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New AMD chips meant for mobile gamers

New AMD chips meant for mobile gamersI'm begging ZDNET!......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE!!!! the video/picture of the hideous troll woman the Philadelphia CIO. It's been on your home page for like a MONTH!! I can't stand seeing her everytime I come to this site!! WHYYYYYYY has her picture...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, mobile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip, AMD Chips

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

Apple/Intel: The morning after

Apple/Intel: The morning afterWhy they didn't they chose AMD?Is apple afraid AMD won't be able to supply enough chips like IBM?AMD is the company that has the chip that is, tick for tick, just or at LEAST almost as fast as the PPC chips.AMD has pretty much solved their...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Apple Inc., AMD Chips

Discussion threads 2005-06-07

Nvidia to work on PlayStation 3 chip

Nvidia to work on PlayStation 3 chipNvida as the market leader? Not on this planet.Yes Nvidia makes some decent hardware, but when it comes to sales ATI is beating them hands down. Nvidia is anything but the "market leader". (The majority of people that do reviews/testing also...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Game players, AMD Chips, Sony Playstation, NVidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., chip, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

Dell has no plans to use AMD chips

Dell has no plans to use AMD chipsFineI have no plan to buy Dell computers either.Everyone has no reason to use AMD chipsAMD's chips are notorious for their instability, overheat, incompatability. I cannot find a reason for anyone to use its chips.I'm sure this has something to do with AMDObviously,...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Intel Chip, consumer confidence, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, Dell Computer Corp., AMD Chips, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-02-18

IBM sells supercomputer using AMD chips

IBM sells supercomputer using AMD chips128-way cluster not exactly a supercomputer128 Opterons will make a respectable Linuxcluster. But, saying that 128 Opterons makea supercomputer is a bit of an imaginativestretch.definitionback in 1990, Cray had a 32x4 "cluster" that was also called a super computer.How do we define as a...

Tags: Processors, supercomputer, AMD Chips, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2004-01-14

AMD chips, Linux line up for Sun blades

AMD chips, Linux line up for Sun bladesOn a not so related note...anyone try the Jave Desktop Environment yet?Non troll opinions please.

Tags: Blade servers, Servers, Utility computing, Sun Blade, AMD Chips, blade, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., chip, Linux

Discussion threads 2003-12-03

Additional Resources

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities

OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...

Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?

Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Intel debuts Core i7 960

Why?LGA1366 is effectively dead.RE: Intel debuts Core i7 960I think I was happier when Intel had competition at the high end and had to price their chips accordingly.Whether or not I use AMD, I need them to compete better to keep Intel's prices down.Why would you say that?Where are you...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., socket, chipset, LGA1366, Bloomfield, LGA1156

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

AMD rolls out 8 new Athlon CPUs in time for Windows 7

Too littleI've bought AMD CPUs in the past, but they lost their edge with Intel's release of Core 2. AMD has yet to recover. I just don't see myself going AMD to save $50. Frankly, $100 won't move me when I consider I will keep a new...

Tags: Processors, CPU, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Intel Core i5, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, Core i5, Intel Corp., AMD Athlon

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

AMD posts another quarterly loss

If AMD can't produce...a CPU that will compare with Intel in performance they may not be around for a lot longer. They are so completely outclassed by Intel i7 that they aren't even in the ball park. It is hard to believe they can't come up with something ant closer.I...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, quarterly loss, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

AMD posts third quarter loss, but moving in right direction

AMD reported a smaller-than-expected loss and said it saw growth in unit shipments for its microprocessors and graphics chips. The company, which had a tough act to follow given Intel's blowout third quarter, reported a net loss of $128 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Processors, Financial Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-15

End of the line for NVIDIA chipsets, and that's official

Just like IntelNow this is an opinion based off Intel's way of operating business but what changed to take away NVidia's X86 Compatible Chipset licenses with the new processors? I guess there has been lots of history that shows Intel likes to bully it's competitors to make sure...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., chipset, processor

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Selkie Quick File Transfer 3.6 (Windows)

Need to move files fast? Want to back files up to a second computer? Selkie Quick File Transfer (SQFT, rhymes with 'swift') is fast, easy file transfer between computers. Use this powerful program when you are upgrading to a new computer, or when you want to quickly move documents, photos,...

Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Tugboat, Selkie Quick File Transfer, Selkie, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Is NVIDIA dead?

RE: Is NVIDIA dead?Give me a break!Don't forget IntelThere have been rumors for some time that Intel was going to enter the discrete graphics card market, with cards designed to work with their processors and MB chipsets. Perhaps nVidia felt like the market is getting squeezed too much to...

Tags: Games, Video cards, NVidia Corp., game, graphics, Intel Corp., mid range

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

MSI X340 might be the best laptop you've never heard of

Glossy LCD? No thanksA Lenovo X300 from the Lenovo Outlet for about $1100 seems to be the best deal to me. For an extra $400 beyond the MSI you get a fast SSD, higher resolution non-glossy display though the viewing angle and contrast is rather disappointing, a second processing core,...

Tags: Notebooks, MSI web site, MSI, laptop computer, MSI X340

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Intel: 32nm is just the beginning

Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...

Tags: Graphics, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Westmere, Sandy Bridge, Process Technology, Larrabee, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-23

News to know: Intel's IDF; Google; Microsoft; Yahoo

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Critical iTunes flaw exposes Mac, Windows to hacker attacks Sam Diaz: Otellini at...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Data Centers, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-23