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AMD Plans Six-Processor Chip

AMD Expands Intel Accusations

よく知られていることがだと思っていたが・・。証拠が出てきたと言うことかな。 Aside from large U.S. PC makers, the latest AMD documents address Intel's dealings with manufacturers that include Acer Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd., which bought IBM…

Race Is On to Advance Software for Chips

AMD quad-core chip hits compatibility snag

AMD confirmed Monday that high-end quad-core Phenom processors have compatibility problems with some motherboards due to a mismatch with the chipset. 消費電力が問題なんて,とても渋い。 Whitman is referring to the fact that the high-end 975…

AMD launches first computer brand

「AMD Business Class」というネーミングはどうだろう AMD said Business Class is initially aimed at the small- and medium-size business market, but is also designed to scale up to the biggest corporate clients as well. The desktops include AM…

AMD Sets Major Pitch For Small, Midsize Firms

魅力に乏しい。 The Sunnyvale, Calif., semiconductor company on Monday expects to unveil an initiative -- code-named Hardcastle and now renamed AMD Business Class -- that comes with a "platform" of chip technologies to help PC makers build …

Sun Microsystems Buys Montalvo

x86絡みの半導体のベンチャーを米Sun Microsystemsが買収という話。 Montalvo, which revealed few details about its plans, attracted attention because it was widely believed to be attempting the tough task of taking on Intel Corp. and Advanced …

A Small Loss, and a Warning, by A.M.D.

AMD Posts Narrower Loss Amid 'Challenging' Environment

AMD's Technology Chief Resigns

Technology Chief Quits Advanced Micro Devices

AMD's New Server Chip Set for Wide Distribution

AMD Warns of Low Sales and Job Cuts

AMD to Cut 10% of Work Force

A.M.D. to Cut 1,600 Jobs as It Lowers Forecast

米AMDが従業員の10%に相当する160o人をレイオフ。米Intelとの競争激化や米ATIの買収費,チップの不具合など問題山積である。一時は米Intelが不具合を連発してAMDの追い上げを許したが,因果は巡るである。

Dell Pares Back Sales Of AMD-Based PCs

何がDellとAMDの間にあったのだろう。 Dell Inc. has stopped selling most consumer systems that use Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips through Dell's popular Web site.The big computer company said it still plans to keep selling the AMD-based m…

A.M.D. Posts Loss, Writing Down Acquisition

The Hard Case Against Intel

独占禁止法をめぐる話。米AMDの訴えを受けて、ニューヨーク州が米Intelの調査に乗り出した。 http://:title=New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo served Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) with demands for information he'll use as he tries to show that I…

Start-Up Can Cool Specific Parts of Chips That Get Too Hot

十分怪しげだが・・・ Now, a small Durham, N.C., company called Nextreme Inc. says it has found a way to make chips cool again. The company, a spinoff of research institute RTI International, has developed a technology it says can lower tem…

AMD Vows Not to Repeat Missteps

Supercomputing for the Masses

AMD Hits Snag with Barcelona Chip

A.M.D. Delays Energy-Efficient Chip Again

AMD to Unveil Chip Platform

「マイクロプロセッサに魅力がなければプラットフォ−ムがあっても」ということか。 Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is finally delivering the fruits of a costly acquisition. But the company still won't match the speed of Intel Corp.'s latest chips.A…

Intel Ramps Up Development Adding to Pressures on AMD

AMD's Latest Intel Counterattack

興味深いデータである。 In a report to Congress published Aug. 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt hours in 2006?enough power to run 5.8 million households, and more than the powe…

A New Entry From A.M.D. in Chip Wars

Quad-coreのOpteron(開発コード名:Barcelona)の話。IntelのXeonを一歩リード。 A.M.D.’s product introduction comes less than a week after Intel tried to upstage it with a server update of its own: new Xeon server processors that bundle toget…

Tilera Unveils Details for Multicore Chips

MIT出身者が設立したスタートアップ米Tilera Corp.がマイクロプロセッサを拾うという話。1000個の演算エンジンを内蔵可能という。 Tilera's technology isn't targeted at computers, a market where chip makers such as Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro De…

AMD invests $7.5 million in Transmeta

Transmetaと言えば低消費電力。サーバーの消費電力が問題となるなか,再び脚光を浴び始めたということか。 He noted that AMD plans to further use Transmeta's energy-efficient technologies in its chips.

Billionaire Thinks in Trillions for His Computer Designs

米Sun Microsystemsの創設者Andreas Bechtolsheimが開発したスーパーコンピュータ“Constellation”の話。日本のスーパーコンピュータはもう陳腐化? Today, at a high-performance computing conference in Dresden, Germany, he plans to introduce his newe…