Warning signals tough going for AMD
AMD's earnings warning shows it has entered difficult times
AMD's earnings warning shows it has entered difficult times
The chipmaker plans to release a 2.4GHz version of its Xeon chip for one- and two-processor servers during its developer conference today in Taiwan
AMD and Broadcom will attempt to draw some of the attention away from the Intel Developer Conference next week with major announcements of their own
This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's future mobile chips and demonstrated a few prototypes.
While in San Francisco to participate at Adobe's Engage event yesterday and do some work at CNET's headquarters (CNET is the parent company to ZDNet), I stumbled up an AMD press conference at the W Hotel.
Yes, Internet Explorer 9 is better than Internet Explorer 8, but there are better Web browser choices out there.
The first public discussions of its fastest chips will headline the semiannual Intel Developer Forum. AMD plans to chip in, too
Apple CEO takes the wraps off new iBooks and PowerBooks and bumps up the speed of the Power Mac G4 line
Network fabric is now fast enough that some components of a server’s motherboard may now run separately. But would such a separation be of value to anyone besides the makers of alternative processors?
While Intel struggles to get their 80-core processor to work, a company you've probably never heard of has been quietly shipping systems with hundreds of cores. Last year at JavaOne I attended a presentation by Cliff Click of Azul Systems on scaling up an application that used to take weeks to run so that it could finish in minutes. After the Intel announcement, I tracked down Cliff to get his thoughts on multicore hardware and software.