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AMD thinks its latest CPU launch surprised Intel

20 May 2009, 07:00

UK boss of AMD says the Phenom II X4 955 is being positioned against the Core i7 920, but costs less.

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Intel updates smartphone strategy

18 May 2009, 09:56

Increasing talk of the ‘Medfield’ platform as Intel positions itself for the form factors of the future.

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GlobalFoundries confirms TSMC recruit

13 May 2009, 10:06

Nascent semiconductor foundry continues to splash the cash with first direct raid on a competitor.

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Intel concedes importance of visual computing

12 May 2009, 16:56

The chip giant is investing $12 million in a new visual computing research centre in Germany.

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GlobalFoundries poaches top exec from TSMC

12 May 2009, 16:41

The word on the street is that Subramani Kengeri has been persuaded to defect.

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Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

7 May 2009, 17:30

NVIDIA’s integrated graphics for the Atom processor gathers momentum with another board launch.

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Intel invests in semiconductor device manufacturer

5 May 2009, 09:56

With GLOBALFOUNDRIES revealing ambitious growth plans, Intel shows manufacturing proactivity of its own.

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NVIDIA launches its own magazine

27 April 2009, 10:02

The graphics outfit is launching a magazine about digital graphics, and it wants you to pay to read it.

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New top techie for GLOBALFOUNDRIES

27 April 2009, 08:52

The spun-off semiconductor manufacturer gets a new head technology and research from Freescale.

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Intel launches new nettop board

23 April 2009, 10:29

Chip giant hopes to boost the small form factor desktop channel with a couple of new motherboards.

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AMD confirms Phenom II 940 price cut

20 April 2009, 12:19

The battle to be the mass-market quad core of choice is well underway as AMD and Intel jostle for position.

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Intel launches two new quad CPUs, drops some prices

20 April 2009, 11:21

A price list refresh reveals two new quad core CPUs and some price tweaks.

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Intel launches two new Atoms

8 April 2009, 10:59

IDF Beijing: Intel unveils a 2GHz Atom, demos its Moorestown platform and talks Larrabee.

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A-DATA to be consumer face of Intel SSDs

7 April 2009, 14:22

Memory outfit A-DATA has launched a co-branded Intel X25-M notebook solid state drive.

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NVIDIA focuses on virtualisation with new Quadro range

30 March 2009, 14:52

It’s not just the CPU makers jumping on this bandwagon as NVIDIA launches a new professional graphics range.

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Intel CEO discusses AMD, NVIDIA, IBM and Sun

26 March 2009, 14:11

Transcript of conversation between Paul Otellini and Intel employees offers insight into his views on a number of issues.

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ARM reveals its graphics ambitions

23 March 2009, 12:09

With its latest Mail GPU, ARM is hoping to dominate graphics on handheld devices as it already does CPUs.

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NVIDIA shelves NVISION ‘09

17 March 2009, 13:47

Graphics company tries to insist decision to cancel event has nothing to do with its own cash-flow.

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ARM responds to Intel, TSMC deal

13 March 2009, 17:05

Views move as inevitable if Intel wants to compete in the handset space as competition hots up between the two.

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NVIDIA branches out into venture capitalism

10 March 2009, 13:37

Graphics giant launches graphics startup company incubation initiative to fuel the growth of the GPU ecosystem.

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Seagate demonstrates next gen SATA

10 March 2009, 10:27

Hard drive maker teams up with AMD for first public demonstration of the new 6Gb/s interface.

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AMD launches a new FirePro card

9 March 2009, 10:29

New professional graphics accelerator puts the emphasis on power efficiency.

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Intel confirms TSMC Atom collaboration

2 March 2009, 17:14

As we predicted, Intel has confimed TSMC will manufacture Atom processors.

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Intel and TSMC to make ‘strategic announcement’

2 March 2009, 10:52

Later today Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will reveal the details of a new collaboration.

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NVIDIA unveils $99 MID platform

16 February 2009, 09:29

At Mobile World Congress the graphics maker has presented a Tegra based platform designed for MIDs.

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Target bringing Biostar AM3 boards to market from March

13 February 2009, 14:07

Sole Biostar distributor in the UK expects AM3 boards soon, but will there be many takers?

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Intel spending additional $7 bn on US 32nm manufacturing

10 February 2009, 14:00

Chip giant building manufacturing facilities in the US to make the next generation of its processors.

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AMD to launch high-end AM3 CPUs in Q2

9 February 2009, 11:22

As AMD fills out its mid-range and launches its DDR3 platform, we ask why it didn’t aim higher.

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Intel Atom N280 now shipping

6 February 2009, 09:57

The successor to the ubiquitous N270 netbook CPU looks set to be released into the wild early. Worth waiting?

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Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

5 February 2009, 15:46

X25 solid state drives for notebooks and for enterprise are given a big price cut, is it enough?

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AMD reveals new low-power server CPUs

26 January 2009, 09:12

Opteron HE processors target data centre market, with HP once more pioneering adoption.

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AMD drops Phenom II prices

20 January 2009, 09:38

As expected AMD has responded to Intel’s wide-ranging price cuts with some cuts of its own.

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Seagate reveals firmware bug in some hard drives

19 January 2009, 11:04

Some Barracuda and DiamondMax drives manufactured in December 2008 are failing.

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