amd in comment and analysis
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Telepresence may be expensive and have significant compatibility issues but already larger companies are adopting it in droves such as AMD, AIG, British American Tobacco and Proctor & Gamble. Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring... [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up So spare a thought for owners of some AMD-based computers who are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot cycle. Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. [16 May 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment All three featured the G4 chips, which lagged badly behind Intel and AMD chips at the time. But then the MacBook Air arrived. Hit or miss? Seb Janacek assesses its chances. In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer... [06 Feb 2008]
Vinod Khosla
AS Profile He then moved to venture capital group Kleiner Perkins in 1986 where, among other things, he helped get AMD off the ground. Indian-born Khosla is another big figure in the venture capital world and has been picked out by the Agenda Setters panel... [12 Oct 2007]
Paul Otellini
AS Profile The battle for supremacy in the microprocessor market between Intel and arch rival AMD, which launched its quad-core chip in September, will continue. Otellini has been president and CEO since May 2005 but is an Intel veteran with more than 30... [12 Oct 2007]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Other heavyweight board members include AMD, eBay, Google and Nortel. Consolidating his position from last year is the man behind the One Laptop Per Child organisation - and the low-cost laptop that is aiming to bring computing to schoolchildren in... [12 Oct 2007]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Keynote speeches from large partners - AMD, Cisco Systems, Dell, HP and Sun Microsystems - are planned as well. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests Dawn Kawamoto, the future for... [25 Oct 2006]
Paul Otellini
AS Profile At the same time Intel has revealed plans to cut more than 10,000 jobs as competition with AMD continues to bite. Why? Chipping away in a tough market It's a slide down the Agenda Setters rankings for Paul Otellini, who became Intel's fifth CEO in... [25 Sep 2006]
Why AMD is putting its chips in one basket
Comment What lies behind the microprocessor mega-merger of AMD and ATI? Hector Ruiz, AMD's chief executive, said during a conference call on Monday with analysts: "Visual computing is playing a larger role in what we are doing going forward. [25 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment Since then, Intel's main business has been besieged on multiple fronts and seen renewed pressure from AMD. Chip giant Intel has long been hoping to make its computer processing expertise pay off in the communications and networking arenas but... [07 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment I think Solaris 10, now open-sourced, is the best new product we've introduced in 10 years - with DTrace, with ZFS, with containers, with trusted Solaris features, with the new, fast IP stack, with the self-healing features, with the coming... [24 Jun 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Hosted software - it's back
Comment No one is going to go through the process of contacting Intel and AMD to see which has the whizziest chip; HP, IBM and Dell to see who is selling the shiniest box; Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell to find the cheapest operating system; BEA, IBM and... [10 Dec 2004]
Leader: Dell wants blade runners
Leader Whether Dell would use AMD chips was yesterday again talked around by Dell CEO Kevin Rollins. It has also deepened its relationship with the company arguably still its main ally - and also hinted it may yet play off another ally, Intel, against a... [16 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: 64-bit computing - a state-of-the-art red herring?
Comment Ironically, while the processor giant has struggled to attract any interest, AMD’s 64-bit launch looks like making big waves in a number of directions. AMD has caused a splash in this otherwise turgid pond by announcing a processor that will... [27 May 2003]
What will make or break Wi-Fi?
Comment Chip makers AMD, Intel and Transmeta have been responding to this challenge with low-voltage processors for a number of years. Wi-Fi, wireless LAN, AirPort. Call it what you will, the wireless technology officially known as 802.11b is surfing the... [25 Mar 2003]
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