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Impact of Thailand floods continues to bite tech industry

Posted January 25, 2012 - 12:01 am

Nvidia lowered its revenue forecast Tuesday for the quarter ending Jan. 29, citing the impact of the hard disk drive (HDD) shortage caused by the Thailand floods on its mainstream GPU business.
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AMD launches Opteron processors for virtualization and cloud computing

Posted December 7, 2011 - 7:04 am

Chip vendor, AMD, has released its Opteron 6200 and 4200 series catered to enterprise virtualization and cloud computing.
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AMD and IBM stock inside trader to begin jail sentence today

Posted December 5, 2011 - 1:10 pm

A judge has ordered Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted of a massive insider trading scheme involving shares in technology and other companies, to start serving his 11 year jail sentence today.
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Will the ARM chip punch out Intel's x86?

Posted November 29, 2011 - 12:04 pm

Two questions: will a tablet become your PC one day soon? And when you buy a Windows 8 system, will that PC or tablet run on an ARM processor?
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AMD breaks overclocking record

Posted September 13, 2011 - 10:01 am

Case fans are so pedestrian. If you’re at all serious about smashing the world record for the highest recorded clock speed on a processor, you’re going to need cutting edge hardware, loads of ingenuity, and the experience of world class overclockers.
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After long search, AMD hires a new chief executive

Posted August 25, 2011 - 3:28 pm

Advanced Micro Devices has named former Lenovo Group COO Rory Read as its new chief executive.
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Morning wrap: Tweetdeck absorbed into Twitter mothership

Posted May 9, 2011 - 8:38 am

Also: Apple has a valuable brand, says brand-valuing organization.
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AMD opens up USB 3.0 for PCs with chipset support

Posted April 13, 2011 - 12:53 pm

Upcoming chipsets from Advanced Micro Devices will support USB 3.0, which could make it easier for PC makers to add ports based on the interconnect to laptops.
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Facebook open sources hardware specs? Not really.

Posted April 8, 2011 - 12:44 pm

Facebook released the hardware specs and layout for its Prineville, OR data center in an effort to "open source" the specs and release a disruptive force in the hardware vendor/data center sector. But is it really open source?
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Former AMD CEO had 'intimate relationship' with fund manager

Posted March 16, 2011 - 6:44 pm

Hector Ruiz, chief executive at AMD between 2002 and 2008, allegedly had an “intimate relationship” with a Bear Stearns hedge fund manager who was feeding secret information to a billionaire now on trial for insider trading.
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Would Dell want to buy AMD?

Posted February 15, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Whatever thrill the market got out of the rumor that Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) may be up for sale, with Dell as a potential buyer, lasted but a day. Shares of AMD fell 3 cents, or 0.4 percent, to 8.60 on Tuesday after climbing more than 4 percent in Monday's session as the Dell-AMD rumor piqued investors' interest.
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Morgan Stanley banker drawn into AMD insider trading case

Posted January 25, 2011 - 4:12 pm

A Morgan Stanley banker has been drawn into the wide US federal investigation into the alleged insider dealing of stocks of technology companies.
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Meyer resigns as AMD's CEO

Posted January 11, 2011 - 9:57 am

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive.
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See, this is why you need a CEO succession plan

Posted January 10, 2011 - 7:13 pm

Earlier on Monday I wrote about Apple advising shareholders to reject a proposal to begin the process of finding and/or grooming a replacement for chief executive Steve Jobs. After all, it only makes sense to be prepared.
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Nvidia plan for CPUs marks major disruption in PC processor choices

Posted January 6, 2011 - 12:12 pm

Changes by Intel, AMD, Nvidia and Microsoft have shoved the processor market in a blender, though how good the result will be for consumers or IT is far from clear.
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Intel builds graphics chip into CPU

Posted January 3, 2011 - 1:42 pm

Intel rolled out its combination CPU/GPU chipsets at CES in Las Vegas this week, beating AMD to the punch and pleasing Hollywood with content-control hooks.
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Intel, AMD each plan 'combination' chips

Posted December 27, 2010 - 11:50 am

Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices each plan to announce at January's Consumer Electronics Show a "combination" chip which includes microprocessors that power PCs and graphics processing units. tweetmeme_source = 'ITworld';
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Will the Mac move to AMD chips?

Posted November 30, 2010 - 2:42 pm

For the past few years, predicting the CPUs that Apple would put inside its Macs has been relatively easy. Ever since Apple made the move to Intel's x86 processors, the Mac road map mirrored Intel's road map: Intel would release a new CPU, and a few months later Apple would release a new Mac. It was like clockwork, and it removed some of the surprise from Apple's otherwise difficult-to-predict product-release cadence.
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AMD launches next-generation mobile graphics processors

Posted November 29, 2010 - 2:14 pm

AMD today announced two new series of mobile graphics processors aimed at high-end and mid-range laptops: the AMD Radeon HD 6500M and the AMD Radeon HD 6300M.
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Unintentionally, AMD, Intel Build Great Cloud Chips

Posted October 18, 2010 - 10:12 am

It's not what they aimed at when adding GPUs to multicores, but next-gen processors should make virtual desktops, clouds and other forms of virtualization much easier on highly portable hardware.
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Oracle/AMD Rumors: An Apple for the Enterprise?

Posted October 8, 2010 - 2:10 pm

Oracle has Sparc, Java, Oracle database, and OpenOffice.org. Now there are rumors it's thinking about picking up AMD. If true, what possible reason would it have? Here's a thought: to build cloud-ready devices.
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AMD lowers third-quarter revenue forecast

Posted September 23, 2010 - 9:19 pm

Citing weaker than expected demand, "particularly in the consumer-notebook market in Western Europe and North America,” chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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AMD CEO's pay falls 15% to $4.5 million in 2009

Posted March 16, 2010 - 9:58 am

Advanced Micro Devices turned a profit in 2009 after three successive annual losses, but CEO Derrick Meyer's total compensation fell 15%.
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Intel, AMD six-core chips mark an evolution for the desktop

Posted March 15, 2010 - 3:58 pm

The unveiling of six-core desktop processors by AMD and Intel mark a step in the evolution of chip technology, not a revolutionary move, mostly due to the lack of software that can take advantage of the advances.
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Top 10: AMD and Intel patch things up, HP buys 3Com

Posted November 13, 2009 - 6:09 pm

We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.
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