers. Not a lot of finished products, but AMD outlined ...

40. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... supported through 2008.  Other versions should be nearly identical.  I have installed both the x86 and AMD64 versions and they're identical for installation. The only problem I encountered ...

41. Analysis: How serious are the bugs in Intel's Core 2 Duo?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 32 planned fixes and 69 no fixes, we can also look at AMD's errata from their aging AMD64 technology. Both companies keep very good public relations up regarding errata data for their products. And, ...

42. Roadmap update: Intel aims to release first 45 nm CPU in 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... whether Intel will be able compete this year with AMD's Phenom X4 quad-core processor, which is expected to to launch in November. 45 nm mobile processors will follow in Q1 2008, presumably with ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

46. AMD: Manufacturing alone not critical to product success

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Investors and shareholders questioned the competitiveness of AMD’s current semiconductor manufacturing technology as well as the firm’s information policy about upcoming products during a ...

47. Quo vadis, Nvidia?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

48. Opinion: Is Intel copying AMD?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... graphics capability into the CPU. Does AMD innovate and Intel has begun to follow? Here’s some food for thought. You can’t tell me you haven’t asked this question yourself: Why exactly ...

49. AMD puts Barcelona quad-core into the spotlight at ISSCC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD unwrapped a few more details about its upcoming quad-core server and workstation processor "Barcelona" at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). San Francisco (CA) - ...

50. Analyst opinion: Searching for the perfect Media Center PC

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... for fear of losing receiver sales), this product is both stunning and sets the pace for similar offerings running Windows Vista next year. The fact it was based on an AMD Live! Media Center concept suggests ...