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AMD denies report it plans to sell off manufacturing operations {Engadget}
Jul 25th 2008 1:53AM He is probably referring to their 200mm fabs. It's incredibly expensive to build a new fab, but even more expensive to retool an existing fab to handle larger wafers. Most companies just build another fab and use the old one for low-end products, or in this case (maybe), sell it.
AMD says it'll detail its Atom-challenging plans in November {Engadget}
Jul 19th 2008 12:18AM It's called Fusion and it will involve both Bobcat, Bulldozer (next-gen desktop), and Stars (Phenom). As far as I know, the 1-10W TDP that is being tossed around for Bobcat includes the GPU that will be on the same chip. Note that this will increase speed (there is no bus the CPU and GPU have to connect through) and probably vastly simplify (or possibly eliminate) the northbridge.
Everyone talks about how Core 2 came out of nowhere and stomped AMD, but no one is talking about how R700 is doing the same thing now in the GPU market, only vice-versa. AMD/ATI were completely marginalized for a generation, only selling mid-range cards. Now they are back on top with a card that force Nvidia to cut prices. Nvidia is nearly as big of a company as AMD selling only video cards and chipsets, a competitive Radeon seems like it can only help AMD in the long run.
Hector Ruiz steps down as AMD CEO {Engadget}
Jul 17th 2008 6:25PM Sounds like some solid info, Carl.
NVIDIA said to be dropping GeForce GTX 280 price in response to AMD {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2008 5:29PM Hahah oh god I love AMD. The things they do for consumers. It doesn't even matter if they do it on purpose, but their whole existence in the CPU and GPU industry has spurred innovation and lowered prices.
Black Eee PC 901 looks good, just not $650 good {Engadget}
May 21st 2008 2:56AM Yeah, again, you guys completely misunderstood the "race to the bottom" comment. The Sony exec's point was that if everyone focuses on making low-cost computers, the high-end will stagnate and performance will ultimately suffer. I think Asus is just realizing that perhaps they sacrificed too much in trying to make a cheap laptop.
Black Eee PC 901 looks good, just not $650 good {Engadget}
May 21st 2008 2:52AM Just so you know, Amos & Andy was incredibly racist. Probably not the best reference to use.
