Without any challenge to present at the Core i7 performance level, AMD is trying to pressure Intel in the value segment before their Core i5 CPUs make it to market. The new Phenom II X4... More...

Back in June I attended an "AMD Tech Day" where we saw the newest technolgy ranging from Puma, to Shrike to this little gem called Fusion For Gaming. Fusion For Gaming is designed for... More...

The combination of AMD's ATI graphics division and AMD's CPU division means that AMD often fights a two-front war, directly competing against Intel in the CPU business as well as Nvidia in graphics. AMD's Hybrid... More...

Advanced Micro Devices gave further details of its upcoming Fusion processor, saying it will be based on the design of a microprocessor used in the desktops currently shipping to enthusiast PC users such as gamers.... More...

After a bruising month where it had to admit a series of missteps with its quad-core microprocessor strategy, Advanced Micro Devices got a boost Jan. 3 from Hewlett-Packard. On Thursday, HP announced that it would... More...

In an exclusive interview with ChannelWeb, AMD Executive Vice President of the Computing Products Group Mario Rivas discusses how the planned ramp-up of the company's Operton and Phenom quad-cores failed and what AMD is doing... More...

After months of anticipation, AMD is launching its Phenom desktop processor and "Spider" platform for desktop PCs. Its new Phenom chips feature a native quad-core design, a 65-nanometer manfufacturing process, and enhanced power management technology.... More...

According to market tracking firm Mercury Research, Advanced Micro Devices managed to boost its market share a bit in the third quarter of the year, not at Intel's loss but because the remaining suppliers of... More...

ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology was announced in mid-2005, but has not really gained widespread popularity since then, partly because ATI's flagship graphics products faced delays and partly because Nvidia put tremendous efforts into popularization of... More...

The good news is Advanced Micro Devices has a hot product on its hands with the recently released Opteron quad-core processors. The less encouraging news is that some system builder partners say they've had trouble... More...

Advanced Micro Devices gained 2.5 percentage points of the worldwide microprocessor market last quarter, iSuppli Corp said Tuesday, a much greater gain than the research group had estimated. Intel, AMD's bigger rival, lost 2 percentage... More...

Henri Richard, the former chief marketing and sales officer with Advanced Micro Devices, is joining Freescale Semiconductor to lead the chip maker's sales and marketing divisions. Richard, who will hold the title of senior vice... More...

According to CNET's News.com, processor-manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices will announce the imminent departure of Henri Richard, the company's chief sales officer, later this afternoon. Richard's loss is a very significant development in what has been... More...

AMD is trying to breath new life into its dual-core Opteron by upping the chip to 3.2GHz just weeks before Barcelona rolls on store shelves. AMD announced today the pricing and availability to its Opteron... More...

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest manufacturer of x86 central processing units (CPUs) will delay the roll-out of its new enthusiast-class platform to next year, according to sources familiar with the plans of AMD.... More...

Although AMD publicly planned a 2H 2007 introduction back in May, news of a November release of the company's quad-core Phenom desktop processor line has recently come out of Taipei. Phenom is now the official... More...

According to the latest numbers from Mercury Research, Intel managed to capture 80.5% of the PC processor market for Q1 2007, from the 74.4% the company held during Q4 2006. The increases per segment come... More...

Details of AMD's next-generation South Bridge chip, the SB700, have leaked out. With them, the chip maker's plans for its latest notebook reference platform, codenamed 'Trevally' - designed, it seems, to take Intel's 'Santa Rosa'... More...

When Intel launched its Core 2 line of processors we saw AMD's performance and power advantages vanish into thin air but the comparison, at least on the power side, wasn't totally fair. Intel had been... More...

AMD'S AM2 socket will "evolve" to AM2+ in Q3 2007. The AM2+ will include support for the latest greatest Hypertransport 3, scoring with 4.0 to 4.4 GT/s where the exact speed depends on the north... More...

AMD has released details of its next-generation desktop CPU interface, Socket AM3, to its OEM partners. In a mildly surprising move, AMD has revealed that AM2 will accept AM2 or AM3 CPU packages. ... More...

Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive said that his company was planning to commercially release processors with new micro-architecture in 2008 after making pilot production in 2007. The introduction of the new micro-architecture may significantly boost... More...

As part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday served Skype with a subpoena demanding documents related to its deal to make one feature in Skype 2.0 available exclusively to... More...

The Tech Report have posted an interesting 3 page article that examines the antitrust complaint filed by AMD against Intel. In a world governed by marketeer dominance, it will be interesting to see... More...

Advanced Micro Devices' CEO Hector Ruiz said during the most recent financial quarter conference call that the transition of the company's Fab 30 to 90nm SOI process technology manufacturing had been completed. ... More...

An antitrust complaint with something favorable to say about Microsoft? Is it possible? Apparently so. The antitrust suit filed last week against microprocessor giant Intel by its smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices, singles... More...

As expected, Intel introduced three models of the Pentium D on Thursday: the 2.8-GHz Pentium D 820, the 3.0-GHz Pentium D 830, and the 3.2-GHz Pentium D 840. The three chips are priced at $241,... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is spinning off its flash unit, but the company's timing could have been better, analysts said. Spansion, a flash memory joint venture between AMD and Fujitsu that is... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon, CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at... More...

In contrast to Intel Corp.'s 90nm chips, AMD's microprocessors made using 90nm process technology consume less power than their 130nm counterparts, according to recently revealed data from Advanced Micro Devices. While the current products use... More...

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest maker of microprocessors for personal computers, announced its Athlon 64 chip had been adopted by HP for a personal computer fuelled by Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition... More...

An AMD representative denied any substantial architectural tweaks of AMD Athlon 64 processors manufactured 90nm fabrication technology on Monday, rejecting the rumors about higher performance of AMD64 parts produced using more advanced process technology compared... More...

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday detailed performance results for its forthcoming dual-core Opteron processor, showing a speed boost of 30 percent to 55 percent, compared with today's single-core models. In addition, AMD... More...

AMD ROADMAPS seen by the INQUIRER at the now famous Porcupine pub show that AMD will release its desktop Toledo dual core 939 pin chip at 90 nanometres and using SOI in the second half... More...

AnandTech has the latest information about AMD's Sempron processor. Sempron won't have 64-bit capabilities as previously thought. Sempron has 256k of L2 cache, and Sempron runs at 62W. As it... More...

As the chief technology officer for Advanced Micro Devices, Fred Weber has been responsible for the design of the processors millions of PC enthusiasts favor, including the Athlon XP. More recently, Weber... More...

While Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corporation do not have a lot in common when it comes to central processing units' micro-architecture these days, both firms engage some very close approaches to enhance their x86... More...

While Intel Corporation ran into very serious heat dissipation issues with its NetBurst architecture CPUs and 90nm strained silicon technology, looks like its arch rival AMD will also have some hot chips in future. Sources... More...

Advanced Micro Devices spokesperson confirmed today that the company's central processing units due next year in 754-pin and 940-pin packaging will be backward compatible with existing mainboards featuring appropriate CPU sockets. In an attempt to... More...

dvanced Micro Devices got a vote of support from Sun Microsystems and added three new models to its stable of 64-bit Opteron processors for servers. The chipmaker, which announced a partnership with Sun... More...

The chipmaker will unveil its Athlon 64 processor on Tuesday. Along with added performance, the chip offers PC buyers the option of upgrading to 64-bit software--a feature Intel's Pentium doesn't offer. Such software, which offers... More...

WE WERE very close to Athlon 64 and Athlon FX last week but didn't get time to play with the systems. Still the world is too small a place to hide the numbers until the... More...

IT APPEARS as if the mongrel chip AMD codenames Thorton is not that far away from release. Details of the chip, which is a hybrid Thoroughbred- Barton, and which AMD has persistently told the INQ... More...

A READER who tuned into the Webcast AMD and Microsoft held yesterday evening tells us that the Athlon 64 will be launched in September, and not in August as Digitimes suggested yesterday. Of course, if... More...

Sun Microsystems will likely adopt the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices as it extends into new branches of the server market. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Sun has been testing the forthcoming Opteron chip for servers... More...

Although not quite as exciting as THG's previous look at AMD chips, it does prove to give a good look at all the cooling solutions for Athlon XPs. Its even got physics formulas... ... More...

WE REPORTED back in October that AMD had "sold out" of the limited production run of Thoroughbred XP2800+ processors. And they still seem to be rarer than flying pigs or hen's with teeth, suggesting that... More...

WHEN CPUS start appearing using 90 nanometer technology, it gives the chip companies a lot more transistors to play with. So we presume that is why AMD, in a white paper on its web site... More...

SOURCES CLOSE TO AMD said that the firm will likely soon release multiprocessing "MP" processors that support the faster 333MHz front side buses that the Athlon XP supports. Those faster MP chips could be introduced... More...

A REPORT ON Digitimes quotes INQ t-shirt wearer Richard Heye as saying yes, the processor will hit the streets in Q1 of next year. That's because it still appears to be tweaking the verification of... More...