To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is adopting an aggressive strategy whose goals include the introduction of new ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime.
Advanced Micro Devices is denying reports that executives have taken steps that could lead to the company's sale.
AMD has announced that processors based on its much-anticipated Piledriver architecture are now available to the public, in a move that marks the company's competitive return to the world of high-end desktop PCs.
AMD has announced that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive.
Four executives at publicly traded technology companies have been arrested on charges they sold inside information about their employers, sometimes for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Intel has expanded its share of the server microprocessor market, taking advantage of a slow product transition at perennial rival AMD, according to figures released on Wednesday by analyst firm IDC.
PC maker Dell is looking into Advanced Micro Devices' Fusion processors for use in future laptops and desktops as it tries to make PCs smaller and more power-efficient, a company executive said.
Open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to take full advantage of the latest spoils from the heated microprocessor battle between AMD and Intel.
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) grabbed a bigger piece of the global market in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Desktop processor technology took a significant step forward this month with the unveiling of six-core processors by both Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, analysts say.
Intel is preparing six-core chips for high-end desktops and servers for release in the first half of this year, the company said Wednesday.
Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said.
Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz allegedly shared confidential information with a Wall Street trader connected to an insider-trading scandal, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal.
Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming 12-core chips will draw the same power as existing six-core chips, but will have reduced clock speeds, a company official said Monday.
One Laptop Per Child has refreshed its XO-1 laptop hardware, dumping chips from AMD in favour of ones from Via Technologies.