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Advanced Micro Signs Supply Deal With Alcatel
News Under the deal, Advanced Micro will provide Alcatel with memory units to support Alcatel products such as high-speed digital subscriber line modems, cellular phones and telecommunications infrastructure, the companies said in a statement.
[April 3, 2000, 14:09]
Intel Closes In On 2GHz
News The new Pentium 4 will likely invigorate the debate between processor aficionados over which company -- Intel or Advanced Micro Devices -- rules the performance roost. It's another move in the ongoing chess game between Intel and Advanced Micro...
[April 9, 2001, 9:07]
Xen Getting Multiprocessor Support
News Also on tap is support for Intel's Virtualisation Technology (VT), which is expected to ease Xen's operating system compatibility, and support for the 64-bit extensions that expand memory capacity for newer x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and...
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News While computers such as NEC's Earth Simulator are still preferred for some tasks, such as weather prediction, researchers have found that most applications can be run on clusters of two- and four-processor assemblies from Intel or Advanced Micro...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News Utah's Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory: a 2,816-processor cluster will be used to study nuclear stockpiling, while a...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
Apple To Ditch PowerPC For Intel Processors
News Over the years, Apple has discussed potential deals with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, chipmaker representatives have said. Intel dominates the PC processor business, with an 81.7 percent market share in the first quarter of 2005, compared with...
[June 6, 2005, 9:10]
EMC And AMD Lead Techs South
News The Nasdaq lost almost 4 percent at midday Friday, as EMC and Advanced Micro Devices led technology stocks south. Advanced Micro Devices plunged $6.89 to $21.75 after the chipmaker said second-quarter sales will miss estimates by a wide margin.
[July 9, 2001, 14:07]
Intel Closes In On 1,000MHz Chip
News Advanced Micro Devices is expected to announce an 800MHz Athlon chip in early January. Intel, however, is becoming more aggressive with its processor introductions in light of competition from Advanced Micro Devices, whose Athlon chip burst on the...
[December 17, 1999, 10:04]
AMD Leapfrogs Estimates
News A shift towards higher-end, higher-priced chips carried Advanced Micro Devices to a better-than-expected fourth quarter. After market close on Wednesday, the maker of PC processors reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $15.8m, or 5 cents per share...
[January 17, 2002, 11:45]
AMD Touts Linux Support For New Chips
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that it expects the next major public update for the Linux operating system to include support for the company's x86-64 technology -- the basis for its next generation of processors, known as the...
[February 28, 2002, 17:03]
Intel To Cut Prices - Desperate Times For AMD
News That could help Advanced Micro Devices Inc.get out of the punch-drunk daze of where it is today, with average selling prices of its processors bottoming out in the $70 range and pressure from Intel mounting.
[May 28, 1999, 8:21]
Salesforce.com Signs Large Deal With AMD
News Software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com has signed one of its largest deals ever, a three-year contract with Advanced Micro Devices, Salesforce said on Monday. AMD has agreed to buy Salesforce's set of customer service, sales and marketing...
[November 11, 2003, 11:10]
Intel Ships The Pentium 4
News The Pentium 4 also promises a significant clock-speed advantage over Advanced Micro Devices's current Athlon -- but that doesn't necessarily mean the Pentium 4 is faster. In the SPEC [integer performance] numbers, I think Pentium 4 beats Athlon...
[November 20, 2000, 12:23]
Transmeta Investigating Taiwan Foundries
News Unlike chip behemoths like Intel or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), they are extremely flexible, able to manufacture everything from embedded chips to chipsets to full-on processors. The move to Taiwan could be the next stage of Transmeta's...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Chip Heavyweights Hope Alliance Adds Up
News Meanwhile, several other companies, including Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor, have expressed a keen interest in making chips for the consumer-electronics, embedded-processor and networking markets.
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Prescott Makes Play For Living Room
News Manufacturing advances will also mean that processors on the Prescott design will proliferate more quickly across the price spectrum of computers than many predecessors, thereby putting pressure on Advanced Micro Devices.
[January 27, 2004, 11:50]
Sun May Shelter Java Users From SCO
News Sun, in fact, will try to erode Linux's growth in the marketplace by promoting a version of Solaris that runs on servers with chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. A Sun representative said the program, if executed, would probably apply only...
[September 11, 2003, 9:40]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
News IBM has also recently licensed technology to Advanced Micro Devices and Microsoft for that company's Xbox. Meanwhile, Samsung has also licensed IBM Microelectronics' 90-nanometre chipmaking technology for use in manufacturing system-on-chip, or SOC...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
New Chips Aimed At Faster Mobile Phones
News Analog Devices, will also announce this week its first DSP chip based on the Micro Signal Architecture, a new DSP core the company developed through a partnership with Intel. Intel has also said it will use the Micro Signal DSP core to target 2.5G...
[February 19, 2001, 11:47]
Merrill Upbeat On Chip Stocks
News Along with the note, Merrill Lynch announced a slew of ratings upgrades: RF Micro Devices, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Texas Instruments and United Microelectronics were upgraded to "buy" from "accumulate".
[August 1, 2001, 16:19]
