and quad-core chips,” said Dale Ford, vice president, market intelligence, for iSuppli. “This represents a major reversal of fortune compared to 2006, when AMD had the advantage with its popular dual-core microprocessors, allowing it to gain share from...

as the limit where the integration of more cores will make more sense than optimizing the code-base, instructions and extensions. The big news about Singularity really is that Microsoft wants the OS to support heterogeneous microprocessors - microprocessors...

officer of AMD. Before AMD, he was at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, alter acquired by Compaq, which was acquired by HP), where he was a co-architect of the Alpha 21064 and 21264 microprocessors. It is too early to say whether Meyer’s engineering background...

versions of Intel’s Core 2 Duo and AMD’s Athlon X2 processors. "Because the 1682M achieves dramatically better performance per watt than do competing multigigahertz microprocessors, equipment manufacturers can use the processor as the basis for products...

declined by 34% even as unit shipments increased by more than 30% in the first four months of 2008 compared to the same period last year." Microprocessors, which account for roughly 14% of total semiconductor revenues, have experienced healthy unit sales growth...

its current CTO with a new CTO. Confused? No worries, the explanation follows below. Randy Allen, who was in charge of the AMD’s server and workstation business and previously oversaw microprocessor engineering for the company, has been promoted to the role...