AMD has filed a wide-ranging antitrust suit against Intel, accusing it of maintaining its monopoly in the PC processor market by illegally coercing customers around the world into using its products, AMD said Tuesday.
HP has released details about the xw9300, the company’s new top-of-the-line workstation, featuring Nvidia nForce Professional 2200 and 2050 graphics chip.
AMD is expected to unveil Turion, its new brand for 64-bit mobile processors in thin-and-light notebooks at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
AMD has developed a low-power chip for portable video players which supports MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV9 and DivX, eliminating the need for format conversion.
Further pitting itself against Intel's Pentium-M offerings, AMD on Monday expanded its line-up of mobile Athlon 64-bit processors to include the new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+, operating at 2GHz.
AMD has demonstrated the company's first dual-core microprocessors. Dual-core processors offer improved performance over single-core chips, especially in multithreaded applications.
The 64-bit extensions used by AMD and Intel Corp. are virtually identical and should not present any major software incompatibility problems, according to a report from market research firm In-Stat/MDR released Monday. But one small difference between the two architectures provides a glimpse of how the two companies manage to produce compatible products without formal interaction.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched its most powerful desktop processor to date at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany.