Tag Archives : Advanced Micro Devices

One of the biggest names in the social networking realm, Facebook, has now announced its intensions of actively participating in the computer hardware industry. After conquering the online realm with more than 600 million users on the social network, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg at a press event at the FB headquarters announced an all new project [...]

AMD is betting that its new graphics chips offer the company a chance to recover ground lost to industry leader Intel. Although details on performance and cost of new chips have not been disclosed, some analysts say AMD’s strategy to highlight the graphics processors provides benefit to the company, while Intel is preparing to launch its new [...]

Intel agreed to stop adopting anticompetitive practices against rivals, settling old accusations of abuse of market dominance, the agency said U.S. trade, Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. The company, which produces 80 percent of all microprocessors in the world, has also agreed to give manufacturers of complementary products, such as graphics [...]

Apple‘s partnership with Intel is already a year since the company withdrew from Steve Jobs to use the PowerPC and adopted those provided by Intel. “A huge and difficult transplant,” said company CEO at MacWorld 2007, one year after the implementation began to be made (and became a success in the technology industry). Now maybe the [...]

One of the most popular chips maker, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) is currently suffering from a shortage of its newly developed 40-nanometer graphics processing units. This delay in the production of AMD chips is taking its tolls on the computer vendors who are forced to delay shipments and deliveries. The AMD 5800 series, 40-nm GPUs (graphics processing [...]

While companies like AMD and Intel are trying to compress 3, 4 or even 6 cores in their processors, the chip maker American Tilera announced today that it plans to manufacture and sell a model with 100 cores called Tile-Gx. The main purpose of these processors, said Anant Agarwal, co-founder and CTO of the company, will be for use in servers that perform [...]