The MD Series platform will offer processor technology from both Intel and AMD, including Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2 and AMD Turion X2 processors.
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Last month, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into whether Intel forced its customers to lock out rival AMD, mirroring a case filed by AMD against Intel in 2005 in a U.S. District Court in Delaware.
The interesting difference between Intel, AMD and ARM, though is not the clash of people that seems to colour the Intel, AMD relationship.
The whole lot can be selected with dual- or quad-core chips from AMD and Intel, while select configurations are equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce GT7XXM series or AMD's Radeon HD8750 discrete graphics.
Both of the leading chipmakers, AMD and Intel, recently launched the first consumer-grade 1-gig processors.
Of course, one must consider that AMD and Intel are both members of the not-for-profit group.
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This is a role reversal for AMD and Intel--last year, it was Intel that was rethinking its business.
Later this year: both AMD and Intel will introduce more powerful, expensive x86 processors built for bigger jobs.
While it has dominated the discrete graphics industry along with AMD, Intel is by far the leader in integrated graphics.
Likewise, the 24-inch all-in-one is now the All-in-One Touch, and it too will be available with AMD and Intel processors.
But until the performance benchmarking of actual, real-world AMD and Intel hardware begins, which design wins out is still anyone's call, Brookwood said.
If AMD gets Intel to court, odds would still be long that a PC executive would stick his neck out on this one.
While there are many competing processor designs, the only ones that really matter right now run the so-called x86 design AMD and Intel share.
For now, though, this seems like a fine piece of hardware, and we're glad to see Vizio and AMD giving Intel Atom chips a little much-needed competition.
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Now, the fight between AMD and Intel is entering a new phase, with both companies falling back on their wits in an effort to get the upper hand.
After a string of gains for AMD, Intel took 80.2% of the worldwide microprocessor market in the first quarter of this year, up 4.5% from 75.7% during the prior quarter, according to market researcher iSuppli.
Since then, Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini has taken the fight to AMD by focusing on the one spot where AMD had hurt it most: the so-called "x86" chips built by both Intel and AMD that power most of the world's PCs, servers and notebook computers.
Since then, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini has taken the fight to AMD by focusing on the one spot where AMD had hurt it most: the so-called "x86" chips built by both Intel and AMD that power most of the world's PCs, servers and notebook computers.
That could do more than just help Intel take business from rival AMD, which competes with Intel to build PC microprocessors.
Both will be available next month with a mix of 2013 AMD processors and Intel Haswell chips.
The good news: The bruising market share battle between AMD and rival Intel looks like it may be winding down.
But while AMD is fighting Intel on pricing now--and slashing its capital expenditures--it plans to continue cranking out new chips in the years ahead.
Intel, AMD charges, threatened to withhold vital price breaks on its processors to deny Intel rival business from big computer makers such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Although cutting costs may not make it easier for AMD to steal business from Intel in the future, it also means AMD may be able to run the business it does have more profitably.
At the hearing with the special master, AMD's lawyers said Intel employees with some of the best knowledge of the allegations in AMD's suit--including Otellini, Chairman CraigBarrettCraig Barrett and worldwide head of sales and marketing SeanMaloneySean Maloney--were not complying with directives to preserve their messages.
Now that AMD has managed to be more than just a thorn in Intel's side, and instead a valid and increasingly threatening competitor, we figured they'd lay off the immature Intel bashing, but AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, got a bit whiny the other day during a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
Intel and AMD are muscling it aside with all-in-one products that combine graphics with their microprocessors.
And neither Dell, HP nor Gateway allows owners to overclock the Intel or AMD microprocessor.
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