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Latest AMD snub cuts both ways
News Tuesday's announcement is a "big blow for AMD because Gateway was one of their volume sellers", said Roger Kay, an analyst at IDC. Kay added that, theoretically, "It could be that Intel was willing to give some of its lower-volume customers better...
[September 26, 2001, 8:55]
MMX will wait on optimised apps - AMD
News MMX will go into AMD's 'K6' code-named CPU which will sample in December 1996 or January 1997, with volume delivery expected for March. Volume availability will be early in 1997. AMD said today it will add MMX instructions to its chips for the...
[August 6, 1996, 11:10]
AMD samples MMX K6 CPU
News The Texan firm expects to have the chip available in volume in March or April 1997, laying down a serious challenge to Intel's virtual monopoly. Beating its deadline by a month, AMD has begun sampling its first processor with MMX instructions...
[November 14, 1996, 10:50]
A Year Ago: AMD plans K6 MMX massacre
News A number of manufacturers will be demonstrating PCs based on the chip, and volume shipments are expected to start at about the same time. If you're planning to go to CeBit in Hannover this March, be careful which aisles you walk down.
[January 23, 1998, 9:49]
AMD plans K6 MMX massacre
News A number of manufacturers will be demonstrating PCs based on the chip, and volume shipments are expected to start at about the same time. If you're planning to go to CeBit in Hannover this March, be careful which aisles you walk down.
[January 23, 1997, 14:17]
Earnings: AMD shatters its Q1 numbers
News So we're not relying on any K6 volume in the second half of the year. "Q1 was a great start to the new millenium at AMD," chairmand and CEO W.J. Sanders III told analysts during a Wednesday afternoon conference call.
[April 13, 2000, 8:36]
ABIT readies 100MHz Socket 7 AGP board
News ABIT expects volume production of the IT5A board in February. Taiwan's ABIT today lent a hand to the non-Intel x86 world by announcing the first 100MHz Socket 7 AGP motherboard. Formerly, users wanting access to Intel's accelerated graphics port...
[January 20, 1998, 10:41]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Diary
News Nobody is going to come near Intel's volume in the next five years but AMD has real manufacturing capability and the word on the street is that this one is a flier. Intel is hosting a press conference for its MMX processors.
[November 16, 1996, 7:00]
AMD readies cut-price P-166 alternative
News The K5-PR166 slots straight into Socket 7 motherboards and will be available in volume by April. Intel touted the 166MHz Pentium as its volume part for Christmas buyers, although now it has released processors with MMX technology, it retains a...
[January 14, 1997, 9:07]
Intel debuts higher-speed Celeron
News We want to have the products at volume sweet spots at or ahead of the competition. The first Y2K microprocessor is .a Celeron. Intel introduced Tuesday a 533MHz Celeron processor for value-priced desktop PCs.
[January 5, 2000, 9:32]
Tough times for AMD - needs more than cuts
News Intel has positioned its Pentium III 450MHz chip as its next major volume product and AMD has had to match it with its K6-3. In its attempts to keep up with Intel's latest product realignment, AMD has made swinging cuts to maintain its policy of...
[May 18, 1999, 10:47]
A Year Ago: AMD K6 aims for the stars
News Volume availability is expected by April. AMD believes the arrival of its K6 with MMX instructions will finally give it some real ammunition to take on Intel. The Texan chip maker hasn't been able to provide its arch-rival with any real headaches...
[November 14, 1997, 11:00]
Five years ago: AMD K6 aims for the stars
News Volume availability is expected by April. The Texan chip maker hasn't been able to provide its arch-rival with any real headaches since it introduced its 386 chips way back in 1990 but now has a genuine contender in the K6.
[November 13, 2001, 6:00]
AMD launches low-cost mobile chips
News Duron, AMD's "value" chip based on the Athlon core, will be available in NEC's LaVie U series of notebooks from 25 January and are shipping in volume immediately. The chip is available in speed grades of 600MHz and 700MHz for $75 (£50) and $123...
[January 16, 2001, 12:20]
AMD's Duron coming next week
News AMD is expected to announce volume shipments of its new low-cost processor, Duron, next week. Sources had indicated the chip would be available last week. The new chip is eventually to replace the K6 line, although the two will coexist in the near...
[June 16, 2000, 15:29]
Compaq to tap AMD for notebooks
News Intel may be steering even more desktop PC volume its way after cutting prices on the 233MHz Pentium II but grabbing a chunk of the world's number one PC vendor's products remains a huge win for AMD. AMD announced yesterday it had begun shipping a...
[January 7, 1998, 10:47]
Duron arrives in volume
News AMD Monday announced volume shipments of its new low-cost processor, Duron, which competes with Intel's Celeron in the sub-£600 PC market. As reported last week by ZDNet UK, Duron is available immediately in speeds of 700MHz, 650MHz and 600MHz.
[June 19, 2000, 10:09]
IBM finds gold in copper
News Motorola is now shipping the G4 product, but not in any significant volume, much to Apple's dismay," he said. Two years ago, IBM invested in performance-improving copper interconnect technology, and Thursday said it had shipped its one-millionth...
[September 24, 1999, 9:27]
A Year Ago: IBM finds gold in copper
News Motorola is now shipping the G4 product, but not in any significant volume, much to Apple's dismay," he said. IBM is making a good living from copper, and expanding its horizons. Two years ago, IBM invested in performance-improving copper...
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
Compaq Armada 100S review
Reviews The right-hand side carries an infrared port and a useful hardware volume control for the audio subsystem, while the left-hand side is home to a CardBus-compliant PC Card slot and an RJ-11 port for the internal 56Kbit/s modem.
[October 17, 2000, 0:00]
