http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/technology/07amd.html quote Sales for the period that ended Sunday fell 9 percent from the first quarter, to $1.22 billion, Advanced Micro, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said yesterday in a statement. The company had previously forecast sales to be flat to slightly...

As was discussed in a previous thread, AMD's Socket S1 for laptops not only reduces the number of pins from 754 to 638, it also adds dual-channel memory vs. single-channel. Now it looks like it also has support for dual-processors, which I was not aware of before! This article also contains a...

Just had to post this -may be a little excited about AMD new chip- AMD 580X CrossFireâ„¢ Chipset - Specifications General * The worlds first single chip 2x16 PCI-E chipset * Enhanced support for over-clocking, and PCI Express performance * Fastest multi-GPU interconnect * Coupled...

I think I know why: becuase it followed the path early on to allow 3rd parties to make the motherboards and now it's worried about the relationship with those vendors. If AMD offered it's own board, yes it would hurt the 3rd parties, but it's own profits would soar I think. AMD recognizes the...

what's the difference between the athlon64 and the opetron? is it worth upgrading from a 1.7 ghz with a 400mhz bus i was thinking of getting the "Tyan Thunder K8W" (pci-x is a must) is this good? how out of date is that mobo? and lastly can i use it leaving one of the dual sockets empty?

Interesting how stuff comes together like Lego blocks. A surfer-dude physicist, Garrett Lisi, has probably solved the Theory of Everything, the theory that will explain everything in physics; this will probably put an end to the previous frontrunner for Theory of Everything called Superstring...

Hi Can anybody explain to me the difference between the two amd processors opteron and athlon 64 x2 on am2 design? I am having any problems seeing any real difference tom

Thinking to get a new PC. What should I get ? AMD or Intel ? AMD is cheaper than Intel. I am worried about the heat generated by AMD. Is it still very hot ?

AMD does come out with performance benchmarks higher than intel. But i find many AMD systems not performing as expected against the intel counterpart. and almost always its the intel that wins in every aspect. Why is the bench mark different from the true story?? and if its the case of...

It looks like the retail channel likes AMD. I have a feeling that Intel is running low on cash these days, and it can't afford to advertise as much as it once did. http://www.techweb.com/wire/networking/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=46802761 Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot...

The specs for Pacifica have been released, which is AMD's answer to Intel's Vanderpool virtualization. According to this overview, there seems to be only two instructions added to the regular x86 stack, which is VMRUN and VMCALL. Another interesting new idea they've incorporated is is a "Paged...

There was some speculation about AMD working on a mechanism that would allow a multiprocessor/multicore system to gang-up the cores and use it to execute single-threads much faster, also nicknamed as inverse Hyperthreading. I think you could even call it "micro multithreading", since it's finding...

There was a bug detected in the L3 cache of the newly introduced AMD Phenom and Barcelona quad-core processors. It's apparently what's causing the delay of the introduction of faster versions of the Phenom & Opteron(so far it's only available upto 2.3Ghz). Also it's resulted in AMD having to...

Pictures of the outside (and inside!) of the newly introduced low-cost AMD internet surfing thin-client called the PIC are now available. The device uses an AMD Geode embedded processor using 1W of power, and it runs a souped up Windows CE operating system. Slashdot | Photos and Commentary On...

DailyTech - AMD Picks up 9 High Profile Itanium Engineers http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1521 AMD has managed to wrangle away nine of Intel's top processor engineers. Samuel Naffziger and his eight colleagues were apart of the design team that helped to develop the Itanium server...

http://www.dailytech.com/Dodecacore+The+Megahertz+Race+is+Now+Officially+the+Multicore+Race/article11531.htm Hardware Dodeca-co The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi- core Race AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for...

Expecting to build it by 2008. It's had good luck in obtaining subsidies from Germany so far, but some new EU rules have gone into effect about the subsidies. Not sure how it's going to affect AMD's future subsidies. In the meantime, it's expecting to produce 10 million chips at Chartered...

Article in German: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/81183 Expected release 2008 earliest.

AMD published R600 instruction set. http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/r600isa.pdf This is the instruction set for the R600 GPU. I have only read part of this, it is a lot of info, and more for the die hard programmers I think. Yet some intersting things should be possible as far as speed up of stuff is...

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/34434.pdf