In the past few years, AMD has regularly updates its range of CPUs, graphics cards and chipsets, each time complementing their logos designed for a long time. Looks like it’s time to upgrade yet and – at the recent presentation of mobile APU line Elite A were seen original labels with unique design.
One of the leaders in the industry microprocessor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced a deal with investment company Spear Street Capital on the sale of the campus Lone Star Campus in Austin (Texas). The transaction value is $ 164 million, which corresponds to the previously announced plans to gain from the sales office, located in an area of 58 acres, of the order of $ 150-200 million
Following Intel released its financial results for the company and also AMD. In the fourth quarter, its revenues were $ 1.16 billion, up 9% compared to the previous quarter and by 32% compared to the same period last year. Revenue for the full 2012 fiscal year were $ 5.42 billion, or 17% less than it was in 2011.
One of the world’s largest manufacturers of microprocessors Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), is experiencing significant problems due to the stagnation of the PC market, plans to improve the financial position through the sale of Lone Star Campus campus leaseback. AMD representative Drew Prairie (Drew Prairie) said the agency Reuters, the company suggests to gain from the sale of the campus, located in Austin on a plot of 58 acres, about $ 150-200 million, he said, the situation in that part of town, where the campus is quite favorable, which can count on finding a buyer who would be willing to provide a multi-year building lease. Make a deal for the sale of Lone Star Campus company expects second quarter 2013
November 8 was launched on Nintendo Wii U console in the U.S. market. Although it is well known that in a game console is used graphics accelerator Radeon HD, which is under the same package, with an IBM Power, AMD has used the opportunity to remind her of this important fact.
Taiwanese company Foxconn mainly produces devices for its customers. But sometimes it launches products with private label, as in the case of the AT-5570. This mini PC Nettop kind, equipped with a hybrid processor AMD C-70, included with the Brazos 2.0.
AMD is hoping to close the gap at the start in the confrontation with the ARM and Intel in the tablet market with Windows 8. As the marketing director for AMD, John Taylor (John Taylor), the time at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in early January will be presented from six to ten tablets based Hondo chip and Windows 8.
Supplier of processors and graphics solutions Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the financial results of the third quarter. As stated in the preliminary results of the company, AMD revenue decreased compared to the previous quarter by 10% to $ 1.27 billion, which is less than the same period last year by 25%.
A few days ago AMD confirmed that sales of its products are falling. Following this authoritative publication CNET, All Things D, Bloomberg and Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that the chip maker is planning urgent steps to reduce costs – namely, dismissal of employees 3500. However, some sources do not agree at a Glance: someone points out that it would be laid off between 10 and 20% of staff, others believe that the number of laid-off employees will reach 30%.
One of the leading developers of Samsung chips Mergard Jim (Jim Mergard) announced the transition to Apple. At Samsung Mergard worked, reportedly to build ARM-chips for servers in June 2012 Prior to this, he spent 16 years engaged in the development of AMD processors, including the AMD Brazos. Recently held in Mergard AMD senior vice president and chief engineer.
AMD has completed its fiscal third quarter on September 29. Final results of the reporting period does not let down, but the manufacturer has evaluated the preliminary results of its activities.
AMD significantly improved performance of its hybrid desktop processors, which launched a new generation of accelerated chip Trinity.Energy consumption of the company is difficult to compete with Intel, but the new family includes a number of very interesting 65-watt processors, according to AMD, suitable for a silent multimedia systems.
AMD has used in the desktop platform Socket FM1, which is usually denoted by the code name Lynx, accelerated processors Llano. A distinctive feature is the availability of data APU integrated graphics Radeon HD 6000D. Also on the platform Socket FM1 Athlon II chips operate with two and four cores, but without iGPU. Thus, children from Sunnyvale can get rid of defective core APU with Radeon HD 6000D and offer more affordable chips for those wishing to assemble a system based on discrete graphics. A similar scenario is developed and the platform Socket FM2 (Virgo).
Employees portal CPU-World.com found on the official website of GIGABYTE Technology mention Athlon X4 processors in the performance of Socket FM2. Description Motherboard GA-F2A75M-D3H, the culprits of this event can be found here.
Very soon the line of desktop graphics cards GeForce 600 will be full. Today will be announced on the video card GeForce GTX 660/GTX 650 , will become their recommended price and receive the first reviews of new products . models to fill the GeForce 600 will comply with accelerators Radeon HD 7000. Meanwhile, according to the website VideoCardz.com , AMD has planned a small reduced prices on some models in the Radeon HD 7000.
As you know, after the purchase of SeaMicro has developed a very interesting situation: AMD partnered its core and uncompromising competitor, Intel – high-density server SeaMicro with optical communications technology are going mostly on chips Atom.
At the end of last year, AMD announced its decision to release the RAM modules under its own brand. The first products were released AMD Memory in August last year for OEM-manufacturers. The company then decided to present the products targeted at consumers. In the beginning, it was announced the imminent launch of sales of the three lines of memory: Entertainment, Performance and Radeon Edition, which differ in the nominal frequency, and target different groups of users.