NewsFactor - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices released three new Phenom quad-core processors for the desktop Tuesday, including an X4 9550 Black Edition that allows users to increase the clock speed. -- read full article
PC Magazine - On Tuesday, AMD announced a new version of its flagship "Black" Phenom X4, as well as two energy-efficient versions of the Phenom X4 chip. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The processors are billed as energy efficient and ideal for small and sleek PCs that can help cut down on energy consumption. -- read full article
PC World - Intel said its mobile chips could dominate in the long run by offering value and software compatibility that competitors like... -- read full article
Reuters - Intel Corp , the world's
biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of
Microsoft Corp, has no immediate plans to roll out the software
giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
PC World - HP and Hitachi boosted blade offerings, with Hitachi upgrading blades to use new Intel chips and HP combining blade servers in... -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:40:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
Investor's Business Daily - The widely tracked Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 17% in the first quarter. But the index -- a basket of 18 leading chip stocks tracked by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange -- has risen 14% since March 17 to 384. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:38:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has proposed the Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, specification to enable applications to access GPU and CPU resources through a C-based language. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
NewsFactor - On the same day competitor Nvidia released its GPU 200 series of high-end graphics chips, Advanced Micro Devices announced what it called "the Cinema 2.0 experience" that will be possible because of its forthcoming teraFLOPS graphics chip. -- read full article
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:44:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Code-named the R700, the card will have two HD 4870 GPUs and will deliver the highest performance of any AMD ATI card. -- read full article
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:25:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem is an economical alternative to mainframes for the financial, telecommunications, and medical industries, company executives said. -- read full article
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
Investor's Business Daily - The one-laptop-per-child effort has had its problems, notably a fight between chipmaker Intel and the nonprofit group leading the effort, but there has been progress. -- read full article
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:18:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
