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  AMD passing on phones, focusing on tablets and hybrids

  The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 09 January, 2013 11:07

  Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, hardware systems, Components, tablets, Lenovo, ultrabooks, processors

• AMD Radeon HD 6800 series is the new midrange graphics champ

  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

  Tags: pc components, graphics cards, AMD

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  Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle

  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

  Tags: AMD, intel

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  AMD talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion

  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

  Tags: pc components, AMD

• AMD, Intel budget chipsets go head to head

  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

  Tags: AMD, intel

• Laptop battery life benchmarks are out of juice

  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

  Tags: AMD, Lenovo, laptop batteries

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  Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia

  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

  Tags: x86 server market, Cyrix, transmeta, AMD, PowerPC, nvidia, intel

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  Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software

  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

  Tags: AMD, quad-core, intel