On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices announced the AMD FX-9590, the first 5GHz microprocessor for the PC—at a time, unfortunately, when even PC enthusiasts care little about the processor’s clock speed.

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The release today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of its 4th Gen EPYC Genoa CPU marked the start of what is expected to be a series of announcements from major chipmakers in the months ahead. “AMD is ...

IDC on Thursday said the worldwide PC microprocessor industry experienced sluggish growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, and offered a conservative forecast for the industry in 2011 due to delays to ...

With its largest increases in the laptop and server sectors, AMD's total market share climbed to 22.1%, a 53 basis point improvement over the previous quarter. While server market share also rose, the ...

Advanced Micro Devices released new details on its long-awaited Fusion chips, which combine graphics and microprocessor functions into a single chip in a computing platform that will launch in 2011.

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. hopes to one-up industry giant Intel Corp. with its new 64-bit microprocessor for PCs. Introduced yesterday, the Athlon 64 is the first 64-bit chip used in ...

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The showdown between leading chip supplier Intel and rival AMD dominated the semiconductor landscape in 2006, and, according to one market research firm, AMD came out on top. Intel suffered a revenue ...

AMD is at least the ninth tech company where newly hired GC Ava Hahn has played a key role. She also is a former GC of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Veteran technology lawyer Ava Hahn will ...