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1. AMD: The netbook category is all a bit of a blur

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Lone Star Briefings While AMD rolled out its future strategy for notebooks, the conversation turned to categories of PCs. While AMD rolled out its future strategy for notebooks, the conversation turned ...

2. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Galleon Group hedge fund, IBM’s Robert Moffat - widely tipped to become CEO - Rajiv Goel, head of Intel’s venture capital division, and Anil Kumar, an advisor to AMD, were among senior directors arrested ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

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   It’s an unwritten rule of marketing that when your competition is holding a mega event, you should try to get some publicity off the back of it. Hence we saw AMD dragging Intel Developer Forum delegates ...

6. Windows xpPhone thinks its a PC

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... xpPhone, from In Technology Group, includes Wifi, GPS and Bluetooth. It has a 4.8-inch touch screen. A USB port and VGA-out port allow it to connect to external devices. It's based around an AMD Super ...

7. 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 ...

8. We will be faster than ATI, claims Nvidia

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Nvidia thinks that its new cards are more powerful that similar efforts by ATI (AMD).Nvidia thinks that its new cards are more powerful that similar efforts by ATI (AMD). . Analysts think that ATI has ...

9. AMD aims to cut greenhouse gases by a third

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Chipmaker AMD says it is working toward reducing greenhouse gas  emissions by 33 percent by the end of 2010. The company says it has already reduced emissions by approximately 20 percent including ...

10. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Quicklogic, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Google, T Mobile, HTC, Apple, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Philips, LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, ...

11. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

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    AMD tells us that its ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics processors have found a home in more than half of today's discrete graphics notebooks. Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD tells us that its ATI Mobility ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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. 32 nanometer technology gets a run through

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... lithography, double patterning and even custom illumination.Kanter discusses IBM and AMD's work on a HKMG 45 nanometer process using silicon on insulator (SOI) which probably will never come to pass. Instead ...

14. Nvidia claims first with ray tracing engine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Siggraph graphics expedition starts - earlier today AMD announced its ATI stuff will support OpenGL 3.1, and ultimately OpenGL 3.2. The family of Nvidia engines include the OptiX engine for real time ...

15. AMD says it will support OpenGL3.1, Open GL3.2

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    Chip firm AMD said it has committed to OpenGL 3.1X support for its ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators.Chip firm AMD said it has committed to OpenGL 3.1X support for its ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators. ...

16. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter of 2009 and AMD appears to rule the roost.The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter ...

17. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel, Nvidia and AMD-ATI will upset the status quo. Growth will come in 2010 because of Microsoft and Apple's new operating systems. And the graphics processing unit (GPU) will become a seriously ...

18. AMD releases a processor you can’t buy

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    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 ...

19. Globalfoundries starts work on NY Fab

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    Globalfoundries has started the legal process to establish Fab 2 at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in New York State. Sunnyvale, (CA) - Globalfoundries has started the legal process to establish Fab ...

20. AMD's Atom smasher - notebooks not netbooks and not yet

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    AMD says it is developing a netbook platform that features lower-power, smaller-size, better functionality and a lower price than Intel's Atom - but not until next year when the first samples will ship. ...

21. AMD promises notebook HDTV through USB stick

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    AMD has launched its ATI Theater HD 750 PC TV chip offering HDTV on desktop and notebook PCs.Taipei, Taiwan - AMD has launched its ATI Theater HD 750 PC TV chip offering HDTV on desktop and notebook PCs. ...

22. AMD's Abu Dhabi backer eyes up Asian foundry

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The technology investment company owned by Abu Dhabi, and which baled out AMD by financing the Global Foundries spin off is looking to take a stake in Chartered Semiconductor.The technology investment ...

23. 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, ...

24. Via claims Dell server win

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... launch a new range of servers. Little Via, which also has a habit of naming its silicon after Old Testament prophets, reckons its little Nano chip is set to knock Intel and AMD off their perches in a ...

25. Intel just can't lose

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... a difference. That depends on whether AMD is strong enough to be able to compete fairly across all different areas of the CPU  business. And that's somewhat unlikely right now. Intel was first accused ...

26. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

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

27. Bartlett flees Freescale, joins Globalfoundries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD's spun-off foundry operation, Globalfoundries, has signed up Gregg Bartlett as senior veep for technology, research and development. AMD's spun-off foundry operation, Globalfoundries, has ...

28. 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 ...

29. 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 ...

30. Nvidia launches mysterious new GTX 275

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to AMD’s new graphics card launched today as well. GTX 275, who are you? Santa Clara (CA) – Nvidia today returned to the famous days of graphics card paper launches with the new GTX 275. Rarely have ...

31. UPDATE: Intel attacked over Xeon 5500's power-efficiency

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... scenario has been the case for some time and both Intel and AMD are stuck in a thermal power envelope that was defined back in 2006 – low power of 65 watts or less, a mid-range of around 80-100 watts ...

32. AMD: Intel is attempting to distract from anti-trust case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    According to the India-based IT Examiner website, AMD India VP of Sales and Marketing, Ramkumar Subramanian, has laid it out plainly. He says Intel's recent x86 cross-license dispute has less to do with ...

33. 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 ...

34. Intel declares war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

35. Nvidia may soon be in trouble, Intel CEO says

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... have to deal with Intel, but with AMD and its ATI graphics division as well.  ...

36. AMD steps up Folding@Home rivalry with Nvidia

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    AMD’s graphics team today released a new version of its Catalyst driver package, introducing Multi GPU support for the prestigious Folding@Home distributed computing project. Markham (ON) – AMD’s graphics ...

37. Intel pitches details about 32 nm Westmere CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... may remember that this idea was first pitched by AMD back in April of 2006 for the Fusion processor that was slated for a 2009 release back then. However, AMD recently canceled the 45 nm Fusion with Shrike ...

38. AMD targets consumer apps with new lidless BGA Sempron packaging

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD announced today the immediate availability of AMD Sempron 200U and 210U processors for embedded systems. The new CPUs come in a lidless Ball Grid Array (BGA) package which significantly reduces the ...

39. 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 ...

40. 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 ...

41. Study finds major computer virus threat

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... can be run in new ways resulting in potentially bad things. No practical defense against it The authors indicate that existing exploit counter-measures, such as the "No Execute" bit in AMD and ...

42. AMD surrenders more CPU market share to Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      AMD has not yet found an effective way to slow its market share decline in the x86 CPU market. According to new market estimates, AMD currently has a 17.7% share, while Intel is at 81.2%. Chicago ...

43. Nvidia GPU solder joints at a disadvantage over ATI, scientist says

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a new, apparently independent research report, that claims that eutectic solder bumps, which are used for example by AMD’s ATI unit, may live much longer than high-lead versions. Of course, switching ...

44. Diamond Multimedia says only 188 cards faulty, not thousands

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      This story has all the signs of becoming an entertaining soap opera for bystanders and a big mess for everyone affected by the events. Following a conversation yesterday and an article thereafter, ...

45. 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 ...

46. Taking Core to the Edge: Intel unveils 6-core Xeon CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      There is no doubt that the Core micro-architecture will have a special place in Intel’s history. Core reclaimed the performance crown from AMD, it put Intel on the power-efficiency track and it ...

47. 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 ...

48. Overclocking Nehalem “almost as good as having a second graphics card” - Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... proclaimed that the results from Turbo Boost and traditional will be “almost as good as having a second graphics card.”  Boy I bet AMD and Nvidia will love that comment. Piednoel told us later what ...

49. 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, ...

50. AMD split rumors accelerating

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Hector Ruiz’ time at the AMD as we know it today is coming to an end. Ruiz recently stepped down from his role as CEO, but kept his position as chairman of the board with the purpose of launching ...