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AMD carves entry into device market
News AMD is jumping into the market for consumer electronics with a new line of chips for home networking equipment, Web tablets and eventually handhelds. The division is largely the result of AMD's acquisition of Alchemy Semiconductor in February, said...
[April 8, 2002, 9:14]
AMD wins small victory in antitrust fight
News AMD won a small victory in its antitrust case on Wednesday, prevailing on a dispute about whether Intel would share information from operations outside the United States. Concurring with AMD's request, a judicially appointed special master...
[December 29, 2006, 8:51]
AMD Processor Performance Evaluation Guide
White Papers This white paper is intended for use by those, particularly in the hardware review community, who are interested in evaluating AMD64 performance, as demonstrated by the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors.
[November 25, 2003, 4:37]
The Day Ahead: AMD success gives Needham analyst right to crow
News After about year, AMD has rocketed up to about $65 (£40.92) a share. And aside from AMD chief Jerry Sanders, perhaps no one is more vindicated than Needham & Co.analyst Tad LaFountain. You might recall LaFountain was the lone analyst that had a...
[April 13, 2000, 12:23]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks
Talkback I always knew that AMD processors were superior to Intel ones - be it the number of instruction pipelines used, graphics capabilities or whatever. I've been keeping in touch with the development of the Athlon 64 for quite some time now and its...
[February 18, 2004, 13:34]
Earnings: AMD shatters its Q1 numbers
News "Q1 was a great start to the new millenium at AMD," chairmand and CEO W.J. AMD's original goal of shipping more than 25 million processors this year -- more than half coming from Athlon -- "could prove conservative," Sanders said.
[April 13, 2000, 8:36]
AMD: No Dell deal
News AMD would love to have the business, but company officials said this week that despite reports that it was close to a deal to sell chips to Dell Computer, there has been "no change" in the relationship between the two companies.
[April 6, 2000, 12:40]
AMD, and why the $100 PC is inevitable
Talkback You know AMD has gone a long way. Now I see HP looking at the compatition and it's AMD shot to move ahead into the futur neck and neck with Intel. I remember the days when HP and Pentium was loyal pairing in computers.
[April 29, 2005, 3:18]
News Burst: AMD samples next-generation Athlons
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has begun shipping samples of its next-generation Athlon processor, code-named Thunderbird, in its latest bid to keep ahead of chip giant Intel, according to a report. Thunderbird, due to roll out in mass-market volumes...
[April 6, 2000, 10:33]
AMD and Intel war over benchmarks
News Intel has begun offering a "training class" to channel customers, directly targeting rival AMD's new policy of emphasising model numbers over clock speeds. The class charges that AMD's Athlon XP 2000+ chip does not live up to its model number ranking.
[April 3, 2002, 14:07]
AMD starts shipping its 65nm chips
News AMD has started to ship chips made on the 65-nanometre process, as the manufacturing spat with Intel heats up. AMD chips made on the 65-nanometre (nm) process will consume about 30 percent less energy than the same chips produced on the 90nm...
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
AMD files to learn Intel's secrets
News Chipmaker AMD has filed a legal action to obtain confidential documents about Intel's business practices in an effort to prod a European Commission investigation into the chip giant. Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has filed a motion with the US...
[October 25, 2001, 9:06]
AMD busts out 850MHz Athlon
News Execution" is the most important word heard around AMD's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters these days, as the company, steeped in its rivalry with Intel, strives to be the speediest chip maker. The Athlon chip is manufactured at AMD's Austin...
[February 11, 2000, 13:11]
Intel, AMD to trim chip prices
News The processor skirmishes will start again this week as Intel and AMD cut prices on their desktop chips. As a result, AMD chips typically sell for less than the posted price. AMD, for example, plans to introduce a 1900+ Athlon during the quarter.
[October 29, 2001, 8:43]
AMD fires up 1.1GHz Athlon demo
News AMD pulled the wraps off a 1.1GHz version of the next-generation Athlon processor with its forthcoming Thunderbird processor core at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco.
[February 8, 2000, 8:52]
AMD targets portable video players
News AMD launched its latest microprocessor on Monday claiming it would herald a "new era of portable multimedia". AMD says the chip is optimised to support mobile devices such as personal media players, and could power the video equivalent of a digital...
[January 4, 2005, 15:40]
AMD faces revenue gloom
News AMD announced its second-quarter revenue figures ahead of schedule on Thursday, and investors are not going to be pleasantly surprised. AMD's revenue for the second quarter is expected to be $1.21bn, a 52 percent increase compared with the same...
[July 7, 2006, 9:25]
AMD tucks into server market
News AMD is still making strides in the server market at Intel's expense, as the larger company waits to see if a new processor can reverse its slide. AMD on Monday said it increased its share of the x86 server processor market to 25.9 percent, a number...
[August 1, 2006, 9:35]
AMD's Thoroughbred leaves the starting gate review
Reviews The Athlon XP/2200+ is AMD’s first desktop processor built using a 0.13-micron fabrication process. Integrating AMD’s new processors into PCs will require new voltages to be available on motherboards.
[June 18, 2002, 16:34]
Intel, AMD chop chip prices
News The processor skirmishes have started again, with Intel and AMD cutting prices on their desktop PC chips. As a result, AMD chips typically sell for less than the posted price. Rival chipmaker AMD followed on Monday with price cuts of its own on the...
[October 30, 2001, 8:46]
