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• Article | 18/01/2012 AMD's Ultrathin Set to Undercut Intel Ultrabooks by $200

  AMD is preparing chipsets for thin laptops that would cost up to $200 less than an Intel-powered Ultrabook, according to a Digitimes report. AMD hopes...
• Article | 23/03/2011 Acer Aspire One 522 Netbook

  The Acer Aspire One 522 (model BZ897) delivers a good, classic netbook for a very reasonable price ($330 as of March 18, 2011). Petite and slim with a...
• Article | 3/02/2011 AMD's Fusion Packs More Graphics Punch in Netbooks

  Deciding how much graphics power is required when purchasing a PC has never been easy. Investing in a standalone graphics processor from AMD or Nvidia...
• Article | 24/01/2011 AMD handily beats fourth-quarter estimates

  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Thursday reported net profit for the fourth quarter that beat forecasts, due mainly to income from a patent license an...
• 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 | 30/12/2010 Charges filed in high-tech insider trading case

  Federal prosecutors allege a California woman committted securities fraud by passing information to hedge funds
• 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 | 31/08/2010 AMD says goodbye to the ATI brand

  Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it will remove the ATI name from its products by the end of the year, killing a brand name synonymous with graph...
• Article | 30/08/2010 Purdue app slows servers when cooling fails

  While chip manufacturers continue to make their processors ever more powerful, at least one customer has found it useful to slow these chips down, at ...
• Article | 25/08/2010 Laptops with AMD's Fusion chip to ship early next year

  Smaller and power-efficient laptops with Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Fusion hybrid chips will reach shelves "early next year," company officials ...
• Article | 30/07/2010 AMD overtakes Nvidia as top discrete graphics vendor

  Advanced Micro Devices overtook Nvidia during the second quarter to become the top discrete graphics card vendor, according to market research firm Me...
• Article | 16/07/2010 AMD fast on Fusion, but hesitant with tablets

  Advanced Micro Devices is ahead of schedule with its upcoming Fusion chips, which will appear first in netbooks and low-end laptops early next year, b...
• Article | 7/07/2010 AMD looks to boost Fusion ecosystem through investments

  Advanced Micro Devices is looking to invest in technology companies as it tries to build a hardware and software ecosystem around its upcoming Fusion ...
• Article | 19/06/2010 Acer chooses AMD chips for new netbooks

  Acer on Friday announced new netbooks based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices, a win for the chip company's efforts to grab market share from rival...