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1. AMD culls Phenoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... has socket AM3 packaging.  It also has six 512KB L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache, and a core frequency of 2.8GHz. Meanwhile, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini has been seen wining and dining several China-based graphics ...

2. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... resulted in AMD Product Company achieving profitability in the third quarter." He put that down to growth in CPU and graphics unit shipments. "Growth in microprocessor and graphics unit shipments drove ...

3. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter of 2009 and AMD appears to rule the roost.The results are out for graphics shipments and market share in the second quarter ...

4. Graphics market has worst ever year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sales of graphics chips in 2009 are the worst ever - worse even than when the dotcom bubble went pop.Sales of graphics chips in 2009 are the worst ever - worse even than when the dotcom bubble went pop. ...

5. Microsoft predicts 177 million Windows 7 shipments by year end

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... graphics drivers," said Veghte who reckons MS will ship 177 million copies of the new OS by the end of 2009. Some 246 million Vista PCs present a $320 billion upgrade opportunity for partners and 51 ...

6. Samsung moves ARM to 45nm

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... with those objectives in mind to offer substantial improvements in CPU performance at low power, high quality graphics capability, and lower system cost. CE device manufacturers using S5P6440 can offer ...

7. Apple WWDC: How to take on Windows 7

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... of financial information, or market demographics, or things even most people inside the company would categorize as really boring. I think most seem to think these events are all about getting credit. ...

8. AMD stifling competition? Did Palit screw AMD?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Opinion – There is heated debate going on in the graphics industry discussing a rather unusual choice of add-in-board (AIB) maker Palit to modify an AMD reference design in an obvious move to cut costs. ...

9. Light at the end of the tunnel may not be an approaching train

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Intel and Nvidia have performed surprisingly-well in the first quarter, according to new figures from Jon Peddie Research. Intel and Nvidia have performed surprisingly-well in the first quarter, according ...

10. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... concerned, Meyer said that desktop ASPs were up a bit, on notebooks  down a bit while servers affects the entire mix. He said notebook graphics sales are affected because AMD offers those for both ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...   There were two other pieces of information that somehow got lost, but are noteworthy.  First, Intel’s discrete graphics chip, Larrabee, is available as silicon and is in “debug now”. Otellini ...

12. Apple steals Valentine's Day: Delays 17" MacBook Pro until after Feb 19

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... faster Core 2 Duo processors, a faster front-side bus and the use of both discreet and integrated Nvidia graphics. Customers who ordered the $2,799 system originally scheduled for shipment around end of ...

13. Graphics chip demand declining as sales plummet

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... a market researcher. The entire market suffered from reduced shipments, some manufactures were hurt more than others, but everyone had a rough time. During the fourth quarter graphics chip shipments ...

14. UPDATED: Qimonda: German memory maker declares bankruptcy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... graphics DRAM chips, 15% to 20% of the server DRAM market, under 10% of non-server DRAM for PCs.Nam Hyung Kim, director and chief iSuppli analyst said, "The primary factors driving Qimonda into insolvency ...

15. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... first graphics controller and first graphics board product. AMD enters the Fortune 500 list. 1986: Intel cancels its license agreement with AMD and refuses to divulge technical details of the i386. An ...

16. AMD launches $40 graphics cards assault against Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... graphics chip systems to discrete graphics cards. AMD’s new 4500/4300 series goes head-to head with Nvidia’s entry-level 9400-series, but promises to undercut its rival’s price point while offering ...

17. CherryPal delayed again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the graphics hardware. The company will hold off launching the device for a couple more weeks.  Chicago (IL) - CherryPal told TG Daily that its $250 cloud computing PC is seeing additional delays. ...

18. Intel unveils consumer electronics SoC Canmore

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... controller, dedicated multi-channel dual audio DSPs, a 3D graphics engine and support for multiple peripherals, including USB 2.0 and PCI Express. Intel expects to begin shipments of the SoC next month. ...

19. IDF Fall 2008: Lucid samples graphics parallelization chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Lucid said that it has begun shipments of Hydra reference designs, a technology that allows system vendors to integrate multiple graphics cards in a single computer. Called the Hydra 100-series, the ...

20. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 2009/2010; Larrabee graphics card; we will see USB 3.0 and WiMax demonstrations; Intel will announce that it is now producing more 45 nm than 65 nm processors and it will tell attendees that its mobile ...

21. AMD aims to grab 50% share of discrete graphics card market by the end of 2008

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    With AMD officially announcing its ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 GPU, the company has noted that its ATI Radeon HD 4800-series has boosted the company's discrete graphics card market share from 30% to 40%, ...

22. Nvidia takes a big hit in the second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      The replacement of faulty graphics chips as well as a much stronger than expected AMD/ATI pushed Nvidia deep into the red during the second quarter. The company reported a revenue decline of 23% ...

23. Westinghouse upgrades $50,000 Quad HD LCD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in very limited numbers and was offered especially to companies that have a need for high-resolution graphics displays in exchange for $50,000. Over the recent months we heard that  these displays ...

24. Most first-tier motherboard makers see on-month drop in revenues

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... businesses, Pegatron Technology and Unihan Technology, saw consolidated revenues of NT$33.76 billion, a slight increase of 1.7% on month. Although the motherboard and graphics card markets are still in ...

25. Overall GPU market up 4% in Q1, while notebooks slip

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market shares for the first calendar quarter of 2008. Traditionally, the first quarter has flat to negative growth ...

26. Intel shows off massive two-billion transistor Tukwila and diminutive Atom at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... question and answer session after the keynote, he told reporters that current demographics are conducive to MIDs because people today grew up with the Internet and computers.  Apparently he thinks ...

27. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will improve in product generations, which includes the second-gen platform “Moorestown” which, by the way, will also target smartphones.    Integrated Graphics Chipset: A big System Controller ...

28. Larrabee and Dunnington to star at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the next-gen Nehalem micro architecture, first information about the succeeding 32 nm Sandy Bridge architecture as well as its discrete graphics card and FP accelerator Larrabee. Extra: Slideshow Santa ...

29. Acer rolls out new 16” and 18” Blu-ray notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 2 Duo processors and Nvidia’s 9500GS graphics chip (with 512 MB memory and up to 768 MB of additional shared system memory). Also included is the usual array of wireless connectivity and a HDMI interface. ...

30. AMD takes a new shot a workstation graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Workstation graphics isn’t particularly a high-volume market, at least not if we compare this segment to the desktop and notebook market, but it is an extremely lucrative and actually rapidly growing ...

31. Graphics card vendors and workstation market saw strong Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    The fourth quarter of 2007 was the strongest of the year for graphics cards vendors, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Following on the heels of an upswing in the third quarter, the fourth quarter ...

32. More than 100 million graphics chips shipped in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The graphics industry continues to grow at an astonishing rate. Intel and Nvidia are the market, selling a combined 77.1% of all graphics chips. AMD (ATI) is trailing its two rivals and is still dealing ...

33. ATI brings AMD a record loss of $1.8 billion in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... for the period. The former ATI graphics division reported sales of $259 million, up 3% from Q3.  AMD’s stock was up $0.11 or 1.7% in after hour trading on Thursday. The stock closed at $6.34, ...

34. Workstation market on fire, says Jon Peddie Research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Q3 2007 were built on x86 architecture running Windows or Linux, JPR said. Workstation graphics also showed solid growth and broke the 1 million unit barrier for the first time. JPR estimates that unit ...

35. AMD promises to “fix quad-core”, touts hybrid graphics

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... for a mid-2008 release, while Montreal (quad- and 8-core) is expected in 2009. On the ATI side, AMD recently revealed in a recent SEC filing that it has over-estimated the value of the graphics and chipset ...

36. Almost 100 million graphics chips shipped in Q3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Graphics chip manufacturers scored a record quarter: Shipments were up almost 20% sequentially and 18% year-over-year, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Nvidia continues to gain traction in the ...

37. AMD reports $394 million loss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and 23% year over year. Q3 2006, however, did not include revenues generated by the firm’s graphics, chipset and consumer electronics units (ATI). The net loss was $396 million, an improvement over ...

38. Notebooks taking over the mainstream in retail PC sales – analyst

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... on an average PC than in 2006. Adding to that trend is the march of discrete graphics capability into the desktop segment. For the first time, discrete graphics cards will be available in sub-$800 PCs, ...

39. AMD quickly losing ground in graphics market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD apparently has lost more market share in the graphics market during the second quarter of the year. Meanwhile, Nvidia is running away and gaining ground on Intel rapidly. Tiburon (CA) – AMD ...

40. MSI and Gigabyte see strong shipment growth in motherboards and graphics cards

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology both expect strong growth in their shipments of motherboards and graphics cards in 2007, company executives told shareholders at the annual shareholders ...

41. Playstation 3 accounts for almost 90% of XDR memory shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the main XDR memory suppliers for the PS3. Rambus did not provide further specific products, which are using XDR devices today, but mentioned that the technology “ideally suited for graphics processing, ...

42. Computex 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ...  Corsair takes DDR3 memory to 2 GHz MSI shows external graphics, passively cooled graphics card A 5000 watt power converter SlientFlux melds radiators and CPU cooler ...

43. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 943GML (DDR2-533/FSB533), which is based on the ICH7M Southbridge and the GL960, which includes the newer ICH8M Southbridge and support for DDR2-533 and FSB533. The GM965 includes Intel’s graphics ...

44. Nvidia to trade technologies with Intel – report

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Nvidia apparently is looking for a closer relationship with Intel and release some of its graphics technologies in exchange for an improved cooperation with the world’s largest processor, graphics ...

45. AMD preps 65 nm Turion X2 processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Qualcomm and RealTek, for example, provide a tailored wireless chipset for the Turion processor. AMD now can offer graphics chipsets through the acquisition of ATI, but Nvidia remains in place as a second ...

46. Nvidia takes lead in desktop graphics market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The global graphics market turned in disappointing shipment numbers in Q1, despite the launch of Windows Vista, which was generally considered to become a driver for graphics chips with more horsepower. ...

47. IDF: Intel’s mobile platform goes quad-core, adds WiMax

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... graphics chipset (GM, PM, GL965), as well as a 802.11n chipset that has been announced back in January and is becoming available in notebooks these days. There are four new processors (T7100, T7300, T7500, ...

48. Quo vadis, Nvidia?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... how the company perceives its challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing graphics market. Will Nvidia be squeezed out of the GPU market or grow even stronger than it is today? Have you ever wondered ...

49. Ruiz: AMD’s first quad-core to ship in “late summer”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the areas of graphics and visualization, low-cost computing as well as energy-efficient computing in the enterprise space. According to Ruiz, “changing the rules” will provide AMD with “a ...

50. Intel to increase shipments of 965 chipsets by 50% in Q1

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... system (OS), according to industry sources. The plan is seen as targeted to consolidate Intel's share in the IGP (integrated graphics processor) market amid expected strong demand for high-performance ...