AMD on rebound, says CEO
AMD may have fallen behind Intel in manufacturing efficiencies, but product innovations will help it rebound, Hector Ruiz, AMD’s chairman and CEO, said at the company’s recent annual shareholder meeting.
AMD may have fallen behind Intel in manufacturing efficiencies, but product innovations will help it rebound, Hector Ruiz, AMD’s chairman and CEO, said at the company’s recent annual shareholder meeting.
New Zealand startup companies are being offered more growth opportunities as part of a new Microsoft initiative to drive high-tech growth.
A new version of the XenSource virtualisation hypervisor, released on Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.
The leading quote from last week’s news comes from Intel CEO Paul Otellini: “We’re doing product refreshes every two years, which is the model we invented and then stopped doing after Pentium 4, shame on us,” Otellini said. “We fell off it — mea culpa, we screwed up — and now we’re back on that pace.”
I wrote a column in 2005 called How will Dell Offset the Loss of Intel’s Generosity? In it, I asserted that Dell needed to overhaul its strategy and focus to make up for the coming loss of Intel’s ... oh, call it what you like, price supports, subsidies, loyalty bonuses, or what business calls MDF (market development funds).
Intel and the Irish government are building the largest research initiative in the world dedicated to developing healthcare technologies specifically for the elderly.
The outstanding development roadmap for Intel’s Xeon processors was the main attraction for Sun in choosing to form a long-term alliance with the chip-maker last week.
Still reeling from the effects of a reorganisation that included heavy lay-offs, Intel reported a profit of US$1.5 billion for the October-December financial quarter, down 39% on the same period last year.
Sun Microsystems has announced an alliance with Intel, a move that will greatly expand Sun’s involvement with the chip maker and continue its slow and long embrace of the x86 world.
Dell launched its first notebook PC powered by a processor from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) instead of an Intel chip.
Intel’s legal staff might as well buy homes in Delaware. That’s the venue for AMD’s anti-trust action against Intel. This month, Transmeta petitioned the Delaware Federal District Court to find that Intel has violated ten of Transmeta’s patents. The killer patent of the group is the one granted to Transmeta in August. It relates to adaptive power control, which Intel claims to have mastered in its Core micro-architecture.
Let me ask you: if your wildest dreams were realised, how many cores per CPU would you have in your servers, workstations and power desktops right now? How much Level 2 cache memory would you have in each core, or would you rather it be shared amongst the cores? Would you rather have memory controllers for each pair of cores that access a set-aside block of memory, or one memory controller that sees the entire address space?
One teraflop, one terabyte and one terabit per second — that’s the sort of performance Intel is promising future processors will deliver.
Was anyone else surprised to learn that BBC TV presenters with “significant brain injuries” aren’t too dissimilar from TV presenters that don’t have such damage?
Merom, the long-awaited mobile companion to the Conroe (desktop) and Woodcrest (server/workstation) processors, was launched by Intel last week.