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Apple’s Choice for Discrete Graphics Helps AMD Reclaim Leadership

AMD has reclaimed its position as leader in the discrete graphics market, due in part to the recently announced refresh of Apple’s iMac and Mac Pro lines. The company also announced that a number of technology partners are planning to release an inexpensive Single Link DisplayPort-to-DVI adapter.Particularly, t...

31 August 2010
10:36 GMT

AMD Proud of Apple’s Choice to Include ATI Radeon Solutions in New iMacs, Mac Pros

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced that Apple has selected its graphics solutions for the new line of iMac and Mac Pro desktop computers introduced last month. Powered by an ATI Radeon card for “outstanding power and performance,” Apple’s new-configuration iMacs are already available for ...

6 August 2010
10:23 GMT

AMD Gets Back on Its Feet with Its $1.25-Billion Prize

Advanced Micro Devices finally has the means to stabilize its foothold in the IT industry by reducing its debts and making certain investments meant to improve its overall budget. It seems that the CPU maker is in quite a rush to settle its most dire financial difficulties, seeing how it won't be wasting any tim...

20 November 2009
05:27 GMT

Exclusive: AMD to Soon Release 40nm Desktop Graphics Cards

The graphics card market has seen some important changes recently, with Advanced Micro Devices releasing its first boards under the 40-nanometer process technology. Starting with last year, the competition in this market segment has become tighter, with both AMD and its competitor Nvidia trying to provide users with ...

7 April 2009
03:31 GMT

Qualcomm Acquires AMD's Handheld Business

Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm Incorporated have announced recently that Qualcomm has purchased graphics and multimedia technology assets from AMD, as well as intellectual property and resources that constituted the basis of AMD’s handheld business. Through this acquisition, Qualcomm leverages its multimed...

21 January 2009
12:39 GMT

AMD's Foundry Company Sees Investment Opportunities

Advanced Micro Devices’ manufacturing arm, which is also known as the Foundry Company, a foundry service provider, looks rather optimistic at the current economic downturn, considering it a good anti-cyclical investment opportunity. At the same time, the company reckons the challenges that are approaching, stat...

28 November 2008
05:47 GMT

Some 32nm ATI GPUs Made by The Foundry Company

Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive officer announced that the firm had plans to use the manufacturing capacities of The Foundry Company to produce some of ATI’s graphics processing units (GPUs). The Foundry Company is a joint venture founded by AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company for chip m...

20 October 2008
04:35 GMT

AMD Co-Founder Ed Turney Dies at Age of 79

Edwin James Turney, one of the eight founders of chip giant Advanced Micro Devices, has passed away. Born in Brooklyn, New York on March 26, 1929, Ed died on October, 15, 2008 due to brain cancer, according to his brother George. A funeral mass is expected to be held at 10 a.m on October 18 in the Small Chapel at St....

17 October 2008
10:20 GMT

AMD Reports Surprisingly Good Q3 Revenue

Advanced Micro Devices reported better than expected third quarter earnings, which came as a surprise for most industry analysts. It seems that the company registered a much smaller loss than originally predicted for the quarter. The Sunnyvale chip manufacturer announced third-quarter 2008 revenue of $1.776 billion, ...

17 October 2008
02:37 GMT

AMD Announces Spinning Off Manufacturing Facilities

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to announce on Tuesday its plans for dividing into two separate companies, one that will design microprocessors and one focused on manufacturing chips. The Sunnyvale company has been rumored in the recent few months to be on the verge of spinning off its fabs in an effort to overcom...

7 October 2008
03:12 GMT

AMD to Adopt DDR3 Technology

It seems that Advanced Micro Devices remains consequent to its habits of letting Intel enjoy all the fun of developing new technologies, only to adopt them after some time, when the company considers said technologies to be affordable enough on the market. AMD acted this way when the industry went from DDR to DDR2 an...

28 June 2008
04:11 GMT

AMD Doesn't Go for the "Huge, Monolithic" Chips Like Nvidia

While an executive from Advanced Micro Device states that the company's ATI graphics unit is not on the "huge" chips building, as Nvidia, the rival responds that smaller may prove not to be better or more efficient. The war on the graphics cards market continues with new rounds, this time on the statements level...

27 May 2008
09:59 GMT

AMD Plans to Re-organize to Become Profitable

Advanced Micro Devices held all the details regarding its "asset-smart" strategy to itself and did not present any of its concrete decisions regarding the future of the company at the annual meeting with its shareholders. The only thing that the company unveiled is that it plans to focus only on core businesses and t...

10 May 2008
06:50 GMT

AMD May Start Construction of Its NY Fab This Summer

Advanced Micro Devices officials were reported to have paid a visit to the Malta Town Hall yesterday, in order to present the town officials with an updated version of its plans regarding another semiconductor manufacturing unit in the Luther Forest Technology Campus.The update plans reveal that the company will buil...

26 February 2008
08:22 GMT


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