Additional models will be available in July and will include TV tuners and faster AMD processors.
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Both will be available next month with a mix of 2013 AMD processors and Intel Haswell chips.
One was equipped with AMD processors, another with wares from Intel.
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.
There are interesting battles brewing on whether the tablets will be powered by ARM, Intel or AMD processors and whether the operating system will be Apple iOS, Google Android or Microsoft Windows.
And mind you, we're using the word "ultraportables" very deliberately here: in addition to Ultrabooks, HP is selling so-called Sleekbooks -- lightweight machines that, for whatever reason (thickness, AMD processors), don't fit Intel's definition of an Ultrabook.
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Intel also faces a U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices in 2005, claiming that Intel had forced PC makers to boycott AMD, "threatened retaliation" against customers using or selling AMD processors and offered rebates to customers designed to block the purchase of AMD's products.
Intel also faces a U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) in 2005, claiming that Intel had forced PC makers to boycott AMD, "threatened retaliation" against customers using or selling AMD processors and offered rebates to customers designed to block the purchase of AMD's products.
Though both models will be offered with AMD Trinity processors only, the TouchSmart starts with an AMD A8 chip and 6GB of RAM, while the non-touch version starts with an A6 APU and four gigs of memory.
AMD's processors have traditionally been most popular among consumers, while business buyers have tended to go with Intel-based systems.
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.
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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AMD's processors have always done well in integer performance, which is important for common business tasks, but have lagged in floating-point performance, which counts most in elaborate financial models, engineering, and games.
As a result, AMD is selling fewer processors, and making less money on the processors it does sell.
The ZX4300 line sees the addition of AMD Athlon II X2 processors and other powerful desktop components, making it one of the best performing all-in-ones in its price range.
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Dell is also reportedly prepping the Latitude D531 and D631, which feature similar specs to those of the D630, but run AMD Turion 64 X2 processors and integrated ATI Radeon X1270 graphics.
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While Intel has an edge in process technology, building chips with features just 45 nanometers wide, John Fruehe, worldwide business development manager at AMD asserted that AMD's server processors performed better, despite the gap.
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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Leading OEMs are now offering cloud, enterprise and HPC customers a full suite of solutions based on the industry's most comprehensive server processor portfolio, the new AMD Opteron family of processors which deliver an inspired balance of performance, scalability and efficiency.
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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.
This in turn made it harder for them to use processors made by AMD.
Intel is going to make its own graphics product out of its general-purpose processors, and amd will seek to fold sophisticated graphics capabilities into its CPUs, stealing business that would otherwise have gone Huang's way.
The device will also apparently come in a couple of different models, each boasting a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, a full QWERTY keypad, AMD LX900 or LX800 Geode processors, 30GB or 60GB hard drives (with a 6GB SSD drive an option on some models), and a promised 7 hours of battery life (or 11-12 hours with the optional expanded battery).
Unlike Intel, AMD outsources the production of its processors to TSMC and GlobalFoundries.
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It is most clearly identified with x86 processors from Intel and AMD and the Windows operating system from Microsoft.
The new version of Windows will work with processors based on the ARM architecture from Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments, in addition to x86 processors from Intel and AMD.
Now that AMD's fresh new FX processors based on the Piledriver architecture are out in the wild, the specialist hardware sites have seen fit to benchmark the top-lining FX-8350.
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The AMD SeaMicro Freedom Fabric design separates processors, storage, and data center network access from each other within their 10U chassis, so that each component can be replaced and updated on different schedules.
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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.
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