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1. 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 ...

2. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Convictions have not "wavered" Intel has agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion to settle a number of anti-trust and patent cross-licensing disputes. However, the Santa Clara-based company continues to insist ...

3. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Analysis: Broad agreement to establish industry ground rules Updated: God alone knows how much lawyers have benefited from the latest spat between AMD and Intel. Today the two companies announced a settlement ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. AMD showcases Eyefinity multi-display technology

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 10 September 2009

   AMD showcased its Eyefinity multi-display technology during a media event on the USS Hornet in Alameda, California. Eyefinity - which is powered by a single, next-generation ATI graphics card - allows ...

7. AMD touts benefits of OpenCL and Snow Leopard

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 01 September 2009

   AMD has told TG Daily that its ATI Radeon HD 4800 series "complements" Snow Leopard's fully compliant OpenCL Version 1.0 implementation. According to spokesperson Gary Silcott, OpenCL is a key enabler ...

8. 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.  ...

9. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 04 August 2009

   ... joined the WebGL working group, including AMD, Ericsson, Google, Mozilla, Nvidia and Opera. Participants are currently working to define a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 that will enable rich 3D graphics ...

10. Nvidia claims first with ray tracing engine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... 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 ...

11. Wind River: Intel is aiming another big gun at Apple, ARM

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    ... leader in embedded and communications devices, and Intel is the newcomer. Intel artillery is in position, the target is all over the place, but the defense is much stronger than what AMD had to offer a ...

12. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

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

13. Oracle-Sun: A glass half full

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 20 April 2009

    ... and may also signal the death knell for the Sparc processor (to the benefit of Intel and AMD). So the winner in this event is clearly Oracle, but Sun wins as well since it would have floundered without ...

14. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    ... This kind of performance could mean the beginning of the end to idea of a netbook or even a small Notebook priced over $1000.     Let's talk about what the DV2 this week, what it means to AMD, ...

15. Nvidia launches mysterious new GTX 275

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... 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 ...

18. UPDATED: The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... n/a 038 rosemount.com 10/27/86 n/a 039 vortex.com 10/27/86 502710 040 alcoa.com 11/05/86 104909 041 gte.com 11/05/86 n/a 042 adobe.com 11/17/86 56 043 amd.com 11/17/86 2001 044 das.com 11/17/86 n/a 045 ...

19. Microsoft working on Bob 2.0? Meet Laura the talking head

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    I'm not sure how to write this story, so I'll just give you the details. Microsoft is working on a virtual talking head (with only a face and neck) which appears on your PC screen and serves as your personal ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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), ...

22. Nehalem: Intel gives the industry exactly what's needed

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    ... stone necessary to get from here to there (not just Sandy Bridge or Larrabee, but far beyond). Nothing AMD has today competes with Intel's highest end offering in any measurable way, at least not ...

23. AMD co-founder Ed Turney dies at 79

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    The co-founder of chip manufacturing company AMD, who was responsible for building the company’s first sales team, died on Wednesday in Cupertino California at the age of 79. Mr. Turney’s Brother George ...

24. OS X Snow Leopard: It’s all about speed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... GPU power Snow Leopard will support OpenCL (Open Computing Language) that can unleash all those giga- and teraflops locked up in GPUs and provide them for general-purpose computing. AMD and Nvidia are ...

25. A graphics card just for Photoshop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

    ... recent software.     Both Nvidia and AMD are waiting for compelling GPGPU applications, software than takes advantage of their GPU architectures to achieve visible levels of acceleration ...

26. Acer rolls out $680 triple-core Blu-ray PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 October 2008

    ... new desktop PC that lacks a monitor, but includes a triple-core CPU, 4 GB of memory and a Blu-ray drive. Also, Acer’s Emachines unit is first out the gate with a PC that integrates AMD’s answer to Intel’s ...

27. AMD launches $40 graphics cards assault against Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

      AMD is completing the rollout of its first-generation 4000-series of GPUs with two new entry-level offerings that aim at the growing group of computer users who are upgrading their integrated ...

28. First Look: Photoshop CS4 with GPU acceleration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 22 September 2008

    ... image files. Combine this feature with 64-bit support and lots of RAM and you could see dramatic performance improvements beyond a factor of 10. Adobe, by the way, said that both AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphic ...

29. Intel launches McCreary vPro platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 22 September 2008

    ...  All new features are available as part of Intel’s new Desktop Board DQ45CB is for standard-sized PCs and the Intel Desktop Board DQ45EK is for small- form-factor systems.   Like AMD before, Intel ...

30. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ... Transmeta felt it, AMD felt it and ARM may have to rethink its business approach as well. If market trends shift, for example to new chip design requirements that impact performance and power consumption, ...

31. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ...  AMD Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA T10P "Tesla" Clearspeed CSX700 Tilera Tile64 Available? Yes Yes Yes Yes ...

32. NVISION: Nvidia's quest for second place

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 27 August 2008

    ... AMD plays very conservatively generally leveraging partners like Microsoft who often have their own agendas.  Nvidia is taking a much more aggressive path and while the press room I’m writing this ...

33. Nvidia GPUs approach 1.5 PFlops in Folding@Home project

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

    ... (3677 processors). At least in comparison with ATI/AMD, Nvidia’s advantage is currently based solely on the sheer number of GPUs on the network. Broken down to each unit, both Nvidia and ATI processors ...

34. 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 ...

35. Nvidia demonstrates interactive real-time ray-tracer

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

      Ray-tracing is one of the big topics gamers and graphics enthusiasts should pay special attention to these days. AMD already demonstrated Transformers and Ruby Ray-traced demos using pre-rendered ...

36. 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, ...

37. IDF Fall 2008: Intel un-retires Craig Barrett, AMD sets up anti-IDF camp

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

    ... successor of the Core 2 Duo and its derivates that were introduced in July of 2006 and helped Intel to regain the processor performance crown from AMD. The new architecture, which initially will be available ...

38. Larrabee, CUDA and the quest for the free lunch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 05 August 2008

    ... a choice (we leave ATI’s stream processors out of consideration since AMD still has work to do to create a mainstream appeal for its stream processor cards, work on its software platform and promote its ...

39. Greener than an Apple: Cherrypal’s $250 PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 July 2008

    ... those three cores – it is a chip that can’t be compared to any Intel or AMD CPU, as it was originally developed to run devices such high-end navigation systems in cars. Other specs include 256 MB DDR2 ...

40. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 July 2008

      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. ...

41. Rumors of AMD CEO departure gain traction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 11 July 2008

      It is earnings season again and we are expecting both Intel and AMD to publish their second quarter results. Neither company released an unusual heads-up before the release, which leads us to ...

42. Nvidia expected to offer DirectX 10.1 GPU in Q1 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 July 2008

      Nvidia so far declined to provide any information if and when the company will consider support the DirectX 10.1 API in its GPUs, a technology that is integrated AMD’s Radeon cards for some time ...

43. Nvidia: Graphics is dead? Yeah right.

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

    ... r’Us One of the more revealing battles we will see is physics on PCs going forward.  AMD/ATI actually went and licensed their physics technology from Havok, which is owned by Intel.  In terms ...

44. Do we really need Cinema 2.0?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

      Opinion – AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower hidden in the company’s graphics card. A second generation cinema, could the result, merging convincing cinematic digital ...

45. Via launches Nano processor, carves out CPU niche

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 May 2008

    ... over the C7 CPU and Via continues to its strategy to be different than AMD and Via by offering a product that is difficult to compare to potential rivals. Beijing (China) – Just in time for the opening ...

46. 200 million pages and counting: AMD adds to the tally of accusations against Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 May 2008

      The legal battle between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel has become more contentious, as AMD has added to its list of allegations filed against the rival chip-maker. Sunnyvale (CA) - The legal ...

47. AMD aims to increase desktop processor sales with business platform pitch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 27 April 2008

    ... while AMD may be trailing this trend a bit, it is on the same path. Of course, this means that the desktop business units have to get more creative in pitching their products: Just like Intel, AMD is ...

48. Intel drops second quad-core CPU into the mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

      Intel’s processor price sheet is one sign of the state of the competition with AMD. Even though we don’t know what processors go for behind closed doors, Intel’s official price sheet has been ...

49. Electronic Arts extends Take-Two purchase offer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 18 April 2008

    ... and it also bought out the number one mobile game studio at the time, Jamdat. ...

50. Technology bias: Can you avoid it?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 18 April 2008

    ... 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 ...