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1. Otellini, Barrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Alleges fiduciary failures A case started in a Delaware district court alleging that senior executives at the Intel Corporation failed in their fiduciary duties to review policy on antitrust activities. ...

2. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Opinion Nothing's really changed When AMD and Intel held their journalist conference calls last week, the contrast between the two companies could not be greater. AMD talked as though the $1.25 billion ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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. ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 02 November 2009

   AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect. AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect. ...

10. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ...  Q2 09 Q-Q YoY YoY growth AMD 19.8%  ...

11. 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, ...

12. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... talking about redefining what's happening."A law suit could certainly redefine what's happening but as watchers of the continual litigation between Intel and AMD know, these kind of court cases take years ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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. ...

16. 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 ...

17. ARM, Globalfoundries sign strategic partnership

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    As reported here exclusively a couple of weeks ago, AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has definitely signed a deal with ARM. As reported here exclusively a couple of weeks ago, AMD spinoff Globalfoundries ...

18. 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    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 ...

20. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... market. As TG Daily reported, AMD recently released the (DX 11) Radeon HD 5800 GPU series, which supports Eyefinity Technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11. The 5800's debut prompted AMD's Rick Bergman ...

21. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 27 September 2009

    The word on the chip strasse is that Intel and AMD may well reach a settlement before the long-running civil case between the companies comes to court in spring 2010.The word on the chip strasse is ...

22. Apple plus graphics gurus = semiconductor mystery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 26 September 2009

    ... While its competition have suggested that it's got nothing much up its sleeves, sources suggest that's not so, and that AMD-ATI may well have something to fear from Nvidia during 2010. Nothing suggests ...

23. 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 ...

24. AMD bullish about server market

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    Chip firm AMD is holding an alternative event just a block away from the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street, briefing them about the stuff it makes.Chip firm AMD is holding ...

25. Intel's Otellini categorically denies EU antitrust allegations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... documents and emails which suggest that Intel had entered into arrangements to limit the number of AMD processors that its customers could buy. Otellini categorically denied that Intel had ever engaged ...

26. Intel's talking about my g-g-g-generation

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    ... the exhibition area at the show. Nature abhors a vacuum, and just chatting to two or three of the hacks it's clear that the vacuum is going to be filled by AMD briefings instead. The devil makes work ...

27. Abu Dhabi buys Chartered Semiconductor in Globalfoundries merger

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 06 September 2009

    ... is already the CEO of Globalfoundries. Chartered at one time acted as a spill over foundry for AMD, when the X86 company was short on capacity. Globalfoundries already has contracts to produce chips for ...

28. AMD, HP, others sued over teleconferencing patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ... breached a teleconfering patent. Teleconference Systems alleges that HP, Astrazeneca, the Dow Chemical Company, AMD, Dreamworks, Marriott International, and the American International Group breached the ...

29. 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 ...

30. 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 ...

31. Etre reaches a 20 year milestone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... the story of AMD's Jerry Sanders III and the yacht he and his friends resorted to just off the South of France.This year speakers at Etre will be SAP's Leo Apotheker, Eric Benhamou, Google's Wesley Chan, ...

32. 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 ...

33. 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 ...

34. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... for Huang, of course Intel is not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for its business to disappear. While most people positioned its Larrabee architecture originally as an alternative to ATI-AMD and ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    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. ...

36. Supermicro man gets probed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 31 May 2009

    ... piece, here. Wibbling over to AMD Zone, we discover that according to one Fuad Abazovic of that estate, Global Foundries - the spin off of AMD - is going to be too late to the party for 40 nanometer ...

37. 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 ...

38. US startup makes bid to capture memory market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    ... will tape out next year. Unity has 40 employees and is based in Silicon Valley. Rinerson himself has worked at both AMD and US memory company Micron.  ...

39. Intel may face civil charges in Europe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 18 May 2009

    ... and additionally offered computer manufacturers rebates for using Intel chips instead of AMD’s, the European Commission slapped the company with one of the largest ever antitrust fines. Intel of course, ...

40. Intel just can't lose

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    ... 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 ...

41. Applied makes loss for second time running

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... consecutive loss for its financial quarter. The company, which makes kit for companies like Intel, AMD and other chip companies, made a net loss of $255 million on sales of $1.02 billion. In the same ...

42. 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 ...

43. Windows 7 widows Windows XP

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    ... lines. Meaning that every time Intel designed a new microprocessor - or AMD for that matter - Microsoft felt compelled to create more software so that everything was just slow enough that eventually ...

44. Knives out at AMD as product groups fused together

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 06 May 2009

    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - now a fabless company because it spun off its microprocessor production - is shuffling senior suits around in a bid to integrate its CPU and graphics lines. But there ...

45. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    Globalfoundries, the spun-off manufacturing arm of AMD, provided a first glimpse at the plans of its 1.3 million square foot chip factory to be built at Luther Forest Technology Park in Saratoga County. ...

46. 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 ...

47. Bartlett flees Freescale, joins Globalfoundries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

      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 ...

48. 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 ...

49. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 April 2009

    Analysis – A conference call hosted by senior AMD executives has revealed that it’s far from dissatisfied with the future, although it remains unable to predict when things will get very much better.Analysis ...

50. 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 ...