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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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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It’s been delayed many times, but AMD’s Barcelona processors, formally known as the Quad-Core Opteron, are finally shipping. The processors were due more than a year ago but were repeatedly postponed. Then came the launch event in August 2007, with chips in the 1.8GHz to 2.0GHz range and the promise of a 2.5GHz model by [...]

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Chipmaker AMD has announced several layoffs recently. This one, the company claims, has nothing to do with that. AMD‘s chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. The company will not be filling his position, but instead will rely on CTOs in individual technology groups within the company to run the show. AMD has more than [...]

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AMD says that its first quarter sales will be below expectations, and that it will be laying off 1,680 employees – 10% of its workforce. The company says that it expects revenue of $1.5 billion for the first quarter – about 6% below Wall Street’s $1.62 billion consensus. More important, sales dropped 15% from the [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc divulged new chips for the desktop personal computer market on Wednesday, in a move that could hone its position against rival Intel Corp. Among the chips in AMD’s Phenom family of processors is one that has three cores compared with the two or four most generally available. AMD said that its [...]

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