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Article | 12/03/2013 Product snapshot: AMD "Richland" APU
AMD is trying to get noticed again in the notebook space with a new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed Richland, which is based on, but impro...
Article | 28/02/2013 Xbox 360 interview: AMD Asia Pacific and Japan managing director and corporate vice president, David Kwon
After being president of AMD Korea, David Kwon, was promoted recently to managing director and corporate vice president of the Asia Pacific and Japan ...
Article | 10/01/2013 AMD points to APU momentum at CES 2013
Kevin Lensing, director of AMD's Notebook Product Line, exuded a quiet confidence at a briefing at the 2013 CES show.
Article | 4/12/2012 Three more Microsoft Surface tablets may arrive in 2013
Although Microsoft is just getting started with its 2012 Surface tablets, the company plans to launch three new devices in the next year, according to...
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...