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Shanghai to lead the way for AMD
News New Opteron processor marks chipmaker's shift to 45-nanometer technology, and boasts features that will help AMD "capture leadership position", says exec.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Software engineering/development, Virtualization, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Shanghai, Cloud Computing, OEM, AMD Opteron, Istanbul
USB 3.0 is ready to go
News The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB has been published by the USB Implementers Forum.
Tags: Components, Hardware, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Specification, USB Flash Drive, USB
AMD slashes 500 more jobs
News Troubled chipmaker announces that it has cut 500 employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce, in an effort to reduce expenses.
Tags: Processors, Layoffs, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Job Cut, Manufacturing, Workforce, CEO, Sunnyvale, job, News.com
Intel: HP accounts for 20 percent of annual sales
News In its annual report, Intel says Hewlett-Packard accounted for 20 percent of its revenue in 2008, up from 17 percent in 2007.
Tags: Processors, Sales/revenue, Sales channels, Personal Computers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Sales, Lehman Brothers Inc.
No-holds barred on netbooks
Blogs The journalist group that I belong to, CyberPress, held our regular industry forum last Friday and I should say that it ...
Former Intel worker faces more charges in alleged trade secrets theft
News Man faces four new counts of wire fraud for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the chipmaker while working for competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
Tags: Processors, Security, Legal, Lawsuits, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., FBI, Trade Secret, Chip Company, U.S. Department Of Justice
AMD sells mobile tech to Qualcomm
News Qualcomm is acquiring some of AMD's mobile graphics and multimedia technology, along with specialist AMD employees, in a US$65M deal.
Tags: Handhelds, Mobile processors, Processors, Employee policy/training, Qualcomm Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobile, Broadcom Corp., Manufacturing, Graphics
AMD, Red Hat demo cross-platform live migration
News The companies have posted a video online showing how they can move virtual machines between Intel and AMD platforms without requiring systems to be shut down.
Tags: Processors, Virtualization, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Migration, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Machine, Video, Server, data center
Ray Ozzie sees cloud over Valley
News Microsoft's chief software architect discusses the impact cloud computing will have on the tech industry and Silicon Valley during a talk in Palo Alto, Calif.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Web sites, Leadership, ARM, Ray Ozzie, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Bill Gates, Google Inc., Web Browser
Intel-Dell dealings under fire
News Pressure on Dell, as outlined in Cuomo's lawsuit, provides fresh insight into the marketing payments that regulators say left PC makers beholden to Intel.
Tags: Processors, Personal Computers, Complaint, Intel Corp., Cuomo, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computer, CEO, Personal Computers, PC Company
AMD reorg merges microprocessor, graphics units
News Troubled chipmaker's second reorganization in little more than a year will combine its microprocessor and graphics units.
Tags: Processors, Leadership, Organizational structure, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Graphics, microprocessor, graphics chip
AMD faces US$50M bill for restructuring
News Cost-cutting measures mean the chipmaker, which has lost ground to Intel, will have a multimillion-dollar outlay in the first three months of this year.
Tags: Processors, Financial, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., iSuppli Corp., employee benefit, Chip Company, microprocessor, restructuring plan, asset
US court pressed to unseal AMD-Intel antitrust records
News News outlets and pressure groups have requested access to 'unnecessarily and unjustly' sealed records of the long-running antitrust dispute.
Tags: Processors, Legal, Antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Server, Computer & Communications Industry Association, New York Times Co., Dow Jones & Company Inc., server company
AMD chip bundle targets 'ultra-thin' notebooks
News The chipset bundle, which includes the Athlon Neo processor, is aimed at laptops that are larger and have better components than netbooks, but are cheaper than ultra portables.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Processors, Graphics, Hardware, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, AMD Athlon, Yukon, Notebook
Intel Atom sales boost global chip market
News Research from IDC has found that Intel's Atom chip, found in Netbooks, accounted for about half the growth in microprocessor sales in Q3.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, VIA Technologies Inc., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., International Data Corp., Chip, Sales, Server, Intel Atom
