As a part of the continuous effort against Opteron, Intel today announced the availability of its last planned single-core Intel Xeon processor.This last model, which concludes the Intel single-core series, offers support of 64-bit technology, works at 3.8Ghz and it has 2 MB L2 cache. In the coming weeks, Intel will ...
AMD has decided to come up with a new name for the upcoming high-end Agena-based CPUs. Thus, the next-generation K10-derived "Stars" family will include single, dual and quad-core processors, which will be commercialized under three different brand names: Phenom (high-end), Athlon 64 (mainstream) and Sempron (entry...
Dave Orton, former president and CEO at the video chip maker ATI, has resigned as executive vice president of AMD just nine months after the two companies combined. AMD completed the merging with ATI in October last year and Dave Orton was given the position of executive vice president of AMD, as part of the merging ...
Sometime during this week Intel's CEO Paul Otellini and AMD CEO Hector Ruiz will be reporting quarterly earnings. From a year ago - when Intel reported a huge drop in profits and a management overhaul - the current situation is much, much better as the second generation of Core processors first halted the losing...
AMD is working hard to make its next generation of both desktop and server aimed processors unbeatable. At least, this is what they say. Personally, I tend to believe them as the new Barcelona based processors will be a "make or brake" for the entire company. In the happiest scenario, the Phenom processors will just ...
Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, announced that Henri Richard, the company's chief sales officer, is going to leave the company soon, at the beginning of September, just before the launch of the much awaited Barcelona quad core processors.According to a press release the company posted on its Web sit...
One week after Intel released the new 45nm processor line, AMD has finally revealed the Spider platform. Although the "box contents" was leaked on the dedicated forums since October, the official release of the Spider platform has just been concluded with the Phenom masterpiece. A few days ago, AMD showed the world t...