A sluggish fourth quarter for graphics chip shipments found AMD and Nvidia taking market share from Intel. – Estimates from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) regarding graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for the fourth quarter 2010 suggest overall shipments of graphics devices for the year 2010 came in below expectations with an “unimpressive” 4.3 percent total year to year growth–a disappointing …
While AMD may be giving more attention to the tablet space, the company will continue to focus on current plans, particularly with its Fusion initiative, according to interim CEO Thomas Siefert. – A week after Dirk Meyer’s resignation as CEO
of Advanced Micro Devices, the company’s position going forward is essentially
to stay the course in the short term, while creating expansion plans farther
down the road.
Executives
at AMD, speaking during a conference call
with analysts and journal…
AMD is rolling out its G-Series APUs aimed at the highly competitive embedded market. The new APUs, which offer CPU and graphics on the same die, are similar to ones launched at CES for notebooks. – Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wrapping off its first Fusion accelerate processing units for the embedded market.
AMD launched the G-Series Jan. 19, just weeks
after unveiling its first Fusion processors for consumer PCs at the
2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Like those processors, the G-Se…
Dirk Meyer, who took over as AMD’s CEO in 2008 and helped stabilize the company, resigns as the board of directors looks for faster growth. – More than two years after taking over a struggling Advanced Micro Devices
and returning it to stability, Dirk Meyer has been forced out as CEO
of the world’s second largest chip maker by a board of directors apparently
looking for faster growth.
Meyer’s
resignation Jan. 10 surprised many indust…
Among Acers newest notebooks are its highest-performing Aspire ever, with an Intel Core i7 processor and a 20 percent performance gain. – Acer, the worlds second-largest PC maker, introduced four
mobile PCs at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), covering a
range of consumer tastes. At the highest end is the Aspire AS8950G-9839
which may better stick in the memory as the highest performing
model in Acers flagship Aspire n…
At CES, AMD is unveiling the first of its Fusion APUs, which offer computing and graphics technology on a single die. Intel also is rolling out its similar “Sandy Bridge” chips at the show. – A
day after rival Intel
unveiled its line of quot;Sandy Bridge quot;
second-generation Core-i Series processors, officials with Advanced Micro
Devices rolled out the first of their Fusion chips.
AMD
used the day before the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 opens its doors Jan. 5
in Las Vegas …
With well-matched competing products and not much happening in user markets, Intel and AMD see little change in market share, according to iSuppli. – Intel and Advanced Micro Devices rivalry in the
processor business is at a standstill, at least for now,
according to market research firm iSuppli.
In a report released Dec. 15, iSuppli analysts
said that in the third quarter, each vendor saw incremental changes in
market share. Intel, which …
The processors offer the company’s Turbo Core, a performance boosting technology that shifts frequency speeds. – Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced two quot;Black Edition quot; processors including the companys flagship six-core desktop processor. These processors join AMD’s 8-series chipset and recently launched AMD Radeon HD 6000 series graphics for PCs that deliver enhanced high-definition ex…
An AMD executive said the company’s upcoming "Bobcat" processor design, currently aimed at mobile devices and ultra-thin laptops, doesn’t have features for servers, but that those could come in the future. – Enterprises that want more energy-efficient processor platforms for their
cloud-computing environments shouldn’t look to Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming
quot;Bobcat quot; architecture. At least not yet.
In
a Nov. 29
blog post, John Fruehe, director of product marketing for server, embedded
a…
Intel and AMD will offer new x86-based processor platforms for the embedded market in the first quarter or 2011. Intel plans configurable Atom chips; AMD will release embedded Fusion APUs. – Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are planning new processor offerings aimed at giving their x86-based products greater traction in the growing embedded devices market.
Intels new portfolio of Atom processors, the E600C series, and AMDs upcoming G-Series of APU (Accelerated Processing Units) both wi…
AMD joined MeeGo, the open-source Linux project led by Intel and Nokia to be an active contributor to the mobile operating system. – Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source
project, to contribute quot;engineering expertise quot; to the next-generation mobile
operating system, the company said on Nov. 15.
Run by the Linux Foundation, MeeGo is a mobile operating
system for next-generation mobile platforms and e…
AMD plans to follow Intel in its efforts to move the x86 architecture into the tablet space dominated by ARM chips. Meanwhile, Marvell shows off an ARM chip for the data center. – New and proposed chips from Advanced Micro Devices and
Marvell illustrate the collision course the x86 architecture and ARM-designed
processors are on.
AMD officials, during the
companys annual analyst day Nov. 9, unveiled a roadmap
showing off a host of processors they have planned for the nex…
The Acer Travelmate 5542, an “outstanding value” for professionals, pairs Windows 7 Professional with AMD dual-core processors and a 15.6-inch display for $549. – Acer has introduced the TravelMate 5542, a new business laptop for the U.S. market.
With a 15.6-inch widescreen LED back-lit display, Microsofts Windows 7 Professional operating system and a choice of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) processors, pricing for the TravelMate starts at $549.
For “budget…
Analysts appear cautiously optimistic about AMD after the company demos its Bulldozer CPU and Fusion APU technologies. – Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its CPU and GPU computing
technologies on a single die and processor design, with planned OEM system
availability in early 2011. The company’s Fusion Accelerated Processing Units,
currently shipping to OEMs and coming to market in 2011, are built…
AMD is rolling out the first two Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards aimed at the gamer community. The GPUs offer 30 percent better gaming performance than other products, AMD says. – Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out the first two graphics cards from its new Radeon HD 6000 series aimed at gamers.
The Radeon HD 6870 and 6850, released Oct. 22, offer
30 percent better game performance as well as better energy efficiency
than competing products, according to AMD officials. I…
AMD showed off its upcoming “Llano” APU, which offers integrated compute and graphics capabilities onto the same piece of silicon. Llano will ap-pear in systems in 2011. – Advanced Micro Devices officials gave the industry a glimpse of their upcoming “Llano” processor, part of the companys Fusion initiative that integrates computing and graphics capabilities onto a single piece of silicon.
AMD on Oct. 19 gave a demonstration of what the APU (Accelerated Processing Un…
While announcing third-quarter earnings, CEO Dirk Meyer said AMD will innovate for tablets when the market matures. – Intel may be moving aggressively into the tablet PC
market, but rival Advanced Micro Devices will take a slower approach,
according to its CEO.
However, when AMD does make its move within the next
few years, it will come with processors packing high performance, low
power consumption, and great…
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison reiterated his interest in buying a chip maker, but AMD CEO Dirk Meyer said his company is not for sale, though he would listen to offers. – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he is still interested in acquiring
more companies semiconductor makers and software vendors remain high on
his wish list but that doesnt mean Advanced Micro Devices is up for
sale.
Maybe.
During Oracles annual stockholders meeting Oct. 6, Ellison reiterated his in…
AMD is rolling out several new desktop processors, including a six-core Phenom II chip priced significantly lower than the lowest-cost Intel Core processor. – Advanced Micro Devices officials have always seen price as a key
differentiator in the company’s competition with much larger rival Intel.
That mindset can be seen in the latest desktop PC processors
unveiled by AMD Sept. 21, one of which is the
six-core Phenom II X6 1075 processor. The processo…
Intel and AMD static market share numbers in the second quarter showed the fierceness of the competition between the two rivals, iSuppli said. – Intel and Advanced Micro Devices held their respective market
shares of the dynamic and rapidly growing worldwide processor market in the
second quarter, according to market research firm iSuppli.
Intel accounted for 80.4 percent of the global processor revenue,
down from the 80.7 percent it hel…
