BY Gina Imperato Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:42 PM
"Please fasten your seat belts and return your pocket protectors and laptops to their full, upright, and locked position. The Nerd Bird is ready for takeoff."READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jun 28, 2005 at 12:14 PM
It was bound to happen: AMD is suing Intel. This is an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Intel coerced PC-makers like Dell and Gateway, and national retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City, to boycott AMD processors. After Microsoft ...READ»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jun 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM
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»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 7:55 PM
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»
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»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Aug 18, 2006 at 5:01 PM
With all that is going on with Dell it is surprising the company would announce a plan to offer PCs with AMD processors. With earnings down from a year ago and uncertainty about an SEC probe into the company’s accounting processes, ...READ»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Oct 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM
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»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jan 6, 2009 at 6:58 AM
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»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM
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»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Feb 9, 2009 at 11:21 AM
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»
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»
BYAlice Korngold Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM
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»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 94 Tue Jun 9, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Yesterday I wrote about the smartbook--a half smartphone, half netbook device that's being pushed as the future of mobile computing. And now it looks like a Chinese firm has beaten everyone, and released a cellphone that runs ...READ»
According to an article from the Associated Press this week, consumers tend to buy environmentally-friendly technology products only when it saves them money. While purchasing green products is the latest craze, it hasn't translated ...READ»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 76 Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 9:44 PM
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»
BYBill Breen Relevancy Score: 75 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:19 AM
Atiq Raza was in position to become CEO of one of Silicon Valley's old-guard giants. But he left to create Raza Foundries, a company that helps build other companies. Just don't call it an incubator.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»
BYAlice Korngold Relevancy Score: 66 Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 10:06 PM
“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»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 63 Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 6:02 AM
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»
