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AMD CEO: Consumer CPU capacity could be traded to fuel commercial growthMar 6, 2006 - in News
The company that redefined CPU performance in the high-end desktop space, may lift its foot just a little off the gas in that market, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said today. The reason is to start concentrating more upon the lucrative commercial business market, where quantity sales abound, and margins are a bit higher. Will this move leave an opening for Intel?
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AMD: US$100-laptop project important step into emerging marketsMar 6, 2006 - in News
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Mobo makers voice concerns about southbridge supply after ATI's Crossfire 3200 launchMar 2, 2006 - in News
With ATI set to roll out its PCI Express (PCIe) CrossFire Xpress 3200 (RD580) chipset for high-end AMD solutions, motherboard makers are expressing concern about a potential southbridge supply shortage, as ATI partner Uli Electronics (ULi) was recently acquired by Nvidia.
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Preview: Tom's Hardware takes a first look at AMD's AM2 platformFeb 20, 2006 - in News
2006 is on track to become the most interesting year for the processor industry since the end of the Gigahertz race. With Intel prepping a new architecture and AMD set to defend its lead with its AM2 platform, customers should see a wave of innovation that goes well beyond clock speed. Tom's Hardware got a first impression of the capability of the AM2 platform.
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Socket AM2 birth scheduled for 6th of JuneFeb 14, 2006 - in News
AMD has a fixed date for its socket AM2 launch,The Inquirer reports.
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AMD releases "Pacifica" virtualization specFeb 7, 2006 - in News
AMD today announced that it has released its I/O virtualizations specification, formerly code-named "Pacifica," through royalty-free licenses to hardware and software developers. The company said that virtualization will be supported in all of its processors in the first half of this year.
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AMD's forums hackedJan 30, 2006 - in News
Visitors to AMD's website forums received a shock when their adware and virus scanners started blaring warnings about a possible Trojan horse being downloaded. Over the past few days visitors have been complaining about strange popup alerts and slow forum speeds. Apparently, the forum webpages were modified to include a link to a malicious Windows Metafile (WMF) image hosted on toolbarsdollars.biz. A major WMF vulnerability that allows hackers to hide code inside of image files was disclosed a few weeks ago and many users still have not patched against it.
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Sun counts on AMD's Opteron to grow workstation businessJan 30, 2006 - in News
Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn't expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.
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AMD licenses Z-RAM technologyJan 24, 2006 - in News
Following rumors in the past week, Innovative Silicon (ISi) today announced that AMD has licensed its Z-RAM technology that may enable the processor manufacturer not only to increase on-chip memory sizes for its CPUs but also reduce I/O power consumption. ISi claims to have Z-RAM technology currently running on 90 nm SOI silicon.
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AMD reduces prices of Athlon, Sempron and Turion processorsJan 23, 2006 - in News
AMD today announced price reductions for most of its mainstream and performance desktop processors.
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AMD eyes chip memory expansionJan 20, 2006 - in News
Advanced Micro Devices is exploring new types of onboard memory for its chips as a way to bump performance and squeeze more out of its manufacturing plants.
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MIT's US$100-laptop project to be key for AMD share growth in 2006Jan 20, 2006 - in News
Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) worldwide market share of the CPU market could top 20% in 2006 if the $100-laptop project launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab does well in emerging markets, market sources suggested.
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AMD to support M2 launch with X2 5000+ and FX-62 CPUsJan 12, 2006 - in News
While Intel is busy bringing its next processor generation, based on the Merom core, up to speed, AMD is adding the final touches to its DDR2-based Socket M2 Athlon 64 platform, TG Daily has learned. AMD is preparing 12 M2 processors for Q2 launch, spanning the Athlon 64, X2, FX and Sempron series of CPUs. Part of the launch will be an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and an Athlon 64 FX-62 chip.
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Asustek A8R-MVP motherboard adopts ULi M1575 southbridge solutionJan 10, 2006 - in News
ULi Electronics today announced that Asustek Computer has incorporated the ULi M1575 southbridge solution in their latest A8R-MVP motherboard series.
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Anti-Viiv: AMD fires back a "Live" round, with its own digital home media platformJan 4, 2006 - in News
Aiming squarely for the territory Intel had hoped to claim at this year's CES, AMD has jumped the gun and announced its own digital home media reference platform, AMD LIVE!, one day earlier than anticipated. So AMD has a platform, too, but is it made of sterner stuff than Intel's Viiv?
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AMD says low-end desktop chips in short supplyDec 23, 2005 - in News
Advanced Micro Devices said it expects to solve supply issues with some of its desktop processors by the first quarter.
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Foxconn motherboards to use SiS761GX chipset for AMD solutionDec 9, 2005 - in News
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) announced today that Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) will use the SiS761GX chipset, an integrated AMD64 chipset supporting PCI Express (PCIe) x16 graphics interface, for two of Foxconn's WinFast-branded motherboards for the AMD platform - the 761GXK8 MB-EKRS and 761GXK8MC-ERS.
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ULi launches M1697, reveals product details and shipment targetsDec 9, 2005 - in News
Yesterday, ULi Electronics officially launched its M1697 single-chip solution for the AMD K8 platform. The company started sampling this product in September, and the chip recently entered mass production, ULi associate vice president Bruce Tai said.
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Paper: Dell PC contract makers begin developing AMD solutionsNov 21, 2005 - in News
Dell's major contract makers for PCs - Foxconn Electronics, Asustek Computer, and Quanta Computer - have begun developing PC products supporting the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) platform.
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AMD schedules quad-cores for 2007Nov 16, 2005 - in News
AMD is aiming to roll out a quad-core-capable processor family during 2007 and switch to an all-new processor architecture later this decade.
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Customers would not pay a premium for Intel over AMD - surveyNov 14, 2005 - in News
Market research firm Rackspace found that 65 percent of respondents to a recent customer survey would not pay more for an Intel server versus an AMD server. The company, which provides managed web hosting, says that customers are less concerned about processors because they manage most of the technical details. Rackspace has about 17,000 servers and 2,111 of their customers responded to the survey.
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AMD's Socket M2 to simplify next-generation CPUOct 21, 2005 - in News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to simplify its 90nm CPU platform with its 940-pin Socket M2 CPU design, according to motherboard makers.
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Intel launches first dual-core Xeon processor, challenges AMD's OpteronOct 10, 2005 - in News
"Paxville" is Intel's first shot in the volume server and workstation segment: The new processor, in its core a version of the Pentium D 800 series, will go head-to-head with AMD's dual-core Opteron, so far the only dual-core option for servers and workstations. Intel announced that it will use aggressive pricing to push Paxville into the market.
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Asia-Pacific AMD CPU supply tightensSep 29, 2005 - in News
Following the Intel chipset shortage, recent rumors among motherboard makers indicate that supplies of the Athlon 64 3000+ and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU lines from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are already short of demand in the Asia-Pacific region.
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AMD launches dual-core MP Opterons; Intel responds with low-voltage XeonsSep 26, 2005 - in News
Having won one market victory with the first introduction of multicore processors for multi-processor platforms - and not wanting anyone to forget it too soon - AMD announced this morning the release of its fourth series of three new Opteron series processors, topped by the Dual-core Model 880 and followed up by the Dual-core Model 280, both of which will be available immediately.
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ATI to roll out five new chipsets for AMD M2 platform in 2006Aug 30, 2005 - in News
ATI Technologies is gearing up to introduce a lineup of five new chipsets for the AMD Socket M2 K8 platform in 2006, industry sources indicated.
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In the heat of a "dual-core duel," AMD responds to Intel's ConroeAug 25, 2005 - in News
Now that Intel's next-generation Pentium architecture is confirmed to have fewer look-ahead pipelines instead of more, and will focus on power consumption even at the risk of moderating its performance gains, AMD may have been successful in forcing CPU market leader Intel into a long-term strategic U-turn.
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AMD to introduce dual-core Turion 64 in first half of 2006Aug 25, 2005 - in News
The journalist crowd at IDF is not just a tool for Intel to deliver the latest information to the media.
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AMD, Infineon may partner on flash memoryAug 23, 2005 - in News
The chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, Hector Ruiz, told the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung that AMD and Infineon Technologies could cooperate on making flash memory chips.