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Intel to announce low-end server chips
News Intel is using its Core line of processors to try to win back market share lost to rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. Intel is expected to debut its Xeon 3000 processors this week at the Intel Developer Forum.
[September 26, 2006, 12:50]
Intel cuts chip prices -- again
News They also keep the pressure on Advanced Micro Devices. Intel reduced prices for the second time in a month, cutting prices on desktop Pentium III and Celeron chips by up to 15 percent. The chipmaker cut prices Sunday by up to 13 percent on its...
[September 14, 1999, 9:24]
eMachines: Expect appliances from us
News The $999 eSlate 400k notebook will offer an Advanced Micro Devices Inc.mobile K6-2 chip, running at 400MHz. Instead, its top executive hinted that the company is ready to jump into the market for even cheaper, special purpose Internet-enabled...
[November 19, 1999, 10:25]
Intel reveals Itanium details
News To top it off, the market Itanium was designed to dominate, the RISC server market, is shrinking as a result of the popularity of chips like Intel's own Xeon and the Opteron from Advanced Micro Devices.
[July 26, 2004, 8:45]
Intel soups up Prescott
News The 1.4GHz Pentium 4 that came out at that time didn't provide an advantage over the 1GHz Pentium III for many applications, according to testers, and often underperformed the then state-of-the-art 1.2GHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices, which...
[January 22, 2004, 8:20]
Intel's Dothan date revealed
News In switching the model numbers, Intel follows rival Advanced Micro Devices. The latest notebook chip from Intel will come out on 10 May, according to sources, along with price cuts and a new naming scheme.
[April 28, 2004, 8:20]
Solaris 9 update speeds up networks
News Sun is in the process of restoring full support for Solaris 9 running on Intel-compatible chips such as the Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon. Sun Microsystems has released the first update of Solaris 9, its new version of the Unix operating...
[October 11, 2002, 9:27]
US Report: Intel beats Wall Street
News Last week, both Advanced Micro Devices Inc.and Motorola Inc.managed to top analysts' estimates in their third quarter thanks to strong sales of low-end microprocessors and better-than-expected sales in North America.
[October 14, 1998, 15:40]
The Day Ahead: Transmeta's story still has a way to go
News Step aside Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Commentary: At a recent chip trade show, Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel was yapping about how he made Intel boost its mobile R&D budget. Meanwhile, he carried around plenty of models featuring...
[November 6, 2000, 13:05]
For servers, size matters
News Rival Advanced Micro Devices, however, will increase the competition when it releases its Opteron chip on 22 April. Size and speed are the buzzwords for servers. Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled a server that crams four processors into a box...
[March 10, 2003, 14:23]
Intel to boost Celeron bus
News Those parameters, due to competition from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), have changed, though. The chip maker, sources tell ZDNet News, will move its value-oriented Celeron processor to a 100MHz system bus in the first half of next year.
[August 31, 2000, 15:51]
Sun: Zero-revenue model is no threat
News Schwartz predicted that Solaris and its accompanying development tools will be increasingly interesting to developers writing software for "x86" servers, those based on chips such as Intel's Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron.
[February 12, 2004, 10:30]
Intel's Dothan finally makes its debut
News The system is not unlike that of Advanced Micro Devices, whose three-digit Opteron model numbers are also designed to reflect the successively higher performance of that chip. Intel is lending a new name to its processors for notebook PCs.
[May 10, 2004, 15:25]
Sony bundles 'free' wireless modem
News Gateway, Micron Electronics, Compaq, Apple, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have all warned of lower-than-expected sales and profits for the fourth quarter. Sony is giving away a wireless modem with its Vaio notebooks, one of the many deals being...
[December 15, 2000, 10:17]
US Energy Dept hands out $20m for tech research
News Separately, IBM also is expected to announce on Tuesday that it's begun selling a prepackaged supercomputing cluster using the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices and based on its IBM's eServer 325 server.
[November 4, 2003, 11:25]
Sony tosses in free wireless modems with notebooks
News Gateway, Micron Electronics, Compaq, Apple Computer, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have all warned of lower-than-expected sales and profits for the fourth quarter. Sony is giving away a wireless modem with its Vaio notebooks, one of the many...
[December 14, 2000, 13:35]
Intel slashes 5,000 jobs
News Kumar added that Intel's decline cannot be attributed to gains by rival Advanced Micro Devices. Intel slashed its earnings forecast again Thursday and announced it would cut 5,000 jobs -- about six percent of its work force -- over the next nine...
[March 9, 2001, 7:39]
HP ends chip dynasty
News The original Athlon chip from Advanced Micro Devices used a bus initially created for the Alpha. Hewlett-Packard will release its final Alpha processor on Monday, the beginning of the end for a chip dynasty that never was.
[August 19, 2004, 8:20]
Barrett and Grove: two contrasting styles
News He was largely responsible for smoothing relations between rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Barrett, who joined Intel in 1974, was named chief operating officer in 1993 and president in 1997. He had been groomed for the top spot both by Grove and...
[March 27, 1998, 8:48]
New Pentium 4 portends PC price fracas
News Rival Advanced Micro Devices, which increased market share by four percentage points last quarter, will also likely feel a price pinch. Intel will release a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor on Monday and with it a scorched-earth approach to the PC market.
[April 23, 2001, 8:19]
