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AMD's man of the future
News AMD might not be planning a huge change in the way it makes chips this year, but that doesn't mean Phil Hester doesn't have a lot on his mind. The new chief technology officer went to AMD last year from Newisys, an early designer of servers built...
[June 7, 2006, 16:30]
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 alliance 'doesn't undermine Intel' - HP
News AMD's Opteron currently outperforms Intel's Xeon, but HP expects the two chipmakers to leapfrog each other in coming years, Stallard said. HP, following IBM and Sun Microsystems, on Tuesday became the third of the four major server sellers to use...
[February 25, 2004, 9:05]
AMD moves to protect intellectual property
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the appointment of its first vice president of intellectual property, bringing over Motorola veteran Harry Wolin for the office. AMD said the new vice president will help manage AMD's patents in flash...
[September 5, 2000, 12:42]
AMD and Intel gear up for dual-core demos
News AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight.
[August 31, 2004, 9:00]
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 could Hammer Intel - analyst
News AMD is due to launch the processors at the end of next year. The two chips will take AMD and Intel in radically different directions. AMD's on the other hand, is called x86-64, and extends the instruction set in use today.
[September 8, 2000, 15:44]
AMD responds to details of Intel's antitrust violations
Blog Following the European Commission's publication on Monday of how Intel broke anticompetition laws, rival chipmaker AMD - the wronged party in this particular case - has predicted further revelations stemming from other cases.
[September 22, 2009, 12:14]
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 dissolves Alchemy product line
News AMD unloaded its Alchemy line of microprocessors on Tuesday, selling the product to Raza Microelectronics. Rumours about the impending move were in circulation a few weeks ago, prior to AMD's analyst meeting.
[June 14, 2006, 10:55]
AMD launches low-power six-core Opterons
News AMD has introduced three new six-core processors — the first six-core chips in the Opteron line-up to fall into the low-powered HE range. According to AMD, the processors are particularly suited to web servers and machines handling cloud-computing...
[July 14, 2009, 13:13]
AMD claims to deliver on SP2
News AMD on Monday trumpeted a chip feature called Enhanced Virus Protection, which works with an update of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system to thwart some viruses and worms -- malicious software that devours data or clogs up email servers.
[August 10, 2004, 8:55]
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 maps out server plans for next two years
News AMD will unveil a new chip design in 2009 for the server market and faster versions of its Barcelona quad-core chip later this year, company executives said on Thursday. AMD's short-term goal is to get its Barcelona quad-core chip out into the market.
[July 30, 2007, 7:48]
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 drops on downgrade
News Shares of AMD slumped 2 to 60 3/4 after an analyst downgrade Monday morning. He also expressed concern over the fact that AMD uses different packaging formats across its chip lines, as opposed to competitor Intel.
[August 7, 2000, 15:31]
AMD issues 64-bit Hammer spec
News Rejuvenated microprocessor manufacturer AMD continued its drive towards 64-bit computing with the release of specifications for it forthcoming 64-bit "Hammer" family of microprocessors Wednesday. AMD's Hammer microprocessors are also, by contrast...
[August 10, 2000, 10:51]
AMD's Turion gets a second core
News AMD has gone dual-core across the board with the expected release of the Turion 64 X2 processors on Wednesday. The Turion processor was AMD's first major effort to build a processor designed specifically for notebooks, and it now has two cores...
[May 17, 2006, 8:55]
AMD posts loss as PC sales dwindle
News A slowdown in PC buying resulted in a sizable loss and a large decline in revenue for chipmaker AMD. AMD's revenue for the second quarter, ended 30 June, came to $600m (£392m), and the company reported a net loss of $184.9m, or 54 cents a share.
[July 18, 2002, 9:04]
AMD opens up chip design on two fronts
News AMD aims to take advantage of local talent in a similar manner in Bangalore, where it hopes to have a team of 40 engineers in place by the end of this year. AMD is out to create a variety of new chips to help it boost revenue and profit, and gain a...
[September 21, 2004, 14:25]
