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 […]
Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of microprocessors, has disclosed several details concerning its project code-named Larrabee. Apparently, the latter, despite of certain media reports, has no direct relation to Intel’s graphics processing unit’s development, but is a part of Intel’s Tera-Scale initiative, under which the company develops chips for special-purpose computing.
Intel’s code-named Larrabee processor, […]
With perhaps a month to go before launch, the next big computer chip remains a bit of a mystery, and so every shift in strategy by longtime rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is being teased for hints of the battle to come. AMD has yet to disclose the performance specifications for its new chip, […]
United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) sees the possibility of new microprocessor deals as major chip makers farm out more orders to contract chip makers, the head of the company said Wednesday. It’s an outsourcing trend the chip industry has seen before. Advanced Micro Devices, for example, announced a plan to build a joint chip factory with […]
Yesterday, AMD held a press presentation in Munich, Germany to update journalists about its upcoming K10 processor. AMD’s Giuseppe Amato, Technical Director Sales and Marketing EMEA, had a few minutes to talk about the architecture at length. The integrated memory controller (IMC) will get a few new features in the K10 core. When utilizing multiple […]