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1. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Strides'r'us The chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has claimed that the spun-off division that makes its microprocessors will outpace Intel in the foreseeable future. Joe Macri ...

2. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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 ...

3. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... Apple with Windows 7 AMD joins Windows 7 launch party  ...

4. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Lone Star Briefings Death to SysMark, terminate 3DmarkAMD is pushing its Vision concept for all that it’s worth and has concluded that in an age when notebooks are all pervasive, the metrics used in the ...

5. Chinese foundry violated Taiwanese secrets

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... said that Chartered Semiconductor, which is to merge with AMD foundry spin off Global Foundries, will become the second biggest foundry in the world, and plans to expand its production in its fabs in Singapore ...

6. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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 ...

7. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... processors. In the long term it will be hard for Nvidia to sell chipsets and it can't turn to AMD because that owns ATI. Freedman reasons that if Nvidia can't sell parts to go with Intel or AMD processors ...

8. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Lone Star Briefings Rick Bergman, general manager of AMD’s product group waxed long about the Fusion family of products today. Rick Bergman, general manager of AMD’s product group waxed long about the ...

9. 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 ...

10. AMD calls for more realistic notebook benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

11. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

12. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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. ...

13. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... has promised to get the problem fixed during the current quarter.Customers using TSMC's process are AMD-ATI and Nvidia, said Digitimes, and that may well have an impact on shipping products such as the ...

14. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

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

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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, ...

16. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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, ...

17. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... stupid, we'll point it out. When it does something good, we might even praise them a bit. And so it is that, unlike most IT sites, we don't have a news agenda. We're not pro Intel or AMD, for Microsoft ...

18. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

19. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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" ...

20. 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 ...

21. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

22. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

23. Intel reverses semiconductor recession

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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. ...

24. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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 ...

27. ARM, Globalfoundries sign strategic partnership

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

31. ARM confirms it's chatting to GlobalFoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    As we exclusively reported last week, ARM and AMD spin off GlobalFoundries are in deep congress over cooperating on semiconductor production.As we exclusively reported last week, ARM and AMD spin off GlobalFoundries ...

32. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

33. 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 ...

34. LucidLogix boosts GPU gaming with Hydra 200 parallel processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... on it until we do," the spokesperson confirmed. "We thoroughly test our SLI solutions to be sure our products 'just work' and our customers have a great experience." Similarly, AMD was unable to comment ...

35. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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 ...

36. Intel will soon have real reasons to fear ARM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... ARM is likely to strike a strategic deal with GlobalFoundries during the next week or so. GlobalFoundries, of course, is the spun off semiconductor fabrication division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ...

37. Apple plus graphics gurus = semiconductor mystery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

38. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

39. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ATI has introduced its long-awaited Radeon HD 5800 GPU series. The 5800 - which is AMD's first DirectX 11 GPU - supports Eyefinity Technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11. ATI has introduced its long-awaited ...

40. Is Intel's Atom really the future?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... even seem to care about a British company called ARM and a pretty  important firm called Qualcomm, nor any of the competition.But the Atom costs quite a bit less than $50, and we believe AMD was right ...

41. AMD bullish about server market

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    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 ...

42. Intel's Otellini categorically denies EU antitrust allegations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

43. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel does. Two years ago Intel introduced the world's first 45 nanometer process, and to date the competition - that is to say AMD - has shipped zero. 32 nanometers is here now and makes it possible to ...

44. AMD launches indigenous server platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

45. 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

47. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Leopard Nvidia touts CUDA-enabled GPUs for Snow Leopard Gray screen of death hits Snow Leopard AMD touts benefits of OpenCL and Snow Leopard Apple Snow Leopard screws OS X apps Snow Leopard security ...

48. 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 ...

49. Consumer notebooks save PC bacon

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...