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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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   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 ...

5. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 17 September 2009

   ... 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 ...

6. AMD releases a processor you can’t buy

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 30 June 2009

   AMD has released the mysterious Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, which is, according to the company, the most capable processor desktop CPU offered by the company. In fact, the CPU is so special ...

7. AMD releases graphics driver for Win 7

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 05 May 2009

   Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. Chip firm AMD said its Windows 7 graphics driver has received certification from Microsoft. The WHQL (Windows ...

8. AMD releases Radeon HD 4890 with 1.36 Teraflops

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   AMD today released the ATI Radeon HD 4890 with an 850 MHz core clock, memory clock at 976 MHz, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and a maximum board power of 190 watts on a 55nm process technology, with an idle power ...

9. AMD releases graphics toolset for gaming performance analysis

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 25 March 2009

   Today, AMD announced its GPU PerfStudio 2.0 performance analysis tool for games. Available as a free, closed beta program, the product was designed "to easily integrate with existing projects, and help ...

10. Intel releases graphics performance analyzer

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... CPUs (called IA-32 and Intel 64 (x86-64)) can be downloaded here. Note also that AMD today announced a similar software program as part of a free closed-beta program.Note: Intel's technical manuals on ...

11. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... efforts from Nvidia and AMD's ATI group. Each of these efforts, while impressive in terms of potential, wasn't making any headway with mainstream applications, because they were incompatible with each ...

12. Surfboard: VIA releases new platform for mini-notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ... includes five software accessible modes through x86 assembly instructions not found on Intel or AMD CPUs: 1) Electronic CookBook, 2) Cipher Block Chaining, 3) 128-bit Cipher FeedBack, 4) Counter and 5) ...

13. AMD releases Windows 7 graphics driver

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    AMD said its Catalyst 9.3 graphics driver is the first “unified driver” to support Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7, including compliance with the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) ...

14. AMD releases extreme low-power FirePro 2450 quad-display graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... 18-watts on average, supports PCI Express 2.0 and has two VHDCI connectors with breakout cables for quad DVI-I or VGA monitors. AMD suggests the graphics card serves as a replacement for the ATI FireMV ...

15. ATI releases new 40nm 4800-series Mobile GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    Today, AMD announced two new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000-series GPUs for notebooks, the HD 4830 and HD 4860, both built on ATI's new 40nm process technology and both supporting DDR3, GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory ...

16. AMD spins off semiconductor manufacturing company

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    On Wednesday, AMD announced that after a delay caused by an insufficient number of voters to constitute a quorum for doing business, its shareholders were finally able to hold a vote in Austin, Texas. ...

17. 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 ...

18. UPDATED: AMD postpones special stockholder meeting until Feb 18

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    Today, AMD announced at its Special Meeting of Stockholders at the Hilton Austin Airport, 9515 Hotel Drive in Austin, TX, that the meeting will be adjourned until February 18, 2009 at 10am at the same ...

19. UPDATED: AMD: Three new Socket AM3 chips, two are Phenom II X3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    Today, AMD released the first of its Phenom II X3 CPUs, along with a new Phenom II X4 810 model at 2.6 GHz and 95 watts with a slightly reduced L3 cache at 4MB instead of the normal 6MB. The CPU sells ...

20. Qualcomm buys AMD's handheld graphics and multimedia assets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 January 2009

      Qualcomm Incorporated announced today that it has "acquired certain graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources that were formerly the basis of AMD's handheld business." ...

21. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... be seeing any WOW! products - quite possibly ever again. Not from Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, VIA, Nvidia, or even the the John Kanziuss of the world - at least not those that weren‘t fully ...

22. CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

      AMD took the opportunity to use the CES 2009 forum to officially release its latest update to its 64-bit line of 45nm microprocessors. Phenom II X4 and Dragon platform for desktop PCs represent an "elite-level" ...

23. 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 ...

24. Intel appeals EC antitrust findings

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... on it selling only Intel-based PCs. Secondly, Intel made payments in order to induce a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to delay the planned launch of a product line incorporating an AMD-based ...

25. 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 ...

26. BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... and its 800+ million transistors, as well as Intel's Core architecture. Competing companies have followed the trend as well, such as AMD and their AMD64 architecture. In the past, key new releases followed ...

27. 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 ...

28. Dell releases BIOS updates for failing Nvidia GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 July 2008

    ... Camden told TG Daily. She declined to comment on the number of systems affected and the average repair cost. However, Nvidia recently noted that it expects total the GPU issue to cost the company about ...

29. AMD releases ATI All-In-Wonder HD card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

      It has been a while since ATI offered a new version of its All-in-Wonder graphics/TV tuner card combination. AMD revived the product series with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, which replaces the still offered ...

30. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... this controversy was received as being rather doubtful. In the most case of accusations, AMD claims that Nvidia has been fiddling with the 3DMark Vantage benchmark. Just couple of hours after that story ...

31. Nvidia releases 9800GTX+ graphics processor for the mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    ... AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 4850, in popular game and physics benchmarks. Santa Clara (CA) – With the new GTX200 series out the gate, Nvidia is ready to transition its 9800 GPU family into more affordable ...

32. AMD releases ‘fixed’ triple-core Phenom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 April 2008

      AMD is serious about winning back market share in the mainstream desktop computing segment from Intel – and it has become clear that AMD’s strongest weapon will be triple-core processors. Today, ...

33. Stanford releases new GPU client for Folding@Home project

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 13 April 2008

      The Folding@Home team, headed by Vijay Panda, has released a new version of its GPU client: Folding@Home is now supporting AMD’s Radeon HD 2000 and 3000 series. Stanford (CA) – The Folding@Home ...

34. PNY releases Quadro FX 5600 SDI card with 1.5 GB of video memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

    ... for the broadcasting industry. And yes, Nvidia, AMD and Intel are there, but we have to acknowledge that AMD and Intel take the  second and the third spot in visualization technologies for the broadcasting ...

35. ATI releases stuttering fix for all Radeon HD cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 26 March 2008

    If you own an ATI Radeon HD graphics card and have seen stuttering issues 3D applications (predominately games such as Battlefield 2 and TimeShift), you should visit AMD's site and download a hotfix that ...

36. AMD releases a new HTPC CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    AMD today released the Athlon X2 4850E, a new processor in its dual-core 45-watt portfolio. The processor is designed to operate in quiet and space-constrained environments, such as small form factor ...

37. AMD releases last non-quad-GPU driver package

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 February 2008

    AMD today released version 8.2 of its Catalyst graphics driver. The software leads up to the major 8.3 release in March, and includes minor patches for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, World of Warcraft, ...

38. Intel’s Germany offices raided by EC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 13 February 2008

    ... EC Treaty and “abused” its dominant market position to prevent AMD from competing in the CPU market. A first Statement of Objection was released by the EC in July of last year, which was followed by a ...

39. AMD releases dual-GPU graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 January 2008

    AMD returns to the high-end of the graphics card segment with the Radeon HD 3870 X2. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD returns to the high-end of the graphics card segment with the Radeon HD 3870 X2. It has ...

40. AMD releases sub-$100 graphics cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 January 2008

    Discrete graphics are advancing deeper into the mainstream segment with AMD’s new Radeon HD 3000 series, offering DirectX 10.1 and DisplayPort functionality as well as the ability to handle 1080p ...

41. AMD releases Catalyst 8.1 driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 18 January 2008

    AMD has released its first Catalyst driver package for the year. The new version deliver MultiView support under OpenGL, and resolves various issues for the games Bioshock, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, FEAR, ...

42. AMD touts upcoming AMD LIVE! Ultra, releases Explorer - UPDATE

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 09 January 2008

    AMD announces an upcoming technology designed to deliver the maximum multimedia experience ever delivered by AMD, called AMD LIVE! Ultra.  AMD has also released a 3D multimedia catalog browser for ...

43. AMD releases unlocked 9600+ Black edition

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 December 2007

    AMD has released a Phenom 9600+ Black Edition quad-core processor.  The unlocked multiplier will undoubtedly be a draw for enthusiasts looking to buy highest-end AMD equipment. Austin (TX) - AMD ...

44. AMD delays Barcelona, again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 December 2007

    Following a significant processor errata (error, or bug), AMD has been forced to delay wide-spread Barcelona shipments until Q1'08.  The fix decreases performance greatly, something AMD does ...

45. Microsoft releases 90-day free trial of Visual Studio 2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    ... be a significantly slimmed down version.  According to AMD, a close partner to Microsoft on their compiler development, Visual Studio typically goes out to about 9 million users.  Visual Studio ...

46. AMD releases Catalyst 7.11 graphics driver

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    AMD has just released the November update of its Catalyst driver package. The new version does not deliver any features, but focuses on improvements for the games Bioshock, Call of Juarez, Doom 3, Fable, ...

47. AMD refreshes math library to include 128-bit Barcelona support

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 11 November 2007

    AMD releases an upgrade to support Barcelona's 128-bit SIMD engine, along with algorithm enhancements and optimizations.  This will be the first of two major upgrades in the coming year designed ...

48. AMD is all in

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    Opinion - AMD's actions in recent quarters reveal a trend we can only describe as: all in. It's a poker term meaning AMD bet it all on Barcelona. But is Barcelona enough? Can AMD make it with ...

49. 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 ...

50. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 July 2007

    ... supported through 2008.  Other versions should be nearly identical.  I have installed both the x86 and AMD64 versions and they're identical for installation. The only problem I encountered ...