The first AMD game PC has been tried and tested according to an Israeli news site, which says it will definitely give the competition a run for their money. Ynet claims that Tech Data, an Israeli computer distributor, gave it a prototype of a new AMD Game! machine to play around with before anyone else [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices‘ ATI graphics chip unit doesn’t want to build “huge” chips like rival Nvidia, an executive says. But an Nvidia exec says smaller isn’t always better or more efficient. One of the largest graphics chips yet will be Nvidia’s upcoming high-end GTX 280. This is the kind of chip that high-end gaming enthusiasts [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices filed more legal papers this week alleging monopolistic practices by Intel. Some of AMD’s allegations involving PC makers are the most intriguing. Moreover, the harshness of the language approaches that of the attacks from Nvidia’s CEO in previous weeks. In June 2005 AMD filed an antitrust complaint against Intel claiming that Intel [...]

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Taking another step towards perhaps becoming a fabless chip firm, AMD will apparently be outsourcing its CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), by the second part of 2008. The move was not discussed in AMD’s last investor conference, but Digitimes reports that industry sources claim that testing is already well underway down at [...]

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AMD showed Mario Rivas, EVP and head of computing solutions, and Michel Cadieux, chief talent officer, the door, as the company tries anything to regroup after getting soundly trashed by Intel. AMD created a new central engineering organization, and promoted Randy Allen, the former head of the server business to take Rivas’ place. Last month, [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices needs to more than double its share of the chip market to survive, according to a brief filed by the company’s lawyers in its antitrust lawsuit against Intel. At the end of 2007, AMD had 13 percent of the processor market, “less than half of the figure it required to operate long-term as [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) earlier this week unveiled its first computer brand, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, with design and sales help from its major chip customers such as Dell. AMD Business Class desktop personal computers will be followed by notebook PCs in the second half of this year. AMD customers who plan to [...]

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In something close to firing a torpedo at AMD’s already sinking ship, Intel announced yesterday that it would be cutting prices on several of its processors by up to 50 per cent. Chipzilla released a new price list yesterday, which shows that many of the firm’s going-out-of-fashion processors built on 65nm technology are selling at [...]

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AMD announced earlier this week that five Dell servers based on their Quad-Core Opteron processors are available on the computer company’s Web site, bringing the number of server models that use the chip to 13. The announcement is further evidence that AMD’s troubled quad-core processor is back on track, following months of production delays and [...]

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If you want to know which way the economic wind is blowing, watch the chip-makers. That’s what economists on Wall Street are saying. They believe that if you want to know which direction the high tech industry is moving, see what’s happening in the chip industry. That’s where the warning signs will appear of trouble [...]

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