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  • Intel settles New York antitrust case

    Intel historians will remember similar charges brought against Intel which were settled. AMD took $1.25 billion from the company's coffers, while the US Federal Trade Commission also successfully brought Intel to book on antitrust allegations.
  • Microsoft milks New York Fashion Week

    We’ve seen blatant attempts at crashing someone else’s party just to get some attention - AMD at IDF comes to mind - but Microsoft has enough dosh to throw around to start its own IT Fashion Week. Of course, leeching the existing one might be more cost-effective.
  • Hybrid drives are best of both worlds

    Hardware RoundupWe’ve got a few gems for you today, starting off with Tom’s Hardware and the Seagate’s Momentus XT 750 GB hybrid drive, now in its second generation. It seems hybrid drives manage to combine the best of both worlds – SSD and HDD – at an affordable price.
  • AMD dons white coat for HSA processing breakthrough

    AMD has unveiled a CPU-GPU integration technique that it reckons could boost processing power by over 20 percent.
  • AMD named as clean capitalism company

    AMD has been named by Corporate Knights on its inaugural list of the S&P 500 Clean Capitalism Ranking.
  • Ultrabook prices set to drop in run up to Ivy Bridge

    Even AMD is shaping up to offer some competition with its own version of the MacBook Air, and is hoping to gets its prices around the $800 mark without a reduced sticker in sight.
  • Avast! AMD Sea Islands sighted

    The recent financial analyst day for AMD was intended to be a turning point for the company’s fortunes, which have suffered from Bulldozer's ‘ahead-of-its-time’ performance and a lukewarm holiday season that has left most hardware vendors wanting.
  • Microsoft publishes Accelerated Massive Parallelism spec

    AMP is something that Microsoft has hatched out with AMD and Nvidia. It allows AMP programs to use both the main CPU and Direct3D video cards and the plan is to make the specification permit OpenGL/OpenCL too.
  • AMD ponders picking up ARM

    AMD is allegedly thinking about using ARM CPU cores as part of a move which new CEO Rory Read calls being "ambidextrous" when it comes to architectures.
  • HP leaks Xeon server details

    It looks like HP wants to drop AMD from the equation to make it easier to tightly integrate components and software in its servers to make deployment and management easier.
  • Intel does not drop its prices

    New price lists released from Intel indicate that Chipzilla is holding prices for now, probably thanks to a lack of serious competition from AMD.
  • Cray cuts the cost of its midrange supercomputers

    This means petascale technologies and scalable architecture of the Cray XE6m and Cray XK6m line. But they also have some of the best bits of Cray's high-end systems, such as Gemini interconnect, the latest version of the Cray Linux Environment, AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors and Nvidia Tesla GPU
  • Rapid roundup of the day

    Hardware RoundupWhile most of the web is still a-buzz with AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 graphics, life goes on for the rest of the hardware sites.
  • Nvidia's Kepler suffers wobbly perturbations

    RumourToday's AMD Radeon 7950 release saw the embargo lifted on a funny little saga which you can read about here. But another hell-on-earth yarn from the rumour mill is even more interesting. TechEye has heard Nvidia has been asking hacks why the reviews have been so good.
  • AMD's Radeon HD 7950 is out, at long last

    As soon as the clocks struck midnight, the world and its dog in the hardware review business posted multiple reviews of AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 and its various tweaked versions. The NDA was over.
  • Work started on Blue Waters supercomputer

    Cray is receiving $188 million for building Blue Waters. It is based around 235 Cray XE6 cabinets that use AMD's 16-core Opteron 6200 processors combined with 4GB of memory per Opteron core for a total of 1.5 petabytes.
  • AMD gives the nod to LRDIMM memory

    Inphi has managed to get its load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) running on the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors, formerly code-named Interlagos.
  • AMD quests for new software Holy Grail

    Fabless chipmaker AMD is going on a quest to find a new "holy grail" by making parallel computing easy to program.

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