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1. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   $1.25 billion should keep the wolf from the door for a bit AMD says it plans to reduce its level of debt by $1.4 billion, using a large wedge of the $1.25 billion it received from Intel in exchange for ...

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. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

6. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

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

7. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... 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 ...

8. 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" ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. Is Intel's Atom really the future?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. Chip market rebounds in Q2, but IDC cautious on Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    ... percent from 1Q09 to 2Q09. AMD's overall PC processor shipments increased 1.8 percent in the same period. Intel's shipments of Atom netbook chips was up 34 percent in 2Q09 compared to 1Q09. IDC says ...

15. "Intel's" TSMC declares war on "AMD's" Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    The Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) told reporters that he expected to triumph in a protracted and bloody war with GlobalFoundries. The septuagenarian compared himself to Stalin. ...

16. 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 ...

17. Intel makes loss because of Europe. Really.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... has done a smart thing by absorbing the EU fine. It will be profitable quarter on quarter as time goes on, as it claws back the money. We look forward to AMD's results, which will come out  real ...

18. Global Foundries wants firms to delay moving to larger wafers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    AMD spinoff Global Foundries has issued a call for the semiconductor industry to get the most out of 300mm silicon wafers before jumping to 450mm.AMD spinoff Global Foundries has issued a call for the ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. Intel and AMD may be radically changing the future of the PC

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    Analyst Opinion - We had a major reorganization at AMD last week that should not only make them more efficient. It may also make them the leading change agent in the server space as we move to a more cloud-based ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    ... find the perfect computer for more than 10 years and, finally, was certain I had found the best (note: I don’t say “perfect”) system last year: The HP Mini. Now AMD tells me there this a better option ...

26. AMD pushes Phenom II to 3.2 GHz, you can push it further

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 23 April 2009

    It seems that the excitement about new and ever faster processors has subsided quite a bit in recent years, but if you are looking for a faster processor for your system, then here’s an update: AMD ...

27. 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 ...

28. Intel: 1 million Nehalems shipped, 32 nm Westmere pulled in

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 17 April 2009

    ... machine. So that gives you some idea of the slope of this product.” And that “slope” refers to the positioning of the technology as a premium product. Intel knows that AMD can’t touch Nehalem at this ...

29. 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, ...

30. 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 ...

31. 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 ...

32. Clara County: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 22 March 2009

    ... Amdrose -- two rival semiconductor manufacturers, are actually engaged in a bit of dramatic rivalry, in Clara County: x86 cross-license dispute. ...

33. 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 ...

34. Lies, damn lies, and energy benchmarks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... more granular, the results can’t be trusted. AMD’s Pat Moorhead has posted a detailed comparison of just how (in)accurate the cell phone guys are.  I still think granularity is good though, ...

35. 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 ...

36. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... the good news was that we saw GPGPU acceleration in a commercial application, giving it more horsepower to deal with huge images. Both AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphic cards provide Adobe with acceleration through ...

37. 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 ...

38. The problem with 3D: Where it works and where it does not

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

    ... itself. The ads I was most looking forward to were the 3D ads heavily sponsored by Intel and DreamWorks. It was a good catch for Intel, because HP, DreamWorks, and AMD used to be the team of record ...

39. UPDATED: AMD never did hold the highest 3DMark record

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

      Opinion - An Intel employee and well-known overclocker contacted TG Daily to point out that AMD actually never did hold the 3DMark record. FutureMark's website shows the 45474 3DMark AMD machine result ...

40. 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), ...

41. It's time to dump soft limitations

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 02 January 2009

    ... Celeron 220, or AMD Geode LX, Athlon (2650E and Sempron 210U), or VIA C7-M ULV, Neon (U2300, U2400 and U2500). Note: None of these are dual-core CPUs, though several of them are well over 1 GHz. 5) Netbook ...

42. 2009: Year of mergers, platform changes and conservation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 26 December 2008

    ... 2009 netbooks will actually have graphics by Nvidia or AMD's ATI division as casual gaming and media consumption quickly moves to this platform. By the end of the year, a number of them may outperform ...

43. Nvidia updates CUDA, adds Tesla support for Windows Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 21 December 2008

    ... of improvements to OpenGL interoperability” as well as “support for recent releases of Linux including Fedora9, OpenSuse 11 and Ubuntu 8.04.”   Nvidia, like AMD, recently announced that developers ...

44. Apple gets official acceleration spec for Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 December 2008

    ... AMD, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung and Texas Instruments.  “We ...

45. Computers: Changing from power to experience

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    ... largest and most powerful technology companies. Then we had the Intel launch of Core I7 and the launch of AMD's Shanghai platform, both of which exceeded expectations. I exited last week receiving a ...

46. Intel unleashes Core i7, beats itself

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    ... already sizeable lead over AMD. Santa Clara (CA) – Following a first wave of reviews of the Core i7 processor, still mainly known under its code-name Nehalem, Intel is officially introducing its next-generation ...

47. AMD unlikely to gain ground on Intel at 32 nm. Does it matter?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 November 2008

      Opinion – AMD’s 2008 Financial Analyst Day, held yesterday, saw a much more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate, there is a fantastic graphics chip lineup, a new ...

48. 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 ...

49. AMD’s Atom rival offered in $430 notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 31 October 2008

      AMD does not have a dedicated chip that would be able to aim at all the market segments addressed by Intel’s Atom processor. Offering an aging entry-level processor to compete in the "Ultra-Value-Client" ...

50. AMD surrenders more CPU market share to Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 24 October 2008

      AMD has not yet found an effective way to slow its market share decline in the x86 CPU market. According to new market estimates, AMD currently has a 17.7% share, while Intel is at 81.2%. Chicago ...