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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... performance in a multi-GPU computing environment. Lucid spokesperson Kimberly Stowe told TG Daily that Hydra 200-based motherboards were expected to reach consumers by Q1 2010. AMD powered Jaguar wins ...

2. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... GT300 to April 2010. "TSMC has accelerated the improvement of its 40nm process and AMD is expected to launch entry-level Radeon HD 5600/5300 GPUs in the first quarter of 2010," wrote Monica Chen of Digitimes. ...

3. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... quarter. According to IDC, Intel owned 81.1 percent of the PC processor share worldwide, AMD owned 18.7 percent - down two percent, while Via had .2 percent of the market. Sales of Atom chips meant "notable ...

4. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... of total revenue. Sales of chipsets designed for Intel- based desktop and notebook PCs were up 33 percent sequentially. However, sales of chipsets for AMD desktop PCs were down 27 percent due to an AMD ...

5. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... processors. In the long term it will be hard for Nvidia to sell chipsets and it can't turn to AMD because that owns ATI. Freedman reasons that if Nvidia can't sell parts to go with Intel or AMD processors ...

6. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 15 October 2009

   Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported its third quarter results. It made a profit. Although on paper it made a net loss of $128 million, things are on the up.Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported its ...

7. Intel reverses semiconductor recession

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   CMOS giant Intel turned in its third quarter results and reported it had a gross margin of 58 percent.CMOS* giant Intel turned in its third quarter results and reported it had a gross margin of 58 percent. ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... 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 ...

9. Is Intel's Atom really the future?

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   ... even seem to care about a British company called ARM and a pretty  important firm called Qualcomm, nor any of the competition.But the Atom costs quite a bit less than $50, and we believe AMD was right ...

10. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ...  change Intel 80.6% 79.1% 79.2% 1.5% 1.4% AMD  ...

11. Server sales continue to plummet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... waiting for the latest AMD Istanbul and Intel Nehalem server CPUs to ship.  ...

12. Chip market rebounds in Q2, but IDC cautious on Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    ... percent from 1Q09 to 2Q09. AMD's overall PC processor shipments increased 1.8 percent in the same period. Intel's shipments of Atom netbook chips was up 34 percent in 2Q09 compared to 1Q09. IDC says ...

13. AMD loses $330 million in second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    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 ...

14. Dell suffers catastrophic profit fall

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    ... quarter on quarter, year on year. Earlier this week, figures from IDC showed that the lucrative X86 server market is flagging. Both Intel and AMD have warned that sales to corporations and large organizations ...

15. Worldwide server revenues slump by 25 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    ... on year fall. Microsoft holds 37.3 percent of server software revenue. Linux servers represented 13.8 percent and fell by 24.8 percent year on year to $1.4 billion. The bad news for both Intel and AMD ...

16. Intel Atom sales slumped in first quarter

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ... the same period.  The first quarter is not generally a good quarter for CPU sales anyway. According to IDC, Intel held 77.3 percent share in Q1 2009 - losing 4.7 percent, while AMD held 22.3 percent, ...

17. Nvidia pins hopes on workstation market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    ... chip companies such as AMD have been saying - enterprises are not dipping into their pockets while the economic meltdown continues to give the world the jitters. While Nvidia's chipset business is by ...

18. Sun fails to shine for Sun Microsystems

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... But that's in line with statements made by AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer, who said in a financial conference call recently that few corporations and large organisations are prepared to spend on server systems right ...

19. Golden Goose continues to lay Microsoft eggs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 24 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

20. AMD revenue flatlines

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 April 2009

    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 ...

21. Intel’s Atom damages AMD’s CPU market share

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... Atom processor, the company earned a huge jump in market share during the year, while AMD lost nearly 25% of its 2007 share, according to iSuppli. El Segundo (CA) – Each chip maker has basically the ...

22. Chipset battleground: Nvidia accuses Intel of breach of contract

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    ... leading chipsets and graphics cards. In 2005 and early 2006, Nvidia was entirely focused on the AMD platform, which gave the green team an huge advantage over Intel, which at the time was caught in a trap ...

23. Intel declares war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... also has profound effect on other players – AMD, Qualcomm (Snapdragon), Nvidia, TI, and even Marvel to whom Intel sold off its own ARM-based processor (XScale). A win-win for Intel and TSMC Intel gets ...

24. AMD divorces itself, loses the house

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    Today, AMD announced it has closed its Asset Smart transaction, which will split the company into a foundry company and a chip developer, both separate entities. Former CEO and chairman of the board, ...

25. AMD spins off semiconductor manufacturing company

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    On Wednesday, AMD announced that after a delay caused by an insufficient number of voters to constitute a quorum for doing business, its shareholders were finally able to hold a vote in Austin, Texas. ...

26. Intel gains market share in a difficult CPU market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... impacting the balance of processor shipments: Intel is posting gains, while AMD has trouble maintaining its share. Chicago (IL) – Worldwide PC processor shipments accelerated their decline in the fourth ...

27. Up next for Apple TV: Networked cable television

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... the technology, including AMD, Cisco, Intel, Sony and Toshiba. The software platform enables cable's interactive services to be deployed across different devices via set-top boxes or enabled digital TVs ...

28. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... had no way out, another lifeline came out of nowhere. Most significantly, there was an investment from AMD and Intel settled a patent infringement suit filed by Transmeta for $150 million in early ...

29. AMD posts $1.42 billion loss on $1.16 billion revenue in Q4'2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

      AMD reported Q4'2008 revenue of $1.162 billion, which was down 35% over Q3 and down 33% from Q4'2007. AMD reported a net loss of $1.424 billion, or $2.34 per share. For the year ended, AMD had annual ...

30. AMD to lay off 1100, reduce salaries company-wide

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 January 2009

      AMD announced today it will cut 1100 jobs and trim salaries in an attempt to "navigate the turbulent economic conditions." AMD will release its financial data on January 22, 2009 at 5:00pm EST. Sunnyvale ...

31. AMD lays off more people, expects additional ATI charge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

      AMD announced that it laid off more people than previously anticipated in an effort to get closer to a breakeven point. The company also expects another impairment charge related to the $5.4 billion acquisition. ...

32. Intel, AMD and Nvidia may see even deeper revenues declines in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

    Although Intel and AMD both cut their fourth quarter 2008 revenues forecasts recently, with market demand remaining weak, market watchers believe the two CPU makers' performance may be even worse ...

33. Semiconductor industry facing double-digit declines in Q4, into Q1'09

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... the $10+ billion originally forecast. Today, AMD, the world's 10th largest semiconductor company in 2007, announced its revenues would be down nearly twice as much (percentage-wise) as Intel's. Other ...

34. AMD expects big revenue decline in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

      Some say that it would have been a miracle if AMD could have met its fourth quarter revenue guidance, which was confirmed by the company as recently as November 14. Today, the company said that ...

35. AMD backs forecast after Intel warns

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 14 November 2008

    ... both companies, which make virtually all the microchip processors for computers, rose along with the broader market and AMD acting Chief Financial Officer Robert Rivet called the economic downturn "a storm ...

36. Analysts cut target for Intel stock, 2009 revenue

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... down 12% sequentially, “would be the worst QoQ change since Q1 2006 [when Intel was exposed to the success of AMD’s processors] and the second worst since Q1 2001 [when the dotcom bubble began to burst].” ...

37. Silicon Valley’s cash voted: Obama received lion’s share of donations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 November 2008

    ... $1,434,719 while John McCain received only $267,041. Only three companies in the ranking -  AMD, Robert Half International and Sanmina-SCI – gave more to the Republican candidate than to the Democrat. ...

38. Atom pushes Intel past 87% market share mark for mobile PCs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 02 November 2008

    ... while AMD finished with 11.5%, a loss of 1.1 points. VIA posted 1.2%, a gain of 0.3 points. The green team looks much better in the server segment, in which the “fixed” Barcelona quad-core CPUs are showing ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... 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.  ...

40. AMD cuts loss to $67 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 16 October 2008

    AMD has made substantial progress to get back in to the black. The company reported a net loss of $67 million on revenue of $1.78 billion for Q3 2008. The company reported a loss of $1.2 billion for ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

      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 ...

42. Linus Torvalds’ old company up for sale

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 24 September 2008

    ... in early 2000, but never got real traction in the micro-processor market – partly because it lacked the necessary credibility and partly because it was out-marketed by Intel and AMD. The company introduced ...

43. AMD sheds weight, sells DTV business to Broadcom

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 25 August 2008

      AMD today announced that it has sold its digital TV business in a move the company announced about three months ago. Aimed to reduce operating cost, products including the Xilleon processors as ...

44. AMD on track to report a profit for Q3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

      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 ...

45. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 15 August 2008

    ... 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, ...

46. AMD’s server and workstation comeback

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 13 August 2008

      Analyst Opinion - This week I have been spending some time with AMD listening to an update of their workstation and server roadmap.  AMD’s message: We are healthy and we are executing once ...

47. Nvidia takes a big hit in the second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

      The replacement of faulty graphics chips as well as a much stronger than expected AMD/ATI pushed Nvidia deep into the red during the second quarter. The company reported a revenue decline of 23% ...

48. Nvidia touts physics, but financial trouble ahead

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

    ... the PhysX of your hardware, you can now simply download Nvidia’s first “GeForce Power Pack”, which is promoted as a promotion package for Nvidia graphics cards. The competition between Nvidia’s and AMD’s ...

49. Prediction: Ncomputing is the next Google

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 28 July 2008

    ... manufacturer will lose a revenue opportunity of six network computers. As a side note, Dukker said that Ncomputing is working with AMD to deploy host PCs. He told us that AMD concluded that there is no ...

50. A 1-2-3-4 plan for AMD to beat Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 18 July 2008

      Analyst Opinion - Intel had a surprisingly strong quarter. AMD went the other direction and is now taking a number of actions that probably should have come right after the ATI merger.   ...