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AMD chips win broader Dell approval
News As expected, the world's largest PC maker announced on Thursday that it will ship Dimension desktops and two-processor servers equipped with AMD's chips by the end of the year. Its first embrace of AMD products came in May, when it announced plans...
[August 18, 2006, 8:45]
AMD chips target wireless notebook trend
News The new AMD chips will initially land in the consumer and small business markets, but the Sunnyvale, California-based company has said it will continue to try to push its laptop chips into the corporate market in 2003.
[March 12, 2003, 8:36]
AMD chips fuel new supercomputer
News The twist is that the AMD-based supercomputers currently offer only one chip per node, whereas some IBM, Sun Microsystems and Compaq Computer Alpha-based supercomputers offer up to four chips. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including...
[January 23, 2001, 9:25]
AMD speeds chips for faster chatter
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) aims to increase the performance of PCs and other computing devices with an internal connection that increases the both the speed and amount of data that get ferried between chips.
[February 15, 2001, 8:33]
AMD: Two chips better than one
News Hoping that two Athlons prove better than one, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday launched chips that will allow high-end computers to use two of AMD's flagship processors simultaneously. At a press conference at the Computex trade show here, AMD...
[June 5, 2001, 16:08]
AMD unveils new chips, cuts prices
News AMD lists these prices for chips purchased in lots of 1,000, but it negotiates individually with parties that purchase larger amounts. The announcement, as expected, comes amid a desperate race between AMD and longtime rival Intel.
[August 21, 2002, 16:09]
AMD 64-bit chips get Windows support
News A major new feature for the chips will be 64-bit addressing, which AMD has dubbed x86-64. The chips, which will debut later this year, are an important next step for AMD. It allows a chip to address much larger amounts of memory than current AMD...
[April 25, 2002, 8:47]
AMD readies revved-up chips
News AMD will rev up Athlon again with the introduction of its fastest desktop chip late this week. The chipmaker, as expected, will announce its 1.4GHz desktop Athlon processor and a new 950MHz Duron chip next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan...
[June 4, 2001, 9:29]
AMD speeds up server chips
News Now, AMD ships approximately 100,000 server chips a quarter and accounts for around 5 percent of the chips shipped into the so-called x86 server market, according to Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research.
[February 4, 2003, 7:30]
AMD packs security into chips
News As businesses and consumers become more aware of security and begin placing more emphasis on it, chipmakers such as AMD, Intel, Transmeta and VIA Technologies have responded with efforts to add more security features to their chips and related...
[February 25, 2004, 15:05]
AMD vs Intel: The chips are down
News AMD says that the range of Intel's discounts and other financial incentives means that there's nothing AMD can do - including giving its chips away - to match them. Also, it can't produce the numbers of processors or the range of support chips that...
[June 29, 2005, 13:15]
AMD readies new Athlon, Duron chips
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is keeping up the pressure on chip rival Intel AMD will shortly introduce faster Athlon and Duron chips for desktop PCs. AMD will dog Intel with frequent releases of faster Athlon chips, starting with a 1.2GHz Athlon...
[October 5, 2000, 8:09]
AMD debuts more 64-bit chips
News AMD's Athlon 64 3400+ processor largely will be aimed at high-end desktops, while the Athlon 64 2800+, 3000+ and 3200+ chips will go into notebooks. AMD also is expected to cut prices on existing chips.
[January 6, 2004, 7:30]
AMD, Intel trot out new chips
News The Athlon XP 2200+ is the AMD's first desktop chip made on the 130-nanometer manufacturing process, which means the chips are smaller, faster and less expensive to manufacture than their predecessors, which contained features measuring 180...
[June 10, 2002, 9:03]
AMD unveils two new notebook chips
News Averatec, a small computer manufacturer, has put the chip into a notebook that can convert into a tablet PC, marking the first time AMD's chips have been used in a tablet. Although AMD has managed to gain market share in consumer desktops in recent...
[July 19, 2004, 9:15]
AMD delays two quad-core chips
News In place of the delayed chips, AMD said it plans to focus on its triple-core chips and bring forward the launch of two energy-efficient Phenom processors, according to the report. AMD has delayed the launch of two of its Phenom processors.
[January 11, 2008, 15:56]
AMD launches low-cost mobile chips
News AMD and Intel both have to contend with chips from Transmeta, which claim to use far less power, though this is currently achieved somewhat at the expense of processor speed. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including interactive roadmaps...
[January 16, 2001, 12:20]
AMD, Intel prepare next generation chips
News AMD and Intel are set to unveil the official brand names of their next-generation processors, as they prepare to introduce a new wave of technology destined to replace the chips at the heart of most PCs today.
[April 17, 2000, 7:03]
AMD to unveil 'Rev F' Opteron chips
News AMD only began selling server-oriented chips in 2003 but has made major gains since then, now claiming 26 percent of the x86 server chip market, according to Mercury Research. The extra connections — a substantial increase over the 940 used in...
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
AMD touts Linux support for new chips
News Current AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium x86-based chips address 32 bits of data.x86-64 allows AMD chips to support both. AMD plans to use it in new chipsets for Hammer chips. The Linux updates for x86-64 support will come from SuSE, one of the top...
[February 28, 2002, 17:03]
