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1. 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 ...

2. 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" ...

3. 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 ...

4. AMD launches indigenous server platform

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   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 ...

5. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 30 August 2009

   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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. AMD launches 6-core Istanbul processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 01 June 2009

   AMD has announced the immediate availability of its 6 core Istanbul processor. AMD has announced the immediate availability of its 6 core Istanbul processor. We reported this here, last week. According ...

8. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Thursday, 07 May 2009

   Opinion – AMD has its hands full to counter Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor, which is considered the highest performing server processor these days. Intel’s chip has some obvious weaknesses which AMD could ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 22 April 2009

   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 ...

10. Intel and AMD fail to resolve x86 cross-license dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    Negotiations between AMD and Intel over a 2001 x86 cross-license agreement broke down completely yesterday. The dispute over the recent division of AMD into a fabless semiconductor company and GlobalFoundries, ...

11. AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    The journey from Barcelona to Shanghai to Istanbul is 11,057 miles as the crow flies. Still, AMD has recently demoed a video showing that the migration across these three destinations takes only a few ...

12. AMD to make x86 cross-license public, if Intel drops secrecy hold on anti-trust evidence

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    Yesterday, Intel offered AMD the option of making the terms of the x86 cross-licensing deal public. AMD agreed, but with one caveat of their own: They want Intel to lift the secrecy demand on all antitrust ...

13. Intel to pull x86 cross-licensing agreement with AMD in 60 days

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    AMD filed a Form 8-K today with the SEC stating Intel notified the company of plans to pull its 2001 cross-licensing agreement for x86-related patents within the next 60 days unless the smaller chipmaker ...

14. The coming ARM vs. Intel PC battle

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 26 February 2009

    ... at least some of the opportunity for ARM is Intel's pricing policy for Atom, which is seen as too restrictive by OEMs and is forcing them to seek alternatives. AMD has an Intel mobile based competitor ...

15. Red Hat and Microsoft play nice on virtualization

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... 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 ...

16. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... in AMD’s CES suite – a demo that was incredibly stunning, and yet scary at the same time. So, what was it? To show off the horsepower of its Dragon platform (Phenom II processor, 4000-series graphics), ...

17. AMD Shanghai: We are back!

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 November 2008

    ... 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 ...

18. AMD Shanghai: Is it enough?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    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 ...

19. AMD unleashes 45 nm Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

      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 ...

20. AMD sees its future in fusion

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

      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 ...

21. 6-core Intel ‘Dunnington’ could be released next week

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... which are multiple cores fashioned into one package.  While some detractors say this technology is less elegant than AMD’s monolithic processors, it has allowed Intel to get to market faster.  ...

22. Microsoft announces widely supported virtualization initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... in recent years with the addition of virtualization hardware into the x86 instruction set via technology extensions from AMD and Intel, such as Pacifica and Vanderpool respectively.  While not identical ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 03 September 2008

    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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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 ...

26. Intel phases out most Clovertown and Woodcrest processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 July 2008

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

      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 ...

28. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... 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.  ...

29. Can Singularity heal Microsoft’s Windows Vista wounds?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    ... of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, ...

30. Multiple: 2007 top ten lists

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 December 2007

    ... about the Doh! moments of science. Top Ten predictions for 2008 #10 - A new boss for AMD, and possibly a buyer. #9 - The 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA web goes free. #8 - Boredom with green computing issues begins ...

31. Microsoft’s Hyper-V to go head-to-head with VMware

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 13 December 2007

    ... emulation of hardware abilities. Intel’s Core 2 CPUs, and AMD’s Athlon X2 CPUs, both contain special hardware instructions which accelerate these features. Read more … Microsoft’s ...

32. UPDATE: Phoenix announces HyperSpace: Instant-on computing for the masses

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... version 1.0 has been designed to work with both Intel and AMD virtualization technology hardware.  It could arrive in notebooks as soon as 6 to 9 months from now.  Whether or not there will be ...

33. Microsoft officially withdraws remaining EU appeals in anti-trust case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2007

    ... that trend at the most recent IDF in San Francisco.  Sun Microsystems, a long proponent of open-source, has re-doubled its efforts.  AMD has announced similiarly.  And several components ...

34. Intel gives 51xx Woodcrest Xeons a new stepping

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 19 October 2007

    ... sampling on October 10 with a mandatory acceptance required by November 21. Intel, AMD and all chip makers regularly roll out new stepping changes.  These often correct minor core issues, introduce ...

35. AMD gets B2 stepping, could see 3.0 GHz Barcelonas very soon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 03 October 2007

    It's being published that Barcelona may see 3.0 GHz early next year, if not by the end of this year.  The reason?  AMD is moving to its B2 stepping which, according to a few websites, may ...

36. IDF Day 1: Penryn showcased, Nehalem revealed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 18 September 2007

    ... He then held up a wafer showing wide, native quad-core Nehalems that were in use. Intel representatives made sure that they weren't using the AMD term “native quad-core” when describing ...

37. The AMD Barcelona back story

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    Analyst Opinion – We have covered the launch of AMD's quad-core Opteron CPU extensively and talked about the good and the bad of the product introduction. What we haven't talked about are ...

38. TG Daily Coverage: AMD's Barcelona launch event

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    On September 10, AMD held its biggest ever launch event for Barcelona at The Presidio in San Francisco at 6:30pm PDT. On hand for the 1.5 hour event were several top executives and partners to AMD, all ...

39. UPDATE: AMD's website paints Barcelona performance pictures not seen in the real world

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    AMD's website has posted some benchmark numbers for Barcelona. Does the picture they paint stand up to what the real-world is seeing? Indianapolis (IN) - If you visit AMD's website and look at ...

40. Intel announces Tigerton Xeon MP processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 05 September 2007

    Five days ahead of the launch of AMD's Barcelona processor, Intel today announced its 65 nm Xeon 7300/7200 series, the latest and final product based on the company's Core microarchitecture.  ...

41. Intel: Caneland turning AMD's server momentum around

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 September 2007

    Intel is gearing up to launch its Xeon 7300 processor, the last piece of its Core micro-architecture strategy. It's a critical product that is designed to attack AMD in a market that is still dominated ...

42. Background: Inside Intel's Tera-scale project

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 31 August 2007

    ... AMD has described for its upcoming Fusion processor. For example, Bautista told us that GPU logic could be created within a node.  The same goes for massively parallel floating point units such as ...

43. Barcelona sports a new green logo

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 August 2007

    Barcelona is AMD's latest core redesign with internal changes to achieve greater compute parity with Intel's Core 2 architecture. London (England) - The Inquirer has posted a potential preview ...

44. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored - Part 2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 August 2007

    ... is that we currently have two disparate technologies moving forward in x86 space, AMD-V and Intel VT.   These technologies do the same basic thing, but they are not compatible.  Neither do they ...

45. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    ... 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 ...

46. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... Apple, Intel, LG, National Semiconductor, Samsung, Silicon Image Agilent, AMD, Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Molex, NVIDIA, Philips, Samsung, several others. Officially supported by VESA ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 July 2007

    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 ...

48. Update 1: AMD gets more aggressive, announces next-gen CPU cores

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 July 2007

    There are very few options for AMD other than moving into the offense these days: The company’s chief technology officer today revealed at a meeting with analysts more details about the first Fusion ...

49. AMD to double memory capacity in server applications

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 July 2007

    AMD has come up with a new technology that will allow the company to install 16 memory modules per CPU socket – instead of only 8 that are used with Opteron CPUs today. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 17 June 2007

    ... 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 ...