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AMD: The not-so-great pretender
Leader With sales slumping, products months or years late and the $5bn (£2.5bn) debut from the ATI purchase far outweighing any advantage it brought, the chances of the company continuing as is are increasingly slim.
[April 14, 2008, 15:23]
AMD merges processor and graphics units
News The products group — one of four new groups announced on Wednesday — will be headed by graphics chip executive Rick Bergman, who joined AMD after its $5.4bn (£3.6bn) acquisition of graphics chip company ATI in 2006.
[May 7, 2009, 9:39]
Windows 8/2012- Intel graphics driver support
Talkback In 2012 Intel have better things to be spending their time on new 3d mobile graphics chipsets which came out to compete with nvidia ion 9400M mobile chipset and amd's ATI Mobility Radeon 4850/4870 Chipset.
[May 11, 2009, 9:28]
AMD ships Windows 7-ready chipset
News The new chipset features integrated graphics performance, based on the ATI Radeon HD 4200. AMD has introduced a chipset to support the upcoming Windows 7 platform, offering integrated graphics capability and support for faster media-streaming...
[August 4, 2009, 16:28]
Nvidia, AMD announce new graphics chips
News AMD, meanwhile, has announced two 40nm graphics chips, the ATI Mobile Radeon HD 4860 and 4830, which the company says are capable of supporting video at 1080p HD resolution. Chip companies Nvidia and AMD both announced new graphics chips at the...
[March 3, 2009, 11:41]
AMD's sales chief to leave company
News Last month saw the departure of Dave Orton, the head of AMD's graphics business following AMD's acquisition of ATI Technologies. Henri Richard, head of AMD's sales and marketing, will step down from his post in September, the company officially...
[August 23, 2007, 9:02]
jolicloud - another Linux for Netbooks
Blog That has good and bad aspects - good, because you could hardly choose a better, and more stable, base to build on; bad, because it has all of the hardware restrictions and requirements inherent in UNR, particularly for advanced graphic (3D/GL...
[January 5, 2010, 13:01]
Some Days You Eat the Bear...
Blog The Lifebook S2110, which can sometimes be difficult because of the AMD CPU and ATI graphic controller. and some days the bear eats you. Sigh. Today was going to be a good day. The Fedora 11 Beta was released yesterday evening, and I had already...
[April 2, 2009, 8:11]
Fedora 11 - A Quirk in Installation
Blog It is installed and running on the Dual Atom Nettop and the Core2Duo notebook, and it is installing on the AMD/ATI notebook as I write this. I'm in the process of installing Fedora 11 on my various computers.
[June 15, 2009, 15:43]
Why AMD refuses to rest on its laurels
News It continues to improve its chips and, with the acquisition of ATI, will release integrated chips for notebooks and other devices. Obviously the relationship with ATI will be much stronger, but we would have no intention of locking anybody out if...
[October 3, 2006, 16:10]
Intel gets systematic
Blog And you wondered why AMD bought ATI? There are obvious commercial reasons - AMD has been successful with its more SoC-ish approach - as well as practical ones to do with having to tightly couple high performance components with the CPU in ways that...
[December 17, 2007, 16:01]
Same old Skype tricks
Talkback Why don't they follow the model of video games where they are sponsored by Nvidia or Ati and state that "runs better on.but still allows both hardware to run the game. sounds very much like the scandal when they disabled features for users using...
[November 23, 2007, 15:27]
Mesh first up with Intel TX chipset
News Mesh will configure systems with Quantum's 3.2Gb Ultra ATA hard drive and ATI's 3D Rage II+ graphics card. It also offers support for Cyrix and AMD as well as Intel CPUs, four ISA and four PCI slots, plus two USB ports and infra-red.
[January 31, 1997, 10:44]
AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
News TBR also said it expected AMD's recent announcement that chief operating officer Dirk Meyer would take the reins from chief executive Hector Ruiz following the company's history of losses, including that suffered during its $5.4bn acquisition of...
[July 21, 2008, 11:24]
AMD Phenom X4 9850 review
Reviews With that chipset, you get a 3D boost if you also opt for an ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics card, because it can then work in tandem with the 780G's integrated processor. AMD says it has fixed the issue in the higher-end chips, which affected data...
[March 28, 2008, 14:16]
S6510/Vista vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Intel X3100 Grahpics.ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 display.display Intel Core2 Duo 2.2 GHz.AMD Turion 64 2.0 GHz What I want to concentrate on here is the difference between Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional.
[January 9, 2008, 13:06]
Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi review
Reviews That price is pretty steep for a notebook of this size, but it does include some high-end components: a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 dual-core processor, 2GB of fast 667MHz RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card with 512MB dedicated...
[November 8, 2006, 11:52]
Itanium workstation on the way from SGI
News It's based on the same technology, including the Linux operating system and ATI graphics hardware, as the company's higher-end Prism products introduced last October. Instead, it chose to focus on machines using AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon...
[April 26, 2005, 9:50]
An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog I found the hardware management window, and according to that, there were only a few "problems" - the built-in softmodem required a proprietary driver which had not been loaded automatically, the Atheros WiFi adapter also required one, but it had...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II review
Reviews We used an ATI Radeon HP 4870 graphics card with the 8-561-3-081217a-73402 driver and a Raid-0 array of two 250GB Western Digital disks for storage. Intel has been manufacturing desktop processors using the 45-nanometre (nm) feature size since...
[January 30, 2009, 15:34]
