AMD Employee Charged for Stealing

A former Intel Corp. engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth $1 billion from the chip maker while he worked for its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts alleged this week in a five-count indictment that Biswamohan Pani, 33, illegally downloaded more than a dozen confidential documents from Intel’s computer [...]

Co Founder of AMD Dies

AMD CO FOUNDER, Ed Turney, has died of brain cancer at his old age home in Cupertino, aged 79.
Turney, one of seven AMD founders, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. After a stint in the US Navy during the Korean War as an electronics technician, Turney turned his hand to chips in 1963, [...]

Advanced Micro Devices in the Clear

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) won’t file criminal charges over the pricing and marketing strategies of graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies, now owned by Advanced Micro Devices, the company said Monday.
The DOJ told AMD on Friday the entire investigation is closed, said Michael Silverman, AMD spokesman.
The DOJ subpoenaed vendors AMD and Nvidia in late 2006 [...]

AMD to spin off manufacturing units

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of its cost saving strategy, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Sunnyvale-based AMD said it will make a “significant corporate announcement” and hold a conference call with industry analyst Tuesday hosted by Chief Executive Dirk Meyer. It did not give details [...]

Intel to Purchase AMD

This would be a good move, but it’s far from the truth. AMD is dealing with poor earnings and preparing for major changes. With the recent news about AMD’s CEO, the embattled Ruiz stepping down, what’s AMD planning to do to get out of this deep financial hole?

AMD’s recent downfall has certainly benefited Intel in [...]

AMD is Phenomenal!

AMD has provided both basic and ultra fast versions of its desktop processor line with three new Phenoms. The chips have the same basic architect, but are designed intentionally for different users by frequency, power consumption and price. The Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition–now AMD’s fastest quad-core desktop CPU at 2.6GHz–is designed for enthusiasts and [...]

A Gamers Ultimate Graphic Card

Advanced Micro Devices next generation Graphic Card with GDDR5 memory.
AMD announced that its next-generation ATI Radeon graphics cards will be the first commercial implementation of GDDR5 memory. According to AMD, the new memory will allow for faster, smaller, and cheaper graphics cards.
The GDDR5 has 5x higher data rates than that of GDDR3 and 4x that [...]

Windows SP3 Screws AMD

What’s new? Who would think that Microsoft would release a new update that is flawless and frictionless? Since the release of SP3, also known as Service Pack 3, HP computers with AMD processors are having major issues.

The root of the problem appears to be a power management driver. Microsoft says it’s working on the issue [...]