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  • Asia hungry for multicore processors

    Virtualisation and flexibility are two of the key factors driving demand for multicore chips in the Asia Pacific region.

  • Design delays Barcelona for 6 months: AMD CEO

    AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the quad-core server processor's "complicated" design, according to CEO Hector Ruiz.

  • Nanotechnology makes small the new big

    The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.

  • Intel R&D on slow boat to China

    Intel may be plunging ahead with manufacturing plans in China, but its research-and-development arm isn't moving at quite the same pace.

  • Sun plans broader reach for UltraSparc chip

    With the expected launch of its new UltraSparc T2 chip Sun will once again sell microprocessors, but this time round it has plans to expand beyond the server market.

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  • Intel: Friend or foe?

    Although AMD has painted Intel as a bully, execs who've dealt with company draw a more ambiguous picture.

  • Itanium: A cautionary tale

    The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.

  • Intel's Mr. Chips takes final bow

    Before leaving his post as CEO, Intel's Craig Barrett wants to make a few things perfectly clear.

  • Intel CEO wants an employee attitude check

    Although Intel has done well financially so far this year, the chipmaker's chief executive, Craig Barrett, still isn't satisfied with its track record, following numerous product delays that have affected its plans for this year. And he's ordering some changes.

  • 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.

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Reviews (19)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • First beta of Banias chip ready

    Intel has produced its first prototypes of the upcoming "Banias" processor, the company's first chip purely designed for use in mobile PCs.

  • 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.

  • More life in Moore's Law, creator says

    Moore's Law will slow down a bit but continue to chug along, said Gordon Moore, the law's namesake and an Intel co-founder.

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