Win One Of Three AMD Dual-core Athlons
News In today's competition we have three AMD dual-core processors to give away: one top-end AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and two AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ models. With its integrated memory controller, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 removes the frontside bus (FSB...
[December 20, 2005, 11:40]
Intel's Skype Alliance Gets Dual-core Features
News The limit will remain at five callers for PCs using single-core chips and AMD's dual-core Athlon 64 chip, which some tests have shown outperforms Intel's dual-core chip. Despite both AMD and Intel releasing dual-core chips to the market last May...
[February 9, 2006, 9:00]
Dell Announces First Quad-core Servers
News The company also announced a new system based on the dual-core AMD Opteron processor and a host of other new products and services. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 now incorporates all AMD's dual-core Opteron processors.
[November 7, 2006, 16:15]
News Roundup: Computex Takes Over Taiwan
News The Computex trade show in Taiwan has played host to controversies around the latest chips from Intel and AMD, and has seen the introduction of products that could find their way into your PC soon. AMD faces tough fight with dual Athlons
[June 11, 2001, 11:33]
Skype Subpoenaed In Intel-AMD Battle
News Users with AMD dual-core chips or single-core chips are restricted to hosting five-person conference calls because only Intel's chips offer the performance necessary to host the 10-way call, according to Skype.
[March 1, 2006, 8:55]
Preview: Intel Developer Forum
News Still, by the time AMD's desktop chip hits, Intel will have an integrated dual-core notebook chip and a new dual-core desktop chip called Presler. It is likely one of the reasons the company was able to advance the commercial release of dual-core...
[February 25, 2005, 16:40]
Dell Sets Out New Product Strategy
News Along the way, Dell found time to fully embrace AMD with dual-core desktops and servers as well as a low-cost laptop. Other announcements included the new OptiPlex 740, a desktop that also features AMD technology, in this case a dual-core Athlon 64...
[November 8, 2006, 15:45]
Intel Leans Towards Higher Estimates For Second Quarter
News AMD in charge? It garnered 83.6 percent of the PC chip market during the first quarter, compared with AMD's 14.9 percent, according to Mercury. AMD's current product line makes the company the most competitive it has been in years.
[June 4, 2004, 9:10]
VMWare To Set Virtualisation Product Free
News Such technology has been available on high-end computers for years but VMware brought it to the realm of mainstream computers using x86 processors such as Intel's Pentium and AMD's Opteron. AMD's rival technology, code-named Pacifica, is scheduled...
[February 3, 2006, 16:35]
AMD Unveils Triple-gate Transistor
News AMD is also looking at dual, fin-shaped transistors as an alternate to triple-gate versions. The competition demands that we do this," said Craig Sander, vice president of process technology development for AMD.
[September 19, 2003, 11:20]
AMD Finds Sanders Successor At Motorola
News AMD will formally begin attacking the corporate market in the second half of the year with a host of technologies aimed at workstations and servers. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) turned to another chip maker to restock its executive suite -- finding...
[January 26, 2000, 10:45]
AMD Chips Fuel New Supercomputer
News The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced that the University of Delaware has installed a 128-processor supercomputer based on 1GHz AMD Athlon processors and the Linux operating system. The new supercomputer at the university's Bartol...
[January 23, 2001, 9:25]
AMD To Curb Quad-core Power Usage
News In current AMD dual-core processors, the two cores can run at slower-than-maximum speeds, but they move in tandem. The cores inside Barcelona, the quad-core chip coming from AMD later this year, are going to lead independent lives when it comes to...
[February 12, 2007, 9:29]
Dell And AMD: Will It Ever Happen?
News Then, as quickly as the compliments come, Dell executives list a host of reasons why the company won't make the move to AMD, sounding somewhat like a person who likes the sound of escargot but doesn't want a plate full of snails.
[October 26, 2004, 17:00]
First AGP Chipset To Ship Next Week
News Not to be outdone, AMD's chipset partner VIA plans to port AGP to Socket 7, allowing its K6 and other Socket 7 processors to support the standard. AGP-capable cards are already available from a host of graphics card makers.
[August 20, 1997, 11:02]
A Year Ago: First AGP Chipset To Ship Next Week
News Not to be outdone, AMD's chipset partner VIA plans to port AGP to Socket 7, allowing its K6 and other Socket 7 processors to support the standard. AGP-capable cards are already available from a host of graphics card makers.
[August 18, 1998, 7:32]
Sun Hones Blade-server Range
News Sun Microsystems on Wednesday began selling its first blade server that can run Linux, in a move that tightens Sun's ties with chipmaker AMD. Sun plans to sell systems in early 2004 that use AMD's high-end Opteron processor, which is a chip that...
[December 3, 2003, 14:00]
AMD, Intel Fortunes Diverge Over Past Year
News And the following week, AMD will host a technology analyst day at its headquarters during which it can expect to face further inquiries. Back then, AMD chose to introduce dual-core server chips ahead of Intel, which was forced to wait six months...
[July 17, 2007, 10:31]
