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Intel vs. AMD: Battle of the world's smallest PCs

Posted March 20, 2013 - 10:57 am

The desktop PC isn't dead, it's just shrinking. There's a new breed of miniature marvels on the market, and they boast a nonexistent footprint when attached to the back of a display. Unlike some micro-size, micro-priced computers--the $35 Raspberry Pi, for example--these incredibly small machines provide more than enough processing power for all but the most strenuous computing chores.
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AMD passing on phones, focusing on tablets and hybrids

Posted January 9, 2013 - 3:58 pm

The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones.
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AMD denies reports company is for sale

Posted November 13, 2012 - 10:25 pm

Advanced Micro Devices is denying reports that executives have taken steps that could lead to the company's sale.
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Did AMD shoot itself in the foot by laying off open-source talent?

Posted November 8, 2012 - 8:56 am

The staff of Advanced Micro Devices' Operating System Research Center has been laid off, according to a report from The H Online, dramatically reducing the company's ability to contribute to the Linux community and support its own hardware on the platform.
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AMD says more Windows 8 tablets with its chips coming

Posted October 24, 2012 - 4:51 pm

Advanced Micro Devices hopes to brush off a slow start to compete against ARM and Intel in the Windows 8 tablet market through new customer announcements and future chips.
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AMD OverDrive: Easily overclock an AMD rig

Posted October 2, 2012 - 2:31 pm

Low framerates can make or break a 3D game. When overclocked, most video cards push past their posted limits with ease and offer better gains than CPU boosts when it comes to gaming. Although many utilities to tweak graphics cards exist, AMD's OverDrive is an especially good choice for AMD-based systems.
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Oracle, AMD urge support for Java GPU proposal

Posted August 15, 2012 - 10:33 am

Java processing would be segmented via OpenJDK into work for graphics processor and work for CPU
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AMD's Trinity processor vs. Intel's Ivy Bridge

Posted May 21, 2012 - 2:00 pm

AMD's next-generation A-Series processors, code-named Trinity, are the chip manufacturer's answer to Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors now appearing in the new Ultrabook laptops.
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AMD consolidating data centers with cloud, hardware upgrades

Posted April 26, 2012 - 8:07 pm

Advanced Micro Devices is cutting costs and reducing the number of its data centers worldwide with the help of the cloud and hardware upgrades, an AMD executive said Thursday.
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Impact of Thailand floods continues to bite tech industry

Posted January 25, 2012 - 1:01 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 - 8:04 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 - 2:10 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 - 1:04 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 - 11:01 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 - 4:28 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 - 9:38 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 - 1:53 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 - 1:44 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 - 7:44 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 - 7:02 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 - 5:12 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 - 10:57 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 - 8:13 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 - 1:12 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 - 2:42 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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