Advanced Micro Devices News

AMD has laid out its road map for processors through 2011, with an emphasis on a complete computing experience featuring stunning graphics and video.

A historic settlement between rival chip companies Intel and AMD shook the tech world on Thursday.

We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute.

Friday, 13 November 2009, 8:48 am Article: Businesswire While you were sleeping: Stocks slide, US jobless claims fall; Playboy may be sold Nov.

Advanced Micro Devices, aiming to leapfrog Intel in computer-processor technology, will release sample versions of new products next year.

Advanced Micro Devices is gearing up for the 2010 launch of Magny Cours, a more powerful Opteron server processor that will pack up to 12 cores and use faster memory chips.

A drop in energy stocks is dragging the market lower following a government report that consumers and businesses are trimming use of oil and gas.

If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

SC09 , the 22nd Annual Supercomputing Conference, takes place November 14 - " 20, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Wednesday its gross profit margin should improve next year as chip sales pick up.

The battle over Intel Corp.'s alleged antitrust offenses against Advanced Micro Devices escalated recently, but the two chip giants may yet decide to end the dispute through a settlement, a Barclays Capital analyst said Tuesday.

Microprocessor Unit Shipments Grow 23% in Q3 2009 - " Market Tracking Firm. [11/09/2009 03:54 PM] by Anton Shilov The global market of central processing units grew significantly both in terms of units and in terms of revenues.

Silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is still having yield issues with its 40-nm process, according to analysts.

ABU DHABI: Mubadala, the government-owned investment vehicle which owns a stake in Advanced Micro Devices, plans to manufacture chips in the Gulf Arab state in a bid to steal market share from industry leaders.

An offshore Advanced Micro Devices Inc. foundry is having trouble ramping up on production of a new 40-nanometer graphics processing unit, forcing PC makers to delay shipments of desktop and laptop computers, AMD confirmed today.

Nvidia Corp. shares climbed more than 6% Friday after the maker of chips for computer graphics reported 74% growth in quarterly earnings, aided by what Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang described as "healthy market demand across the board." Nvidia /quotes/comstock/15*!nvda /quotes/nls/nvda saw its shares rise 78 cents to $13.05 following the company's ...

Twenty people, including Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, have been criminally charged in what federal authorities call the biggest prosecution of alleged hedge-fund insider trading in the U.S. Prosecutors in Manhattan say they have evidence from wiretaps, trading records and cooperating witnesses to prove widespread trafficking in ...

Federal authorities have charged 14 individuals arising out of their ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms.

A deal's been reached between San Francisco apartment magnate Walter Lembi and the Clark County, Nev., district attorney's office over $298,500 worth of markers Lembi owes Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued Intel Corp. , accusing the computer company of violating state and federal antitrust laws.