With Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long-chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.
After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mind-share woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, […]
Next month heralds the 2008 Spring Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China. Pre-show briefings opened up with a quick mention on the status of Larrabee, Intel’s upcoming graphics core.
Larrabee differs significantly from AMD’s Radeon and NVIDIA’s GeForce processors. For starters, Larrabee is based on the x86 instruction set found in CPU architecture. […]
AMD yesterday held its 2007 Financial Analyst Day in which it revealed its updated corporate roadmap. AMD has a flurry of new platform releases planned out for 2008, 2009 and 2010 and, contrary to previous analysts days, the company had no problem detailing its initiatives in full depth.
AMD’s recent Spider launch marked AMD’s first foray […]
Retailers and distributors began to solidify the final details of AMD’s upcoming Phenom processors. Conversations with various e-tailers reveal the SKUs along with the retail prices (not bulk pricing) of three upcoming Phenom processors.
Manufacturers are currently setting the launch price of AMD’s Phenom X4 9500, which features a 95-Watt thermal envelope and a 2.2GHz operating […]
AMD today released six new 45 Watt AMD Athlon and Sempron processors. This is the company’s third silent launch this year.
In addition to the new chips, AMD today also implemented new price cuts, further slashing the prices of its Athlon chips. The new chips and price cuts are most likely the final product releases and […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The move by AMD, which until the middle of last year had a leg up on its far larger rival Intel Corp, could help it garner a bigger portion of the overall desktop personal computer market, the Sunnyvale, California, company said. AMD and Intel currently sell processors with a single, double […]
Shortly after the European Commission issued a Statement of Objections against Intel asseverating that it used unfair and unlawful tactics against AMD, Intel has fired back a statement of its own in response. Put simply, Intel declared that it is “confident that the microprocessor market segment is functioning normally and that Intel’s conduct has […]
Research firm iSuppli estimates that during the second quarter of 2007, AMD accounted for around 11.4% of worldwide microprocessor sales. That’s an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the first quarter, and puts an end to a reign of falling market share for AMD.
It’s not exactly a huge victory for AMD. The company posted a […]
An executive from Advanced Micro Devices said that while both ATI, graphics product group of AMD, as well as Nvidia Corp. have been talking about general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) for years, the capability will only become popular sometime after 2010, when more advanced compilers become available and after Microsoft releases its […]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced its latest round of desktop processor price cuts on Monday, and rival Intel Corp. is expected to follow the move later this month.
AMD slashed prices on its top-of-the-line desktop PC microprocessors on Monday to US$599 per pair for the 3GHz version from US$799, making it the same price as […]