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Article | 14/05/2009 Intel CEO 'strongly disagrees' with 'baffling' $1.44B antitrust fine
Intel Corp. said today it intends to appeal the European Commission's $1.44 billion fine for anticompetitive behavior in the chip market, with CEO Pau...
Article | 13/05/2009 Otellini: Sparc uncertainty an opportunity for Itanium
Oracle's decision to acquire Sun Microsystems has created a larger market opportunity for Intel to put its Itanium chips into more enterprise servers,...
Article | 13/05/2009 Intel grants $12M in multicore graphics research
Intel on Tuesday said it was granting US$12 million over five years to Saarland University in Germany to research graphics technologies.
Article | 12/05/2009 AMD gains processor market share on Intel
After five quarters of declining market share, Advanced Micro Devices gained ground in chip shipments over chief rival Intel during the first quarter ...
Article | 11/05/2009 EU antitrust ruling against Intel due next Wednesday
The European Commission is expected to make one of the most significant antitrust decisions in its history on Wednesday when it punishes computer chip...
Article | 8/05/2009 Intel to stop shipping one Core i7 model later this year
Intel plans to stop selling one of its high-end desktop chips this year, less than one year after it was released, the company confirmed Thursday.
Article | 7/05/2009 AMD merges graphics, microprocessor operations
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced it was consolidating the operations of disparate business units in the company.
Article | 7/05/2009 Intel's Atom chip finding its way into servers
Intel's Atom processor is starting to find its way into some types of servers, bringing a new low-power option for end-users but raising a potential b...
Article | 6/05/2009 China's chips to power blade servers this year
Blade servers based on microprocessors designed in China will power a supercomputer prototype to be revealed by a government-backed Chinese firm in Se...
Article | 4/05/2009 Taiwan's big five DRAM makers post massive losses
Taiwan's five largest DRAM makers reported massive losses in a slew of earnings reports filed late Thursday evening, raising questions about how much ...
Article | 1/05/2009 Via may seek greater role for Nano in servers
Via Technologies may try to extend the use of its Nano processors from netbooks to servers in a potential challenge to Intel and Advanced Micro Device...
Article | 1/05/2009 Apple snapping up chip designers
A year after buying low-power processor designer PA Semi, Apple is looking for yet more chip design expertise.
Article | 1/05/2009 Price war: Bargain ATI graphics card serves notice to Nvidia
ATI Technologies Inc.'s new Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor launched earlier this week, receiving plaudits for incorporating cutting-edge technology...
Article | 29/04/2009 Win 7, Snow Leopard could give graphics chip a spark
Graphics chip shipments fell during the first quarter this year, but could stabilize later this year as people look to upgrade PCs with new operating ...
Article | 29/04/2009 Intel releases new low-power motherboards
Intel has launched two new motherboards for small form factor notebooks and desktops.
Article | 29/04/2009 AMD pulls dual-core server processors, cuts prices
Advanced Micro Devices has pulled dual-core server processors from its product lineup, also cutting prices of some Opteron chips by close to 43 percen...
Article | 23/04/2009 With six-core chips, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
The U.S. government is beginning to spend billions of dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. And that may be why Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) s...
Article | 28/04/2009 AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership
AMD announced that XFX is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the group of AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new produ...
Article | 28/04/2009 Texas Memory Systems shows less expensive, faster flash
Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.
Article | 28/04/2009 AMD to Ship Six-Core Chip in June, Plans 16 Cores by 2011
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week said it will release a six-core Opteron processor in June, five months ahead of schedule. And it detailed plans ...

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