TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
With the release of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, AMD delivers fantastic value for the average PC gamer.
By Jason Cross | 04 November, 2010 11:31
The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.
By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 November, 2009 07:56
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.
By James Niccolai | 12 November, 2009 10:06
For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market. AMD's latest plan seems to be to push back on economic grounds -- to offer high-value budget chipsets targeted at the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 systems, and high-performance chipsets that are slightly slower, but much cheaper, than equivalent Intel products. And Intel is firing back.
By Frank J. Ohlhorst | 17 September, 2009 08:54
In an industry that gets off on throwing obscure benchmarks at buyers, laptop battery life is one of the easiest to understand.
By Eric Lai | 23 July, 2009 20:10
Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?
By Eric Lai | 12 March, 2009 09:08
Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.
By Sharon Gaudin | 25 September, 2008 09:15
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