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xbit reports on an AMD Neo based Thinkpad coming from Lenovo. Yes, it is sort of a netbook. Lenovo ThinkPad X100e is based on AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 (single-core, 1.60GHz, 512KB cache, 15W, 65nm SOI) and AMD 780V core-logic with integrated ATI Radeon HD DirectX 10-supporting graphics core. The ...
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The Business Journal reports that in the wake of the Intel settlement AMD has reversed paycuts to their top execs. CEO Dirk Meyer's salary was raised to $900,000 from $720,000, Chief Operating Officer Robert Rivet's was raised to $650,000 from $552,500 and legal chief Tom McCoy's was put back to ...
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Tweaktown has compared driver performance going from the Catalyst 9.10 to 9.11 drivers under Windows7. It comes as no surprise that there's very little performance improvements when it comes to looking at the FPS. In saying that, there's a bit of movement for the HD 5850 in some areas and ...
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Beating the dead horse some more Fudo reports that Radeo HD 5970s are in short supply. What? You mean the 40nm process yields suck? No way! It has been over forty-eight hours since AMD globally launched its flagship Evergreen card based on 40nm architecture. Taking the crown as the fastest GPU ...
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Fudzilla has a first glimpse at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970. Our initial impression leads us to believe that the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC is a great card and an excellent performer. If you want the fastest money can buy and don't mind spending £530, €629 or $629, this card just might be your ...
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Anandtech has tested todays Flash 10.1 beta with GPU acceration on AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. Adobe Flash is horrible. I hate Flash. I have hated Flash for years. Flash is the worst excuse for video playback one can imagine, so I can only hope that these results get a crap load better, and ...
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Fudo reports on overclocked Radeon HD 5970 cards from XFX and Sapphire coming down the pipe. In addition to reference clocked versions, Sapphire and XFX are apparently first AIB partners that are going to do factory overclocked HD 5970 cards. We already told you that HD 5970 might be an ...
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Fudo reports that the deal between AMD and Intel makes AMD's x86 royalty free. Since this is a two way street, AMD will also give some patents to Intel and make the competition less exciting. Nehalem looks much like AMD’s Barcelona and AMD will concentrate on catching up with Intel and bringing ...
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 18, 2009 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it commenced a cash tender offer for up to $1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (the “notes”). AMD intends to finance the purchase of the notes tendered in ...
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 18, 2009 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will redeem all outstanding principal amount of its 7.75% Senior Notes due 2012 (the “Notes”) on December 18, 2009. The notice of redemption will be mailed to the holders of the Notes on November 18, 2009.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 18, 2009 — Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it intends to commence an offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes in a private offering. AMD intends to use the proceeds, along ...
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We received the following statement from AMD regarding a patent cross license agreement wtih Intel just minutes ago. On November 17, 2009 AMD made a Form 8-K filing with the SEC regarding the
Company’s settlement and patent cross-license agreements with Intel. A redacted
version of AMD and ...
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* 44-year IBM veteran led the company’s innovation and technology −
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 17, 2009 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that
Nicholas M. Donofrio, 64, has been appointed to the company’s board of
directors. Donofrio spent 44 years at IBM, starting as a logic and ...
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We have just released ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 for Windows 7, Windows Vista,
Windows XP, and Linux platforms on http://www.amd.com
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 Windows release include:
New Features
GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta ...
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• World’s most pervasive multimedia platform delivers impressive video quality
and advanced application performance on platforms powered by Vision Technology
from AMD −
Sunnyvale, Calif. — Nov. 17, 2009 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that the beta
Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta ...
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The Top 500 supercomputer list has been updated with news that Jaguar, a Cray XT5 supercomputer recently upgraded to 6 core Opterons has taken the top performance crown. You can read the press release here. Jaguar, which is located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing ...
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#1 Cray XT5™ system “Jaguar” at Oak Ridge National Lab features almost a quarter
million high-performance cores and is unrivaled world-wide
World’s highest performing GPU-based supercomputer ever is fueled by ATI Radeon™
RV770 architecture
PORTLAND, Ore.--The Six-Core AMD Opteron™ ...
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Jon Peddie Research notes that Q3 appears to have rebounded as far as sales of add on graphic boards. It was down just 7.2% year on year which is the smallest decline year on year since the market first started shrinking in Q2 of 2008. A quiet before a coming storm, the third quarter proved to ...
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The Wall Street Journal says that Moody's has upgraded AMD. Moody's Investors Service upgraded Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and said additional increases are possible in the wake of the company's $1.25 billion legal settlement with rival semiconductor maker Intel Corp. (INTC).
