AMD Promises To “Fix Quad-Core”. amd quad core. New York (NY) - At a conference with analysts held today, AMD acknowledged problems of bringing its quad-core processors to market and said that it the introduction of the chip has been a disappointment...

the time of this writing, AMD stock traded at $8.54, translating into a market cap of $4.74 billion, which is substantially below the purchase price of ATI, which AMD had acquired in 2006 for $5.4 billion. As a result, AMD recently said that that it will take...

if AMD initially claimed that the industry did not negatively react to the stepping issue, there is little doubt that the B2 brought down Opteron sales. McCarron told us that AMD needs to begin working on educating the market on its B3 Barcelona and trying...

Leahy come to mind. But whoever may be considered as a new CEO, it is clear that the first task will be to rally AMD’s employees to assemble the energy that is needed to pull through the difficult time. AMD declined to comment on the rumors....

made a massive order for an undisclosed number of 2.3 GHz quad-core Opteron processors (Barcelona) to break the 200 TFlops peak performance barrier (the Tata system has a peak performance of 170.9 TFlops). AMD gave these processors away for $1 a piece (don’t...

first place winner's charity of choice), and, of course, geek cred. The PC components lay on tables, ready for assembly: an AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core processor, an ATI Radion HD4800 GPU, and AMD 7-series chipsets. Cheerleaders did an acrobatic routine and...

The relationship with Nvidia is a very interesting one, so we’ll first analyze SNAP. mospagebreakSNAP - Strategic Nvidia-AMD Partnership As you may or may not know, the relationship between AMD and Nvidia has been a long one, starting with the first Xbox,...

replaces Barcelona later this year and, on paper, it looks impressive. AMD is promising better performance, lower idle power consumption, improved/pricing for performance and minimal changes over Barcelona. These are significant improvements and AMD argues...