AMD, IBM extend chip-development deal
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Chipmaker will pay Big Blue nearly $300 million, but move should help in competition with Intel.
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IBM is tweaking its semiconductor technology to help extend the performance of its servers and enterprise PCs, the company said Monday.
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IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) said Monday that they have developed a strained silicon transistor technology aimed at
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AMD and IBM have extended their CPU technology agreement through the end of 2008. Originally signed in December 2002, the alliance was originally slated to wind up at the end of 2005.
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InfoWorld - AMD is undaunted by rival Intel's recent headline-grabbing announcements of 45-nanometer processing technology and a deal to supply Xeon chips to Sun Microsystems, an AMD executive said on Monday.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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The issue: 65-nm and 45-nm chip components have shrunk so far that they are now smaller than the wavelength of the light used to carve those features onto silicon chips. To fight that trend, AMD and IBM said they will use three new technologies to boost manufacturing efficiency.
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) says software vendors  Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL),  Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) and Sun have pledged support for its next-generation dual-core computer chips.
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By Rodney Tanaka, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Dec. 13--PASADENA -- A local tech company is partnering with IBM to build  chips used in digital cameras and X-ray machines.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers today announced an advancement in computer-based simulations that is helping to drive chip technologies to new heights of performance and function.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) may yet team up with another chip maker for the construction of a semiconductor fabrication plant (fab) to expand its manufacturing capacity for microprocessors, despite shelving similar plans in 2003, according to a senior company executive.
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A competing chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices will likely arrive several months earlier.
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Dell Inc.'s announcement that it will expand its use of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. microprocessors is another win for the smaller chip maker against larger rival Intel Corp.
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The chipmaker appears to have met its most recent deadline for production of the smaller-featured chips.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD.N,   the world's number two maker of microchips for personal   computers, will supply China's second-largest PC maker with   chips, scoring its latest victory in a market share battle with   bigger rival Intel INTC.O.
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Sun to follow? Exclusive AMD has secured yet another major partner win thanks to Opteron. Starting with the Power7 processor, IBM will give up on making its own Unix/RISC box motherboards. Instead, it will plug the Power chips directly into slightly modified Opteron boards in an effort to save money.â¦
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun shipping commercial versions of its Athlon 64 processors made using a 90-nanometer process, marking another step forward in the company's transition to the more advanced manufacturing technology.