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AMD Expanding Athlon Chip Family
News It is likely that this brand will not be available for some time, as AMD has plans to continue selling its K6-2 chip, which tops out at 475MHz, and improving its K6-III chip, available now at 450MHz. AMD is expected to elaborate on these and...
[August 4, 1999, 9:34]
IDF: AMD Claws Intel With Hammer
News AMD provided the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Hammer chip on Tuesday. The Hammer family of processors will differ from other AMD chips -- and other Intel processors -- in that they will be able to run conventional 32-bit...
[February 27, 2002, 9:03]
A Year Ago: AMD Hurt By Poor K6 Yields
News AMD may be living down to its reputation for poor execution in its battle to wrestle Intel to the ground in microprocessors. Also, aggressive pricing by Intel forced AMD to cut margins lower than expected.
[October 10, 1998, 5:27]
AMD Speeds Up Server Chips
News AMD on Tuesday released a faster version of its Athlon chip for servers and workstations, an upgrade to help the company maintain its new foothold in the server processor market. Despite a spate of product delays over the past year, AMD has managed...
[February 4, 2003, 7:30]
A Year Ago: AMD Plans To Beat Intel's Best In '98
News AMD believes it will be the engine for the fastest X86-based PCs by the end of next year. Intel's Deschutes will use an off-chip cache and Baker believes that will help AMD get a performance lead. In the second half of 1998 - possibly as early as...
[October 27, 1998, 5:59]
AMD Breaks 20 Percent Barrier
News AMD has claimed its highest market-share position against Intel in years, cracking the elusive 20 percent barrier, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. Mercury Research plans to announce next week that AMD accounted for 21.4 percent of...
[January 25, 2006, 8:50]
AMD Touts Linux Support For New Chips
News The Linux updates for x86-64 support will come from SuSE, one of the top Linux developers and distributors, AMD said. SuSE has submitted updates for x84-64 to the Linux community, and AMD expects that the updates will become part of the upcoming...
[February 28, 2002, 17:03]
AMD Slashes Chip Prices
News AMD cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile processors, bringing them more in line with the prices of some Intel chips. It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company...
[January 24, 2006, 8:50]
News Burst: AMD Dumps K6-3D Moniker
News Rana Mainee, European market analysis and planning manager at AMD, said the K6-3D was just a code-name. The chip will use the super7 architecture which has a bus speed of 100MHz and supports AGP. Highlighting the loss of the term 3D in the chip's...
[May 1, 1998, 16:48]
AMD To Cut 10 Percent Of Workforce
News AMD said on Monday it would cut 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,680 jobs, and gave a first-quarter revenue estimate below expectations, sending its shares down as much as five percent. Citing lower-than-expected sales across its business...
[April 8, 2008, 8:33]
AMD Rolls Out Phenom Chips
News AMD on Wednesday unveiled new microprocessors for the desktop PC market, in a move that could sharpen its competitive edge against rival Intel. Among the chips in AMD's Phenom family of processors is one that has three cores, compared with the two...
[March 27, 2008, 7:17]
AMD Adds Alchemy To Its Chip Arsenal
News AMD said Wednesday that it would acquire Alchemy Semiconductor, maker of MIPS-based chips for devices such as PDAs and MP3 players. AMD will also establish a Personal Connectivity Solutions business unit for non-PC connectivity devices.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
AMD Beats Expectations
News AMD topped expectations for fourth-quarter revenue on the back of strong processor sales across desktops, notebooks and servers. That figure includes sales of flash memory up until the final five days of the quarter, when AMD's Spansion joint...
[January 19, 2006, 10:45]
AMD Turbocharges Athlon 64
News As expected, AMD increased the clock speed by 200MHz to 2.4GHz in order to boost performance and create the FX-53 model. AMD understands that extreme PC users crave performance; they demand graphic images that are nearly indistinguishable from...
[March 19, 2004, 10:40]
AMD Narrows Intel Gap, Boosts Hammer
News AMD gained a bit of ground on Intel in the first quarter, bolstered in part by growth in the markets for notebook and server chips, according to a research study. The market share figures, to some degree, reflect the increased success AMD is having...
[May 1, 2002, 8:44]
AMD's Duron Completes Ambitious Line-up
News AMD Monday launched its latest assault on Intel's low-cost Celeron processor, announcing the Duron processor is available in full production volumes. Duron is based on the core technology of Athlon, AMD's latest chip architecture.
[June 20, 2000, 8:55]
AMD To Unveil Athlon XP 3000+ Chip
News AMD on Monday will beef up its desktop processor line with a new Athlon XP 3000+ chip. The chip, based on AMD's new "Barton" processor core, represents a potential bright spot for the company, after a year of difficulty brought on by the sluggish...
[February 10, 2003, 7:46]
AMD Cuts Chip Prices
News AMD cut the prices on a wide variety of processors on Monday as it gears up for back-to-school buying. The new prices can be found here, on AMD's Web site. Years ago, setting pricing was easy for AMD.
[August 2, 2005, 9:25]
Comdex: AMD Steps Up The Pressure
News At this week's Comdex, AMD detailed its plans to build on recent successes in consumer PCs with a push on the commercial and notebook sector. Early in 1999, AMD plans to release Sharptooth, a successor to its K6-2 processor aimed at the mainstream...
[November 18, 1998, 22:50]
AMD Embeds Athlon In New Geode
News AMD has extended its range of low-power Geode x86 processors. This is another step away from using a pure speed rating for differentiation, a trend AMD started in 2002 with its PC processors. The new chip is called the AMD Geode NX 1500@6W, which...
[May 25, 2004, 12:10]
