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AMD targets hosting providers with new Opteron chip
Chip maker AMD earlier this week launched its Opteron 3200 Series of processors that the company says is targeted at the cloud server market. According to AMD ( NYSE: AMD ), the three new chips are
VGA, DVI interfaces expected to wane over next five years
Expect the venerable VGA (Video Graphics Array) port and even the newer DVI port to become a thing of the past over the next five years. So says a new NPD In-Stat study released late last week. In a
New AMD platform aims to beat Ultrabooks on price
AMD is preparing to roll out a new chipset for ultrathin computers to undercut Intel ( NASDAQ: INTC ) Ultrabooks by as much as 20 percent, reports Monica Chen at DigiTimes. Even as Intel nears its
AMD ultra-thin platform could debut next month; will compete with Intel Ultrabooks
AMD ( NYSE: AMD ) has revealed that the company is putting together a platform that will compete with Intel's ( NASDAQ: INTC ) Ultrabooks . This was revealed in an interview by The Australian with AMD's
Android 4.0 ported to x86 platform, may come to PCs
The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system has been ported over to the x86 platform by a group of volunteer developers at Android-x86.org . Unlike previous versions of Android that were
Intel shows off Knights Corner, 50-core chip with 1 teraflop performance
Intel ( NASDAQ: INTC ) this week unveiled the Knights Corner co-processor that it says is capable of delivering one teraflop of floating point performance. Part of a new architecture called MIC (many
Chinese supercomputer Sunway BlueLight MPP eschews Intel, AMD for homegrown chips
China has developed a new supercomputer said to pack a peak theoretical performance of 1.07 petaflops. Called the Sunway BlueLight MPP, its number crunching abilities will likely place it among the
AMD processor sets speed record of 8.4GHz
AMD ( NYSE: AMD ) has announced that its FX processor was overclocked at a frequency of 8.429GHz, a Guinness World Record touted by the company as a "stunning result for a modern, multi-core
AMD encroaching on Intel's share of x86 processor market
Market research firm Mercury Research says AMD ( NYSE: AMD ) saw its share of the global x86 microprocessor market jump to 19.4 percent in Q2 from 18.2 percent in Q1 and just 17.8 percent in Q2 of
Spotlight: Sony's new Vaio Z laptop
I got my hands on Sony's new Vaio Z series laptop , first unveiled last week, at a launch event in Singapore today. Despite weighing a mere 2.6 lbs and being 0.66 inches thick, this is a full-fledged,
