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  • AMD chips away at business

    AMD, the perennial number two in PC processors, will at last offer a realistic alternative to Intel's Pentium and forthcoming 64bit Itanium chips in business PCs this year.

  • AMD chips fuel new supercomputer

    The University of Delaware's new machine, dubbed 'Samson', is expected to rank within the top 200 of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Guess who's making the chips?

  • Dell, AMD expected to expand chip pact

    Dell is expected to announce on Thursday in the US that it's expanding its partnership with the chipmaker to include new AMD-based servers, desktops and laptops.

  • AMD's new chip speeds past Intel

    Advanced Micro Devices has again upped the stakes in its processor performance race with rival Intel.

  • AMD prepares chip onslaught on Intel

    Processor underdog announces next-generation chip plans

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    Whenever the industry's top execs come together to speak to the masses, expectations are high. This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference provided an insight into which vendors have intriguing grand plans, and which ones prefer to rely on marketing bluff.

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  • One-chip computer at heart of AMD-ATI deal

    Advanced Micro Devices is laying out billions of dollars to acquire ATI and get into the often-painful world of graphics chips.

  • CPU roadmap: server processors

    In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.

  • Lighting the murky depths of multicore pricing

    Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

  • Can CEO-in-waiting give AMD a jumpstart?

    Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.

  • Intel late to the 64-bit x86 party?

    video Does AMD has an advantage over Intel in the 64-bit x86 chip category because AMD was first to market?

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Reviews (196)

  • AMD talks up Opteron chip

    Advanced Micro Devices is looking to drum up support for its forthcoming 64-bit Opteron server chip.

  • IBM to help AMD on future chips

    Big Blue will team with Advanced Micro Devices to develop future chip technologies, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.

  • Sun likely to use AMD's Opteron chip

    Sun Microsystems will likely adopt the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices as it extends into new branches of the server market.

  • AMD expands Opteron chip line

    Advanced Micro Devices launches 64-bit chips for servers with both single and multiple processors. It's also looking to fend off Itanium advances from rival Intel.

  • AMD 850MHz Duron chip

    AMD has introduced the 850MHz Duron Chip, with manufacturers, such as Compaq and Hewlett Packard, already offering systems based on the processor.

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