Q&A: AMD gets ready for Barcelona launch
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An Advanced Micro Devices executive talks about 'seeding' key corporate accounts and having actual products in pipeline on the day of the launch.
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Toshiba's first AMD-based notebook in years is being launched in the U.S. and Europe.
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AMD's Triple-Core Phenom processor, which will hit desktops at the beginning of next year, may be the oddball that the CPU market never expected. BetaNews spoke at length to one of the people who came up with the idea: AMD's desktop brand manager Simon Solotko. Is there enough of a market in-between high-end dual core and low-end quad-core, to sneak in a running attack up the middle?
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Preparing Athlon 6400+ to fill the gap? AMD is gearing up to launch its fastest dual-core Athlon 64 processor yet, it has been claimed. Such a product would be handy: last week, the chip maker admitted its Phenom won't appear in significant volumes until Q1 2008, later than previously thought.â¦
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Hits stores in September Barcelona has arrived, sort of, and AMD is talking more about beating itself up than knocking Intel with the new chip.â¦
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Launch of high-performance Constellation system depends on delivery of quad-core 'Barcelona.'
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said Friday it would begin shipping its &quot;Barcelona&quot; quad-core Opteron processor in August, rebutting industry rumors that the chip faced manufacturing problems that could delay it until October.
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AMD's four-core desktop CPU squares up for a fight with Intel's Core 2 Quad Review Throughout last year, we ran a steady stream of news about the AMDâs Phenom quad-core processor, mainly because the chip was delayed. When the launch finally took place, AMD took us to Warsaw where we were told again and again about the virtues of its Spider platform: a combination of a Phenom processor, a motherboard with an AMD 790 chipset and a pair of ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards.â¦
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Earnings up... Chip monster Intel is upping its guidance for the third quarter - the day arch-rival AMD launches its Barcelona chip.â¦
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AMD uses a technology called PowerNow to control power supply to the processor depending upon how much of the processing power is being used.
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AMD will make the first public demonstration of a system build out of its dual-core processors today, the result of a strategy first made public almost a year ago.
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If you pay, you can fill our slot AMD has expanded its friends and family program in an obvious way by allowing partners to plug their CPUs, accelerators and other components directly into Opteron processor sockets. AMD's unveiling today of Torrenza 2 - aka the Torrenza Innovation Socket - builds on an existing deal that let third parties tap into the company's Hypertransport technology. Now, AMD has agreed to open up the entire Opteron socket specifications to preferred partners willing to pay a licensing fee. As a result, customers could start seeing some odd but fantastic motherboards with, for example, a mix of Opteron and Cell chips or even an UltraSPARC T1/Opteron combo.â¦
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Barcelona: 'It could have been a contender' Exclusive Intel looks set to blunt AMD's August Barcelona processor release by handing customers a 2.0GHz version of its four-core Clovertown, The Register has learned.â¦
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It's history, perched on a fence Analysis Vendors, vendors everywhere: Yep, all the major players turned up in Barcelona at the EMEA launch of AMD's so-called "native" quad-core Opteron processor chip. Well okay, nearly all.â¦
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TechWeb - The processor&#39;s sweet spot will be in four-way servers, and midrange two-way servers, but AMD will need to show increased performance for the price if it wants to add customers, analysts suggest.
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Server makers are showing their first systems based on AMD's new quad-core Opteron chip, known as Barcelona.
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AMD is looking to take market share in the server, corporate desktop and notebook space using its x86 architecture. &quot;We&#39;re talking x86 chips down to a buck,&quot; said AMD CEO Hector Ruiz at a conference on Friday.