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AMD’s Chief Technology Officer Steps Down
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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When it rains, it pours in Sunnyvale, CA.
Just when you thought it could not get any worse for AMD, someone throws another gallon of gasoline on the fire to stoke the flames. Earlier this week, DailyTech reported that AMD intends to cut 1,600 jobs by […]
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NVIDIA Promises Powerful, Sub-$45 Processing Platform to Counter Intel
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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NVIDA looks to VIA for help with a new low-cost processing platform.
When it comes to new opportunities for growth in the PC industry, the common trend appears to be going downward instead of up. We first saw this with ASUS’ Eee PC notebook which starts at […]
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Yahoo lukewarm on Microsoft bid
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Internet search engine Yahoo says it is “not opposed” to Microsoft’s takeover bid, but wants a better price.
The letter from Yahoo’s board was a swift response to a deadline issued at the weekend by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to agree to the deal.
Microsoft warned if […]
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Details of AMD’s Manufacturing Plans Around the Corner
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by Tom Krazit
CNet.com - AMD could finally be getting ready to explain how it intends to build chips in the future, almost a year after dropping hints that it would revamp its manufacturing strategy.
Hans Mosesmann, an analyst with Raymond James, believes AMD is about to reveal a new manufacturing strategy that […]
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ASUS Reveals Eee PC Desktop Variant
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by Brandon Hill
DailyTech - The Asus Eee PC lineup expands to include a desktop model. DailyTech reported in late January that ASUS was hard at work on a desktop variant of its popular Eee PC sub-notebook. The original Eee PC turned out to be the surprise hit of 2007 and the company […]
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GeForce 9800GX2, 9800GTX Get the Greenlight
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by Kristopher Kubicki
DailyTech - NVIDIA’s high-end is more of the same, and that’s a good thing. The long awaited high-end successor to NVIDIA’s wildly popular GeForce 8800 series is almost upon us.
Those anticipating a new architecture, unfortunately, will have to sit this generation out. The core logic used in […]
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AMD Lineup for GPU, CPU and Notebook Platforms Revealed
By Monica Chen, Joseph Tsai
DigiTimes.com - AMD has recently notified its partners that the company expects its share in the discrete graphics card market to rise after its next generation RV770 GPU shows up in the end of the second quarter, growing from the current 35% to reach 50% by the end of this year, […]
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