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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. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... devices where available, to conserve battery life and deliver an exceptional video playback experience." According to AMD, Flash 10.1 harnesses ATI Stream technology to accelerate video playback and reduce ...

3. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Heroes of the HPC world AMD has released an HD video chronicling the exploits of Phenom II overclockers who managed to shatter the infamous 7GHz clock barrier. "This video depicts the herculean efforts ...

4. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   And announces Nehalem-EX Chip firm AMD is blowing its own trumpet by saying its Jaguar system is the world's supreme supercomputer. But AMD's new friend Intel is not going to take that lying down. It ...

5. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   2.3 petaflops of peak performance The AMD-powered "Jaguar" system has been dubbed the world's "supreme supercomputer" by the TOP500 organization.  The upgraded Cray XT5 - which is based in the Oak Ridge ...

6. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... Hackintoshes, AMD Fusion and Nvidia's Fermi. Analog joystick mouse WarMouse and OpenOffice have introduced an alternative multi-button pointing device. The $75 OpenOfficeMouse features 18 buttons, an ...

7. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   The graphics bone connected to the CPU zone At a reviewers’ day at the Lone Star facility in Austin TX last week, AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri waxed large on Fusion and the potential it has ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... bullied computer manufacturers and paid them money to stop them using X86 chips made by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Intel denies any wrongdoing. Cuomo’s office, in a statement, said that the rebates ...

11. AMD calls for more realistic notebook benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    Lone Star Briefings Chip firm AMD said here in Austin today that the current model of benchmarks for notebooks, on both speed and battery performance are fatally flawed. Chip firm AMD said here in Austin ...

12. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    Chipmaker AMD has dragged out several of its Phenom II X4 900 series CPUs for a long walk in a Berlin forest after which they will never be seen again. Chipmaker AMD has dragged out several of its Phenom ...

13. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... seem to have regressions when booting the AMD64 ubuntu live desktop CD on systems with multiple disks. "On one system, the "side by side" radio button only showed sdc."Erase" would allow choosing sda, ...

14. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    Hector Ruiz, AMD's former CEO and currently chairman of AMD spinoff Globalfoundries, has been named in the Galleon insider trading scandal that has so far seen six top executives arrested. Hector Ruiz, ...

15. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    AMD has congratulated Microsoft on the official launch of its long-awaited Windows 7 operating system. According to AMD spokesperson Margaret Lewis, the two industry heavyweights "closely collaborated" ...

16. 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 ...

17. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... battery and wireless connectivity options. The ProBook b-series notebooks use AMD microprocessors and HP claims an astonish improvement in battery life for up to eight hours and 15 minutes, and a performance ...

18. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... Stagnation and recession were global conditions. But in Silicon Valley unemployment was only 7.5 percent. At the time mid-size companies there like Intel, AMD, Apple, and countless others who have since ...

19. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology conference and it suddenly hit me that we are at the forefront of another massive change in the computer industry.   Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology ...

20. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... all resulted from an excessive focus by Intel on AMD as a competitor - and from a lack of top-level business sense. This seems to happen a lot. A dominant market vendor needs to grow the market ...

21. 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 ...

22. Consumer notebooks save PC bacon

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... and prevent erosion of prices. Jay Chou, a research analyst at IDC, said that while mininotebooks have hurt the margins of traditional notebooks, ultrathin notebooks using low voltage CPUs from both AMD ...

23. AMD introduces $100 quad-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    AMD has introduced a quad-core processor with a $100 price tag. The Athlon II X4 620 is based on 45nm processor architecture and fully optimized for Windows 7. San Francisco, Calif. AMD has introduced ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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  ...

26. Slideshow: AMD previews next-gen gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    As TG Daily previously reported, AMD showcased its next-generation technology during a recent media event on the USS Hornet in Alameda, California. A number of rigs, projectors, laptops, components and ...

27. AMD launches Tigris and Congo notebook platforms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    AMD has introduced a "mainstream" notebook platform designed to provide improved performance for multimedia applications and 3D gaming. Tigris - which has already been adopted by 8 OEMs - supports full ...

28. AMD unveils Vision technology for the masses

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    AMD has announced plans to simplify the PC selection process with its Vision technology brand. According to AMD CMO Nigel Dessau, Vision radically alters the traditional consumer model which tends to ...

29. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    Interview Chip firm AMD has integrated its portfolio of products and platforms and has a strategy aimed at targeting the tech generation rather than talking pure tech to people who don’t want to understand bits ...

30. AMD aims to cut greenhouse gases by a third

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    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 ...

31. Desktop PCs are not quite dead yet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 12 August 2009

    ... over. Components in a PC might have been exciting when AMD and Intel battled fiercely to clock and to overclock the CPU, but these machines have now truly become commodities and it's harder than ever ...

32. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    While there is some evidence that things are better in the semiconductor market last quarter than they were before, it’s unlikely that things will really take off until this time next year.While there ...

33. World + Dog licenses Nvidia SLI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... PC platforms, including the Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors, as well as those based on the AMD Phenom II CPU.  ...

34. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    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 ...

35. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    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 ...

36. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... 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 ...

37. Windows 7 faces an upgrade uphill struggle

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... Intel and AMD, who reported that corporations and large organizations were keeping a tight control on their purse strings with server chip shipments being particularly affected.When asked how IT departments ...

38. AMD releases a processor you can’t buy

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    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 ...

39. Gateway introduces high-definition netbook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    Gateway has introduced a high-definition netbook with an 11.6-inch display. The LT3100 - which weighs just 3.14 pounds - features an AMD Athlon 64 L110 processor, a full-size keyboard, multi-gesture ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... 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 ...

41. Centrino! Intel kills off platforms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... "platform" was actually a runaway success, and was closely identified with notebooks - much to the annoyance of chip rival AMD. But Intel got carried away by the success of Centrino and attempted to ...

42. Browser wars: When will the madness end?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... These were the golden days when Intel and AMD were vying for supremacy in terms of who hit the magical - and meaningless - milestone of producing the first 1GHz CPU. Opinion - A long time ago, in a galaxy ...

43. AMD promises notebook HDTV through USB stick

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    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. ...

44. 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 ...

45. 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 ...

46. CE3100: Intel squeezes yet another chip out of the old Dothan core

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... and selling chips to companies that integrate the CPU into their CE products. And this third try may be, in the end, the most conclusive way to success for Intel. Some readers may remember that AMD has ...

47. AMD aims for 45nm production by Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 22 May 2009

    Motherboard makers are claiming chipmaker AMD plans to move production of its desktop processors to a 45nm process later this year. Taipei, Taiwan - Motherboard makers are claiming chipmaker AMD plans ...

48. Tessera wins semi case against Moto, ATI et al

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 20 May 2009

    ... products which breach Tessera patents from stocks they hold in the USA. And Freescale, ATI Technologies - now AMD, and ST Microelectronics have been told  not to infringe two US patents, 6,433,419 ...

49. AMD to sponsor Chinese gaming conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 May 2009

    Chip firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is to sponsor the second China Game Developers Conference (CGDC). Chip firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is to sponsor the second China Game Developers Conference ...