Advanced Micro Devices News

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Toward the end of trading Thursday, the Dow was down 0.10 percent to 15,259.91, while the NASDAQ rose 0.13 percent to 3,476.15. The S&P traded down, falling 0.23 percent to 1,654.47. Top Headline US stocks saw some volatility on Thursday, fluctuating between gains and losses, following the disappointing economic data released this morning.

Shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. headed south on Thursday after Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered the company's credit rating by one notch to 'AA' with a negative outlook.

Advanced Micro Devices was downgraded by Goldman Sachs from neutral to sell, sending the stock down 14.8% Thursday morning.

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices were off more than 12 percent Thursday on a downgrade from Goldman Sachs.

Dell intends to move workstations into the data center and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients.

Meanwhile, the security's 50-day International Securities Exchange , Chicago Board Options Exchange , and NASDAQ OMX PHLX call/put volume ratio stands at 3.07, confirming calls bought to open have more than tripled puts during the past 10 weeks.

Shares of Cisco Systems and Tesla Motors jumped in premarket trade on Thursday as shares of Advanced Micro Devices fell.

SUNNYVALE, CA, May 15, 2013 -- AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world's fastest notebook graphics card .

Dataram Corp., an international manufacturer of computer memory and software products, announced an expanded partnership with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMD has launched its latest graphics processor for mobile PCs: the AMD Radeon HD 8970M is going to be AMD's highest-performing laptop GPU, probably until the next generation architecture hits.

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As Advanced Micro Devices and Intel implement their next-generation of CPU, a larger emphasis has been placed on performance per watt this cycle, making both viable for mobile solutions.

The servers are available from vendors like Penguin Computing and ZT Systems, and will offer a balance of performance and cost, AMD officials said.

Chip stock Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. was the subject of a bullishly slanted call spread on Friday.