Laptop CPUs, especially for high-performance computers used in gaming and content creation, have long been the domain of Intel. Rival AMD is aiming to change that. AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa… Read More
After spending billions over the last few years to upgrade its cloud computing infrastructure, Google thinks it is ready to tackle the needs of some of the most demanding customers… Read More
LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows that there haven’t been a lot of options when putting… Read More
LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale on the cloud, Amazon Web Services just went ahead and… Read More
Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for data center chips, and the company now counts one of… Read More
That didn’t take long: the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters to the CEOs of six companies involved in the effort… Read More
Microsoft has temporarily stopped distributing patches to computers and devices running AMD processors after acknowledging that its Windows security updates for the vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre left some… Read More
Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce Wednesday that it will distribute $258 million in funding… Read More
Virtual reality games and experiences were everywhere at PAX West this year, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what the medium can do, a panel of VR experts said… Read More
We knew Windows 10 was arriving this summer, but now there may be a more specific release date thanks to information from computer processor-maker AMD. In the company’s earnings call last week, AMD… Read More
Advanced Micro Devices is a 44-year-old Silicon Valley semiconductor giant, best known by the initials AMD. It’s the brand you see in marketing materials, and the stock symbol it uses… Read More
Chip maker AMD, holding its big software developer conference in Bellevue this week, announced a new partnership with ARM Holdings this morning that further aligns the behind-the-scenes technologies of the two… Read More
At a splashy launch event in Seattle tonight, chip-maker AMD introduced its new Accelerated Processing Units, or APUs, and brought out one of its most loyal customers to help make… Read More
Here’s one for the silicon geeks. At a conference in Bellevue this morning, AMD introduced its new Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing Units — new types of processors, known as APUs, that… Read More