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Top 10: Economic woes, AMD splits, Microsoft developments Not all of this week's news involved global financial turmoil: while IT budgets are being cut and AMD is breaking itself up, a security tool was released for Firefox that prevents "clickjacking" and Microsoft said that Windows 7 will fix issues in Vista's user account Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spinning off fabs would be risky for AMD, analysts say Recent comments from AMD about controlling manufacturing costs have led to speculation that the company may divest its chip fabrication plants, but some analysts say that wouldn't make sense for AMD.The comments Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Intel launches probe into AMD's spin-off plans Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of AMD could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.On Tuesday, AMD announced plans to spin off its manufactu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Intel launches probe into AMD's spinoff plans Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of AMD could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.On Tuesday, AMD announced plans to spin off its manufactu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD's foundry spin-off may save company AMS's decision to spin off its chip-manufacturing business into a separate company just may save the floundering firm, analysts said.AMD's decision to split into a chip-designing company and a chipmaking company Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD Shanghai chip gets thumbs-up from OEMs Hardware vendors, which are just getting a first look at AMD's next-generation server chip, are giving the Shanghai processor an initial thumbs-up, analysts say.AMD is hoping the new hardware can help it rebound Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD breakup getting an enthusiastic response The financial world seems to be falling apart, but Advanced Micro Devices has just landed several billion dollars from two Abu Dhabi investment groups to fund "Asset Smart," a plan to spin off its chip manufacturing operations into a new company, tentatively called "T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Intel antitrust redux, AMD change, network woes The European Commission amended its antitrust charges against Intel that were filed a year ago to include three new claims. While that news was expected, word that Hector Ruiz has been replaced as head of Intel rival AMD was not. That news broke on Thursday, which was Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: AMD says Shanghai won't be another Barcelona Advanced Micro Devices said its Shanghai processor is on track to ship in servers by the end of the year and sought to reassure customers that the problems that delayed its previous server chip, Barcelona, are a thing of the past. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD jumps to 12-core chip, skips 8-core chip plans Advanced Micro Devices plans to release processors with 12 cores, which changes its product road map and kills earlier plans to release 8-core chips.The 12-core processor, code-named Magny-Cours, will be targete Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: AMD announces layoffs, drops revenue forecast AMD said on Monday it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force by the third quarter of 2008 in an effort to cut costs.AMD currently has 16,800 employees worldwide, said Drew Prairie, an AMD spokesman. The Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD launches 'Shanghai' quad-core Opteron With the launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Shanghai, on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices is looking to rebuild confidence among customers after problems with its Barcelona chip earlier this year. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD to use Qimonda's GDDR5 memory with upcoming GPU Advanced Micro Devices' next-generation graphics processors will ship with GDDR5 (Graphics Double Data Rate 5) memory from Qimonda, the companies said Tuesday.AMD's upcoming ATI Radeon R700 graphics chips are sc Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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ATI acquisition still weighing on AMD As AMD tries to cut costs and return to profitability, the 2006 acquisition of ATI continues to weigh on the company.AMD on Friday announced that it will take a charge of $880 million related to ATI's former bus Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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AMD Pounces on Laptops With New Puma Platform - TechNewsWorld eFluxMediaAMD Pounces on Laptops With New Puma PlatformTechNewsWorld - 57 minutes agoBy Walaika Haskins AMD has taken the wraps off Puma, its new laptop platform. Puma is perhaps the first real effort AMD has made to develop a chip specifically for mobility, focusing on Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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US rubberstamps AMD manufacturing spin-off CFIUS OKs AMD-ATIC TFC AMD's Abu Dhabi-funded manufacturing spin-off has been rubberstamped by the US Treasury Department.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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AMD shares jump at birth of The Foundry Company Now AMD stands for Abu Dhabi AMD shares rose more than 18 per cent on Wall Street this morning, following confirmation from the struggling chip maker that it will spin off its manufacturing operations and build a wafer fab in conjunction with its money-spinning bedfellow, the Advanced Technology Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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What AMD's fab spinoff means for Intel, industry - MarketWatch ReutersWhat AMD's fab spinoff means for Intel, industryMarketWatch - 4 hours agoBy Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- In spinning off its semiconductor plants, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is shedding the traditional trappings of a microproces Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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AMD accepts smaller stake in chip fab spin-off Lowered assets in ass-covering deal AMD will get a smaller stake in spinning-off its manufacturing arm into a separate wafer fab company and get less cash from the investment firm injecting funds into the deal.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Dell moves most AMD consumer PCs offline to retail Dell has scaled back the range of consumer PCs with processors from AMD that it sells on its Web site, focussing almost exclusively on systems with Intel processors.Dell's entire line of AMD-based laptops for co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |