In a culimation of talks that began in spring '08, Intel has just agreed to pay $1.25 billion (cash, due in 30 days) to its biggest rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and agreed to a set of "business practice ...READ»
AMD recently announced that it would cease to market its chips based on technical specs like speed ratings and cache, effectively withdrawing it from the arms race that has been dominated by Intel since time immemorial. AMD will opt ...READ»
Theoretically, Apple's Mac OS X can be installed on nearly any machine running an Intel processor, and even AMD-based machines--including netbooks, laptops and desktops. But the process of installing OS X on these devices gets ...READ»
“Customers… are making purchase decisions based upon companies' behaviors. When companies do find the things that are important to their customers and go above and beyond with regard to the corporate responsibility that the ...READ»
Imagine the scene. 200 game-makers, along with academics, funders, and journalists convening for two days to explore how to create and use digital entertainment – video games - to address the most critical issues of our day, from ...READ»
The European Union's taking a strict line on anti-competitive behavior by two giants of the computing industry: Intel and Microsoft. This week, Microsoft is wriggling to try and fend off an E.U. ruling against it, while the chip maker ...READ»
When a big technology company begins gathering a specialist group of experts together, in some cases poaching them from key posts in other successful outfits, it's a strategic maneuver. In this case, it's the famously secretive ...READ»
Just a few weeks ago, Intel announced it would lay off thousands of employees due to the recession, but the company has just revealed another more positive tactic that it will use to beat the financial downturn: Innovation.
In ...READ»
Intel [INTC] may be the semiconductor industry titan, but new chips released today by AMD [AMD] suggest the company can compete with Intel technologically. AMD's stock is hovering around $2 a share. Are shares of AMD undervalued? ...READ»
Microsoft's 5,000 laid-off employees are being joined by thousands more, this time from Texas Instruments, Sprint Nextel, Philips, Intel and tech giant IBM. The fact that Big Blue itself is shedding jobs is an indicator of just how ...READ»
Intel is making a bold move to try to inject some life into its CPU processor revenue stream: It's slashing prices of its chips, in some cases by 40%. It's a reaction to the lower consumer gadget spending that's been caused by the ...READ»
So AMD's nose-to-nose battle with Intel in every corner of the CPU marketspace really isn't going to happen for netbook CPUs. News about AMD's low-power Neo CPU has arrived and it's not a direct rival to Intel's suite of Atom ...READ»
AMD [AMD] has been struggling to hang with Intel [INTC] for a while now, but a string of buggy chips and unimpressive offerings have made the company nearly moot in the last few years. Now AMD has announced that it will be splitting ...READ»
AMD [AMD] has been having a mediocre year. Okay, an awful year. First, their quad-core chip, the Barcelona, couldn't find a market because of its reputation as buggy. Then the company announced a second quarter loss of over $1.2 ...READ»
While it's tempting to make a chip-related pun, I'll just go ahead and say that Intel [NASDAQ:INTC] announced a group of new processors this holiday week that should compete well with AMD's [NYSE:AMD] recently-revealed Phenom chips. ...READ»
It may be true that processors are not the most exciting doohickeys in the consumer electronics world, but when AMD [NYSE:AMD] does anything, it's time to pay a little attention. That's because the processor world is home to one of ...READ»
Intel [NASDAQ:INTC] has been keeping the specs for its new USB 3.0 controllers close to the vest, causing a whole consortium of companies like AMD [NYSE:AMD] and NVIDIA [NASDAQ:NVDA] to cry foul. Those companies have created a ...READ»
Laptop enthusiasts are finally getting that holy grail of processing power that only their desktop-tethered counterparts had hiterto enjoyed: quad-core processors from Intel [NASDAQ:INTC]. Intel is citing the power-managment ...READ»
In something akin to a corporate cat-fight, AMD [NYSE: AMD] and NVIDIA [NASDAQ: NVDA] have decided that Intel has not been adequately forthcoming with its specifications for the next iteration of the USB interface, USB 3.0. The ...READ»
Today AMD made official its line of "Puma" notebook processors, which are AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics baked in. That's a mouthful, sure, but it translates into a ...READ»
