Former CEO and president of ATI, Dave Orton, announced on Tuesday he will be leaving Advanced Micro Devices at the end of the month. Orton helped oversee his company's merger last year with AMD, and up until now held the post of executive VP at AMD.
The past few days have seen a few unsettling rumors regarding plans for AMD to leave the fabrication business. Articles and discussion were seen pretty much everywhere. While it was certainly plausible, given their dismal performance the past six months or so, AMD has come out to dispel those rumors.
Here's a grim message for investors worried about Intel Corp.'s admission that its gross margins won't improve this year: Get used to it.
Analysts say the gloomy gross margin forecast is one of the clearest signs yet that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is gradually prying loose Intel's grip on the microprocessor industry.
Australian AMD employees have survived the chopping block as the company sacks 375 staff after acquiring graphics chip maker ATI Technologies.
The sackings are going ahead despite the company beating estimated financial earnings for this year. AMD reported third-quarter profits of $US134 million in October, 2006.
A local AMD spokesperson yesterday confirmed Australian staff numbers will remain the same with employees unaffected by the layoffs.
Four weeks after beating Wall Street estimates for financial earnings, chip maker AMD will lay off 375 workers, according to published reports. The move will weed out redundant positions caused by AMD's acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI, analysts said. The layoffs were reported in various newspapers with information attributed to an AMD spokesman.
The Taiwanese publication DigiTimes is reporting on rumors that a new AMD-based Apple notebook may be on the way.
According to the technology site, Taiwanese component makers are reporting an large increase in orders for capacitors for use in a new Apple laptop with AMD inside.
Resourceful hackers have already documented that Apple's operating system, OS X Tiger, is fully capable of running on AMD chips. But so far Apple's switch from PowerPC processors to the x86 architecture has been an exclusive switch to Intel.
Advanced Micro Devices is firing back at Intel today with a new version of its Opteron chip for business computers.
The Sunnyvale company's new chips are its first response to a highly touted server chip from Intel launched in July. The new Opteron chips use a new kind of socket for a computer system board, which in turn allows AMD to use more power-efficient memory chips in computer servers.
AMD announced today that they're merging with video giant ATI Technologies.
What's that going to mean for you and me? Nothing much for a year or so, despite all the punditry you'll see in the next few days.
First, ATI shareholders have to approve the deal (likely). Then AMD has to gear up to include ATI's technology into their products (or is it the other way around?), something AMD has probably been playing around with for a while.
AMD is slated to unveil its new AM2 desktop platform.
Ron Myers, worldwide infrastructure business development manager for AMD, informed system builders of the announcement on Monday at the Tech Connect XChange in Las Vegas.
AMD today admitted it has inadvertently allowed a number of 2.6GHz and 2.8GHz single-core Opteron x52 and x54 processors that could corrupt data under extreme conditions to escape into the wild.
