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Article | 20/01/2011 AMD puts Fusion processors into embedded systems
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced Fusion processors for embedded systems as it tries to put its chips in new devices such as set-top boxes...
Article | 11/01/2011 Meyer resigns as AMD's CEO
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief e...
Article | 11/01/2011 AMD CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns
Dirk Meyer, CEO and president of AMD, has resigned effectively immediately. AMD's Board of Directors has announced that Senior Vice President and CFO ...
Article | 8/01/2011 Hardware companies prepare for Windows on Arm
Hardware companies are preparing for the future launch of Microsoft's Windows OS on Arm but have differing views of what kinds of devices the OS will ...
Article | 4/01/2011 AMD's Fusion processors to go into $200 laptops
After years of talks and demonstrations, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday started shipping Fusion processors for netbooks, laptops and small desktops...
Article | 17/12/2010 FBI: Executives at Dell, AMD sold inside information
Four executives at publicly traded technology companies have been arrested on charges they sold inside information about their employers, sometimes fo...
Article | 14/12/2010 Tablets changing the way chip makers think
The emergence of tablets as an alternative to PCs has caught the attention of chip makers, which are preparing next-generation processors to boost app...
Article | 25/11/2010 ARM co-founder: Intel is dead on the desktop
Intel is doomed, Hermann Hauser has claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. If you don't know who Hauser is, he happens to be one of the...
Article | 24/11/2010 Open Source Driver Debuts for AMD Fusion Chip
Chip maker AMD on Monday reportedly released an open source driver for the first chip in its new Fusion line, giving Linux users a new, open source-fr...
Article | 17/11/2010 AMD to ship first Bulldozer server chips in Q3
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it will start shipping next-generation Opteron server chips based on the new Bulldozer architecture starting in...
Article | 16/11/2010 AMD joins Intel's MeeGo OS effort
In an effort to expand software compatibility for its upcoming Fusion chips, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday joined rival Intel's efforts to develop ...
Article | 10/11/2010 AMD ships first Fusion chips for laptops, netbooks
Advanced Micro Devices has started shipping units of the first low-power Fusion chips for use in consumer laptops and netbooks, a company official sai...
Article | 10/11/2010 AMD eyes tablets with upcoming Fusion chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it was developing a range of new mobile processors, including processors for tablets and quad-core chips for ne...
Article | 19/10/2010 AMD announcing next-generation graphics cards this week
Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce its second-generation of DirectX 11 graphics cards this week, and also to show off its latest hybrid Fusion c...
Article | 15/10/2010 AMD to target tablet market with its chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it wants to put its chips in tablets, relenting after months of denying any interest in that market.