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| 3.0GHz Phenom and 3-Way CrossFire Spotted |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Amd |
| writes "AMD revealed the clock speed of the Agena-based processor they showed to the press today yesterday in conference, and clocks in at 3.0GHz. There has been a lot of speculation that AMD wasn't able to push early Phenom samples to frequencies this high, but here is proof that at least some Phenoms clocked at 3.0GHz do exist. You may |
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| ATI graphics to support DisplayPort 1.1 in early 2008 |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 9:35 am |
| Tags: Amd, Displayport, Firegl, R700, R700 Firegl, R700firegl, Shanghai |
| is hotting up with AMD announcing ATI Radeon graphics processors supporting DisplayPort 1.1 in the "early 2008 timeframe." Just in time to support Samsung's new 30-inch panel scheduled to see production in Q2 2008. In fact, AMD just completed successful interoperability testing of their presumably "next-generation graphics processor" |
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| QA glitch allows defective ATI Radeon cards to slip out |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:07 pm |
| Tags: Amd, Ati, Defective, Gpu, Graphics, Graphics Card, Graphicscard, Hd 2400, Hd 2600, Hd2400, Hd2600, Radeon |
| to "sources" at AMD, the firm's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was recently discovered "to have a bug that failed to detect defective ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics cards." The problem was actually discovered by various "channel vendors" who supposedly pointed out an error in the BIOS application |
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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 |
| Advanced Micro (NYSE: AMD) with a Sell rating; Caris started Intel with a $26 target, Texas Instruments with a $41 target, National Semi with a $29 target, and AMD with a $10 target. CDC Corp (NASDAQ: CHINA) was initiated at Piper Jaffray with an Outperform rating and $11.50 target. OTHER INITIATIONS: Banc of America started |
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| Pass Go, Collect $60 Billion: AMD: Intel Made $60 Billion in "Monopoly Profits" |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Amd, Gadgets, Intel, Pass Go Collect 60 Billion, Pcs, Processors |
| AMD has a new presser out declaring that between 1996 and 2006, Intel socked away over $60 billion of "monopoly profits" into its "monopoly coffers." It also claims that if there were "full competition" in the processor market, we would save over $81 billion, which sounds awesome. Now, I'm not an economist, so I can't really judge the conclusions, |
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| AMD: Dead cat bounce |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:40 am |
| Tags: 24 7 Wall Street, 24 7wallstreet, Aapl, Amd, Bsc, Intc |
| (INTC), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Bear Stearns Cos (BSC)Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has taken a terrible drubbing lately. It hit a new 52-week low of $12.58 two days ago. But, that was then and this is now. One of the factors that tanked the shares was the idea that cheap money was gone forever. AMD has a lot of debt and is burning |
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| AMD's "Break Free" website targets Intel's business practices |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:05 pm |
| Tags: Amd, Antitrust, Break Free, Breakfree, European Commission, Europeancommission, Intel, Lawsuit |
| when it comes to Intel and AMD. The latest round of jabs traded between the two chip-makers comes from the beleaguered AMD camp, which has launched an entire website (using the unsubtle name "Break Free") dedicated to smack-talking Intel and its business practices. In particular, the site excitedly covers the recent antitrust charges brought |
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| AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 11:09 pm |
| Tags: Amd |
| writes "AMD has helped sponsor the progress of openSUSE with leading-edge hardware and development expertise. "AMD is helping to ensure that the openSUSE Build Service continues to be an important collaboration and development platform for developers of all distributions," said Terri Hall, AMD vice president of Commercial Systems |
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| A Three-Way AMD Opteron Server |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:47 pm |
| Tags: Amd |
| Abdul tips a thin little review up at The Inquirer of the Themis Slice. "The Slice is a three socket Opteron machine with two PCIe slots and two Infiniband 4x ports... Why would you want three sockets rather than four? Easy, latency. Any CPU in a 3S system is one hop away from any other CPU. In a 4S system, you can be two hops away. This adds |
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| Intel (INTC) Puts Another Nail In AMD's (AMD) Coffin |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 9:19 am |
| Tags: Technology Companies, Amd |
| AMD (AMD) hope to this day that its new Barcelona quad-core chip will get it back in the game of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| AMD (AMD): Is Its New Chip Late? |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 6:14 am |
| Tags: Semiconductor, Amd |
| The Inquirer is reporting that the new AMD (AMD) multi-core Barcelona chip is shipping late. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| AMD Previews New Processor Extensions |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 4:37 pm |
| Tags: Amd |
| all over the news today: AMD announced the first of its Extensions for Software Parallelism, a series of x86 extensions to make parallel programming easier. The first are the so-called 'lightweight profiling extensions.' They would give software access to information about cache misses and retired instructions so data structures can be |
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| Bad Analyst Call Of The Day: AMD (AMD) By Credit Suisse |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 8:26 am |
| Tags: Amd |
| Credit Suisse started AMD (AMD) at 'underperform today, with a price target of $13. Perhaps no one... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| AMD intros Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 12:16 pm |
| Tags: Amd, Athlon, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 X2 6400 Black Edition, Athlon64x2, Athlon64x26400 Blackedition |
| under: Desktops While AMD still has bigger and better things in store, those looking for some more instant gratification may want to consider the company's new Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition, which now occupies the top spot of its X2 line. At 3.2GHz, this one clocks in at 200MHz faster than the previous top-end 6000+ but, according to |
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| Tilera debuts its sixty-four core processor, melts faces |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 2:34 pm |
| Tags: Amd, Chips, Cpu, Dual Core, Dualcore, Intel, Multi Core, Multicore, Quad Core, Quadcore, Tile64, Tilera |
| competition like Intel and AMD, has decided to turn the game up a notch with their latest diabolical creation: the 64-core processor. That's right folks, Tilera's TILE64 is a new RISC CPU aimed at integrated systems like routers, switches, video conferencing, and set-top boxes that can best Intel's finest by a factor of 30, and casually rocks a |
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