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• Analyst initiations 8-02-07: AAPL, AMD, IBM, INTC and SUNW

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:16 am

  Tags: Aapl, Advanced Micro, Advancedmicro, Amd, Analyst, Apple, Cdc Corp, Cdccorp, China, Dell, Hewlette Packard, Hewlettepackard, Hpq, Ibm, Initiation, Intc, Intel, Iphone, Ipod, National Semi, Nationalsemi, Nsm, Nuva, Nuvasive, Pcz, Petro Canada, Rating, Sun, Sunw, Texas, Txn

  Business Machines (IBM), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Sun Microsystems (SUNW), Texas Instruments (TXN), Analyst initiations, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to SellMOST NOTEWORTHY: Apple (AAPL), large-cap semis, and CDC Corp (CHINA) were today's noteworthy initiations: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was initiated with a Buy rating and $160 target at Banc of

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• Earnings highlights: Tech stocks strong, financials weak

  Published: October 20, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Aapl, Advanced Micro Devices, Altria Group, Amazon Com, Amd, Amzn, Apple, At T, Bac, Bank Of America, Boeing, Boston Scientific, Bsx, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Credit Crunch, Dna, Domino S Pizza, Dpz, Earnings Reports, Ebay, Eric, Ericssen, Financial Stocks, Gannett, Gci, Genetech

  reports, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), Pfizer (PFE), Coca-Cola (KO), Intel (INTC), Motorola (MOT), McDonald's (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Altria Group (MO), Bank of America (BAC),

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• Intel's 45nm Penryn desktop expected to pack a big wallop

  Published: November 12, 2007, 10:19 am

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Barcelona, Chip, Core 2 Extreme, Desktop, Dual Core, Intel, Penryn, Processor, Quad Core, Technology, Xeon

  "Intel Corp.'s new 45-nanometer chip for the desktop, part of the newly read more

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• AMD delays Barcelona (again), turns attention to Brisbane

  Published: December 6, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: 65nm, Advanced Micro Devices, Advancedmicrodevices, Amd, Barcelona, Brisbane, Chip, Cpu, K10, Phenom

  keep it together, can you? Advanced Micro Devices, a company known for its share of "issues," has once again delayed its much-hyped, energy efficient Barcelona CPU. Apparently, a technical irregularity has caused the company to push back the release date for widespread availability of the chip until sometime early next year. The glitch, which

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• The Official Advanced Micro Devices and ATI Technologies Sucks Website is LIVE

  Published: December 15, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Complaints Consumer Amd Advanced Micro Devices Ati Gaming

  work well (or at all) with Microsoft Vista. This is about holding AMD and ATI accountable for their indiscretion, deceptive marketing and misleading advertising of ATI Radeon video cards. This is about a company that thinks screwing consumers is the way back to profitability. The official AMD & ATI Sucks Website:

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• AMD's financial woes don't stop Hector Ruiz from nabbing a raise

  Published: December 14, 2007, 7:25 pm

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Advancedmicrodevices, Amd, Ceo, Chipmaker, Hector Ruiz, Hectorruiz, Raise

  Filed under: Desktops, Laptops In most jobs, if you cost the company money and generally screw up, you can expect a solid dressing-down from the management and then a swift boot out the door. Unless you run a major corporation like AMD. If you're Hector Ruiz, CEO of the ailing chipmaker, you can freely and openly admit to fouling up the works and

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• AMD denies Ruiz raise, says it's just a misunderstanding

  Published: December 17, 2007, 6:23 pm

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Advancedmicrodevices, Amd, Chipmaker, Hector Ruiz, Hectorruiz, Raise, Salary

  public relations people at Advanced Micro Devices. Apparently, the confusion stems from a pay raise that the honcho received in 2006; somehow the change in figures halfway through the year led to a proxy statement of $1,046,358 -- the supposed new salary. The "clarification" still leaves a few questions unanswered, but at least for now we can

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• AMD's CES 2008 booth tour

  Published: January 9, 2008, 9:01 am

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Advancedmicrodevices, Amd, Booth Tour, Boothtour, Ces 2008, Ces2008

  CES, Features As sleepy has Microsoft and Intel's booths were this year, they paled in comparison to AMD's showing. Situated in what was essentially a thruway / food court, the sad little cube that was the chipmaker's booth made us feel generally bad. Hey -- it's possible they're just not too worried about CES, and that's fine -- with no new

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• Earnings highlights: Intel, IBM, GM, Apple, AMD, and others

  Published: January 19, 2008, 6:10 am

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Amd, Amr, Ati, Earnings, Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Transcripts, Ebay, Edu, Etfn, Etrade, General Motors, Georges Yared, Ibm, Intc, Intel, Jci, Jim Cramer, Johnson Controls, Macworld, Microsoft, Mot, Motorola, Msft, New Oriental, Nok, Nokia, Novartis

  Business Machines (IBM), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), AMR Corp (AMR), Johnson Controls (JCI)Here are a few highlights of this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) had a lackluster quarter due in part to the acquistion of ATI. AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR) posted a

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• AMD: A big mess right now

  Published: April 8, 2008, 4:47 am

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, Advancedmicrodevices, Amd, Chip Makers, Chipmakers, Intc, Intel, Inthenews, Microsoft, Msft, Tech Stocks, Techstocks

  under: Forecasts, Bad news, Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Employees, Advanced Micro Dev (AMD)Poor Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). The company's stock has been a terrible performer as of late, and the chip maker delivered another batch of bad news to shareholders Monday. According to the following article, AMD intends on eliminating 10% of

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• Disappointing Earnings, Fed's Caution Lead to Moderate Pullback in Stocks

  Published: April 9, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Disappointing, Earnings, Fed S, Caution, Lead, Moderate, Pullback, Stocks, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, U S Federal Reserve, Alcoa Inc, Wall Street, Avandia, Dow Jones Amp Co Inc, Glaxosmithkline Plc, Novellus Systems Inc, Standard Amp Poor S, Washington Mutual Inc

  NEW YORK, April 8 -- Wall Street retreated Tuesday after the aluminum producer Alcoa and the computer-chip maker Advanced Micro Devices issued disappointing reports and the Federal Reserve voiced concerns about the slumping economy.

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• Antitrust Inquiry Launched Into Intel

  Published: June 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Antitrust, Inquiry, Launched, Into, Intel, Intel Corporation, U S Federal Trade Commission, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, United States, Tom Mccoy, European Union, David Balto, Deborah Platt Majoras, Ed Black, Japan, William E Kovacic, Computer Amp Communications Industry

  The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into whether Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has used its dominance to illegally stifle its few competitors.

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• AMD to take nearly $1 billion loss for the quarter -- but only issues $32 million in pink slips [Layoffs]

  Published: July 11, 2008, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Layoffs, Advanced Micro Devices, Amd, Ati, Hardware

  Advanced Micro Devices will take a $948 million charge for Q2, the company announced this morning. Much like last year, the bulk of the writedown is due to the declining value of the company's ATI acquisition, for which it paid $5.4 billion in 2006. The resulting lines of cellphone graphics chips and digital TV chips just haven't sold as

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• The week in preview: Expectations as the earnings crunch begins

  Published: July 13, 2008, 8:30 am

  Tags: Abbot Labs, Abt, Advanced Micro Devices, Alcoa, Altera, Altr, Amd, Bax, Baxter, Cal, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, Csx, Dal, Danaher, Delta Air Lines, Dhr, Earnings, Earnings Crunch, Earnings Season, Eaton, Ebay, Economic Data, Etn, Gannet, Gci, General Electric, Genuine P

  Forecasts, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), eBay (EBAY), Coca-Cola (KO), Intel (INTC), International Business Machines (IBM), Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Baxter Intl (BAX), Safeway Inc (SWY), Gannett Co (GCI), Yum Brands (YUM), Mattel, Inc (MAT),

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• Stocks Close A Big Week With a Whimper

  Published: July 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Stocks, Close, Big, Week, With, Whimper, Google Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Joshua Shapiro, Lori Calvasina, Walter Pritchard, United States, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, Standard Amp Poor S, Yahoo Inc, Arthur Hogan, Laura Martin, San Francisco, Advanced Micro Devic

  U.S. stocks limped to the end of a volatile week yesterday as the financial sector continued a three-day rebound even while weakness emerged in technology stocks when Google and Microsoft reported disappointing earnings.

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