Tag archive: Dirk Meyer

Last October, chipmaker AMD announced a bold move: to keep its costs under control, the company would go fabless, spinning off its factories in a partnership with Abu Dhabi into The Foundry Company. The spinoff would, naturally, make chips for AMD, but also take on manufacturing tasks for other companies. Meanwhile, AMD could focus on design—and would gain some financial stability from the deal. Although the process has taken longer… Read More

After writing down substantial sums on its $5.4 billion purchase of ATI back in 2006, AMD is beginning to divest itself of some of the assets of that sale, announcing today that it has struck a deal with Broadcom to buy all AMD's digital television business and assets for $192.8 million in cash. The announcement follows AMD writing down another $880 million on its ATI acquisition, Hector Ruiz stepping down as CEO, and announcing… Read More

Struggling chipmaker AMD has reported an operating loss of $1.189 billion for the second quarter of 2008, as the company formally announces it plans to divest itself of its handheld and digital television product businesses which it acquired with graphics developer ATI back in 2006. However, perhaps more importantly, AMD has decided to change the man at the top: long-time CEO Hector Ruiz has announced he is stepping aside, to be replaced… Read More

Chipmaker AMD today launched “Business Class,” a PC brand featuring AMD Phenom and Athlon processors aimed squarely at business users rather than home users, consumers, or PC enthusiasts. The initial desktop offerings are based on AMD's 780V chipset and are designed to appeal to small and medium sized businesses; AMD pans to add notebook computers and enterprise-grade systems to the equation as they move the brand forward.… Read More

With a simple upgrade path to more efficient computing, based on AMD's existing system infrastructure and industry-standard architecture, enterprise customers can expect more efficient processing power without the penalties of increased power consumption and heat dissipation. The dual-core AMD Opteron processor for servers and workstations is expected to offer the best performance per watt in the market when AMD plans to make it… Read More

From AMD's press release: AMD announced today that it is achieving a smooth transition to 90 nanometer (nm) manufacturing and has shipped low-power 90nm Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processors for thin and light notebooks (previously codenamed "Oakville") for revenue. Manufacturers are expected to launch systems based on the new 90nm Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processors in the coming months. In addition to providing performance and… Read More

The AMD Athlon 64 FX processor delivers what no other PC processor can: the highest overall 32-bit performance for today's demanding applications and the power of 64-bit computing for the next waveof software. Specifically designed for gamers, PC enthusiasts and digital content creators, the AMD Athlon 64 FX processor is the most technically advanced and highest performing 32-bit and 64-bit PC processor inthe world. Systems based on the… Read More

Microsoft made the announcement at AMD's launch of the AMD Athlon (TM) 64 processor in San Francisco. The updated 64-bit operating system, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems, whichwill run natively on AMD Athlon 64 processor-powered desktops and AMD Opteron (TM) processor-powered workstations, provides the superior performance needed by consumers and business customers for thenext generation of high-performance desktop… Read More