Featuring the latest AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), the ThinkCentre M78 gives business professionals a reliable PC with powerful performance, a high level of security and energy efficiency.
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"The HP Pavilion TouchSmart Sleekbook is HP's most affordable touch-enabled system, perfect for Windows 8 users and with the performance of the AMD A-Series APU supporting an excellent overall experience, " said Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer PCs, Printing and Personal Systems, HP.
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European anti-trust authorities say Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) broke the rules in competing with Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people )--a move that throws a spotlight on business practices AMD has complained about for years and put at the core of an anti-trust lawsuit it filed against Intel in U.S. courts in 2005.
Founded by Jerry Sanders, a larger-than-life figure who mentored Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, AMD transformed itself from a me-too manufacturer of PC processors into a company with enough technical brilliance to force Intel to change its designs.
At the low-end, AMD announced Bobcat, a design for a low-power processor that can be used in consumer electronics devices.
So no surprise to find AMD coveting a cut of that turf too, with this, their new living room PC reference design -- a prototype AMD hopes will be copied by manufacturers to bring AMD's Live!
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On Thursday, AMD announced a first-quarter loss far wider than analyst expectations.
Towards the end of 2009, AMD had a head-start in the DirectX 11 desktop graphics market, which facilitated a gain in market share.
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New on that front is the company's just-announced ASM5800 (pictured above) and ASM3202 models, the former of which packs your choice of Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD Phenom II X4 processors, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, 750GB or 1TB hard drives, and ATI Radeon HD 4650 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 graphics, while the later is an AMD-only affair with a Phenom II X4 925 processor, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics, 2GB to 8GB of RAM, and a 640GB or 750GB hard drive.
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Spider is a step toward AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.
In the lucrative server-processor market, Barcelona, slated for introduction in August, may help AMD keep a grip on hard-won territory in corporate data centers.
At this juncture, we had to switch sources in order to get native 4K. This was served up by an ASUS gaming PC containing a Radeon HD 7970 -- AMD's flagship graphics card that can throw a 4K signal out of its HDMI 1.4 port.
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Eyetech shares soared last year based on the success of Macugen, a treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness.
Available in three different configurations, customers can choose a Mac mini with the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, or a quad-core Intel Core i7 powered server configuration.
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AMD, with a research-and-development budget less than 15% of Intel's, may actually be out-innovating it.
In September, AMD released a new four-core processor design, nicknamed Barcelona, that is getting strong reviews and commanding premium prices.
The system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each node containing an AMD 16-core Opteron and a NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerator.
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While AMD fought a successful three-year campaign to grab market share, Intel began hitting back last summer, overhauling its lineup of processors and slashing prices.
Tablets with AMD APUs can also leverage the AMD AppZone, a one-stop resource for accessing popular applications that can take advantage of the full compute capability of the processor.
Then it unveiled so-called Sleekbooks, which basically hold the same promise as Ultrabooks, except that for whatever reason (AMD processors, a too-thick chassis) they don't meet Intel's official Ultrabook requirements.
Officially announced Tuesday--and the subject of rather rampant speculation and rumor for more than a month--AMD is taking direct aim at the clock speeds of chips produced by nemesis Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) by trying to fight against years of marketing inertia.
Spider is a step toward AMD's (nyse: AMD - news - people ) goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.
Subtract a one-time charge related to its acquisition of graphics chip specialist ATI, and AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share during its March quarter, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share--even after AMD had guided estimates lower not once but twice over the preceding quarter.
Additionally, the new line-up of Opteron chips based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture further strengthens AMD?s ability to offer greater choices to a data-starved base of enterprises and growing cloud customers.
The AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series features AMD Enduro Technology, a cutting-edge power-saving solution that scales GPU usage and power based on graphics demand.
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Backing out one-time charges, AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share.
The AMD Embedded G-Series APU provides a small, open and flexible platform where system designers can be creative yet still meet strict requirements around development cost.
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For example, AMD currently trades for a price-to-sales per share of 1.00x which is on the low end of the historically normal range of .75x to 2.27x for this valuation metric.
Intel's processors deliver better performance without increasing their consumption of power, all else being equal--a trick Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) isn't expected to master until later this year.
The former comes equipped with a 15.4-inch display, an AMD Turion TL-60 CPU, ATI Radeon HD x1270 graphics, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11g, and HDMI.
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